Automated Fruit Counting in Orchards: A Benchmark Under Occlusion and Variable Illumination
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22665025Keywords:
Automated Fruit Counting in Orchards; Agro-informatics; Precision agriculture; Evidence synthesis; On-farm technologyAbstract
Automated Fruit Counting in Orchards has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working farm can actually use, but
the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current evidence for automated fruit counting in orchards,
covering the methodological, practical, governance and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and
where farms and advisors are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported
by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance
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