Spray drift assessment encompasses classification of the capacity of each sprayer/technology/setting combination to reduce or avoid the spray drift risk, as well as drift …
This study's objective was to evaluate the functionality of an ad hoc test bench for spray drift measurement with boom sprayers, using it for evaluating different nozzles according to drift …
P Balsari, E Gil, P Marucco, JC van de Zande… - Biosystems …, 2017 - Elsevier
Because of variations in environmental conditions, spray-drift field measurements following ISO 22866: 2005 involve complicated and time-consuming experiments often with low …
Q Xiao, F Xin, Z Lou, T Zhou, G Wang, X Han, Y Lan… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Defoliant spraying is an important aspect of mechanized cotton harvesting. Fully and uniformly spraying defoliant could improve the quality of defoliation and reduce the impurity …
The spray is the primary method to apply pesticides to the crops. To provide enough coverage and deposition on target surfaces, the drop size produced during spray application …
The use of a scanning Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system to characterize drift during pesticide application is described. The LIDAR system is compared with an ad hoc test …
S Wongsuk, Z Zhu, A Zheng, P Qi, Y Li… - Pest Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND The unmanned aerial spraying systems (UASS) have gained widespread use for plant protection in recent years. However, spray drift from UASS is a major concern …
M Grella, P Marucco, P Balsari - Pest management science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Drift is one of the most important issues to consider for realising sustainable pesticide sprays. This study proposes an alternative indirect methodology for …
The aim of this work was to evaluate spray deposition and losses to the soil in a greenhouse tomato crop during the use of a manually pulled trolley, equipped with two vertical spray …