Garford will show a new advanced vision guidance system at LAMMA next week. Also on the stand will be electrical weeding technology and a flexible hooded sprayer. All are commercially available for this season.
Robocrop AI uses artificial intelligence to combine colour, infrared and depth information to precisely identify crop plants and stem location. The multi-modal camera system uses infrared cameras, as well as a colour camera, plus depth imaging and calculates vegetative index.
Using data fusion techniques, the system accurately detects stem locations, even where multiple leaves overlap. This allows hoeing closer to the crop and new levels of resilience to varying light conditions and weed pressure.
Garford will also show the results of its agreement with electrical weeding manufacturer RootWave to co-develop new weeding technology and products, integrating electrical weeding into precision guided toolbar systems, for high-value and high-intensive crops as well as broadacre arable applications.
The Flexi Hood flexible hooded sprayer concept incorporates floating side shields to allow for narrower passes with greater clearance between the hoods for the crop to go through, offering opportunities in crops from saplings and root crops to fresh produce, salads and herbs and even bulbs.
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