TY - CHAP AU - Cointault Frédéric AU - Journaux Ludovic AU - Rabatel Gilles AU - Germain Christian AU - Ooms David AU - Destain Marie-France AU - Gorretta Nathalie AU - Grenier Gilbert AU - Lavialle Olivier AU - Marin Ambroise ED - Godwin Aflakpui Y1 - 2012-04-27 PY - 2012 T1 - Texture, Color and Frequential Proxy-Detection Image Processing for Crop Characterization in a Context of Precision Agriculture N2 - This book covers key areas in agricultural science, namely crop improvement, production, response to water, nutrients, and temperature, crop protection, agriculture and human health, and animal nutrition. The contributions by the authors include manipulation of the variables and genetic resources of inheritance of quantitative genes, crop rotation, soil water and nitrogen, and effect of temperature on flowering. The rest are protecting crops against insect pests and diseases, linking agriculture landscape to recreation by humans, and small ruminant nutrition. This book is a valuable addition to the existing knowledge and is especially intended for university students and all professionals in the field of agriculture. BT - Agricultural Science SP - Ch. 4 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/36674 DO - 10.5772/36674 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-10 ER -