Orchard management with small unmanned aerial vehicles: A survey of sensing and analysis approaches

C Zhang, J Valente, L Kooistra, L Guo, W Wang - Precision agriculture, 2021 - Springer
Advances in sensor miniaturization are increasing the global popularity of unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing applications in many domains of agriculture. Fruit …

Quality of olives: A focus on agricultural preharvest factors

L Rallo, CM Díez, A Morales-Sillero, H Miho… - Scientia horticulturae, 2018 - Elsevier
More than 11 million ha of olives (Olea europaea L.) are currently grown worldwide, 98% of
which are localized in the Mediterranean Basin, with olives being one of the most important …

Quantifying pruning impacts on olive tree architecture and annual canopy growth by using UAV-based 3D modelling

FM Jiménez-Brenes, F López-Granados, AI De Castro… - Plant methods, 2017 - Springer
Background Tree pruning is a costly practice with important implications for crop harvest and
nutrition, pest and disease control, soil protection and irrigation strategies. Investigations on …

Harvesting system sustainability in Mediterranean olive cultivation

B Bernardi, G Falcone, T Stillitano, S Benalia… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
The mechanization of farming operation plays an important role in improving the profitability
of the agricultural sector by increasing work productivity and reducing production costs …

Pomelo tree detection method based on attention mechanism and cross-layer feature fusion

H Yuan, K Huang, C Ren, Y Xiong, J Duan, Z Yang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Deep learning is the subject of increasing research for fruit tree detection. Previously
developed deep-learning-based models are either too large to perform real-time tasks or too …

Optimising the efficiency of olive harvesting considering operator safety

G Aiello, M Vallone, P Catania - Biosystems Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•SHAVE system used to evaluate the vibration dose received by the worker.•The
vibration dose accumulated by the operator can be seen as a safety dose budget.•The …

Relationship between Height and Exposure in Multispectral Vegetation Index Response and Product Characteristics in a Traditional Olive Orchard

C Perna, A Pagliai, R Lisci, R Pinhero Amantea, M Vieri… - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
The present research had two aims. The first was to evaluate the effect of height and
exposure on the vegetative response of olive canopies' vertical axis studied through a …

Mechanical canopy and trunk shaking for the harvesting mechanization of table olive orchards

RR Sola-Guirado, FJ Castillo-Ruiz… - Revista de la …, 2020 - revistas.uncu.edu.ar
Table olive harvesting is highly dependent on manual labour and may jeopardize the crop
benefit. The introduction of a mechanical harvest system requires a global evaluation of the …

Influence of fruit canopy position and maturity on yield determinants and chemical composition of virgin olive oil

F Grilo, T Caruso, SC Wang - Journal of the Science of Food …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND While both maturity and light exposure are important factors determining
olive fruit physiology, the relationship between maturity, canopy position and optimal …

Using drone technology for fruit orchard management and waste reduction

S Suryawanshi, T Baraskar, K Umbrani… - 2022 6th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Developments in scaling down the size of sensors are expanding the worldwide fame of
robotic distant tracking use cases in numerous areas of farming. Fruit plantations require …