Chapter 3

Discrimination between weed and crop via image analysis using machine learning algorithm

P. Amsini and R. Uma Rani

sri sarada college for women (autonomous)

3.1   Introduction

The agriculture field is working to save our environment by making certain exceptional changes in its practices to secure crop production. This approach is totally based on technology which can support soil preparation, planting and weed eliminating process. The most vital problems surface due to weeds which increase the biological competition with existing crop such as excess use of fertilizer, water and manual working hours. Manual work of weed inspection and removal takes a longer time. However, robotic applications are able to perform weed detection in excellent ...

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