Precision herbicide drones launch strikes on weeds

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2924, 2013, pág. 19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Unleash the robot weedkillers. A drone zipping overfields in Denmark can spot the tiny color variations that give away the presence of weeds in amongst the crops. Logging the coordinates, it can then send a ground vehicle in to spray the densest patches, reducing the need to spray whole fields. This is the ASETA project, led by Anders La Cour-Harbo of Aalborg University in Denmark. It aims to reduce herbicide use by concentrating weedkiller only in places where it is needed most.