TY - GEN
T1 - Design of an Android-based remotely-Accessible system to detect ripeness of dates in palm trees
AU - Jamil, Tariq
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work has been done as a senior-year project by three students: Manal Al-Maawali, Shaimaa Al-Shehhi, and Kaltham Al-Sarkhi, supervised by the author and Hassan Yousef. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman for the purchase of various components needed for this project.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Date palm trees are commonly found in the Middle Eastern region. The dates become ripe on these trees during the summer season. Monitoring the ripeness of these trees is an essential process to ensure good production of dates so that the farmer can derive maximum profit from his cultivation. It is easy to monitor the ripeness of dates with a naked eye when palm trees are fewer in number and short in height. However, a palm tree can become as tall as 75 feet (23 meters) and it becomes difficult to monitor the ripeness of such tall trees while at the ground-level, especially if there are several hundreds of these trees located in a farm. Manual method of climbing date palms using leather belts to detect the ripeness of dates is very dangerous because some palms may have thin and damaged trunks and the climber may fall to the ground from some height. In this paper, design of a drone-based system which can detect and monitor the ripeness of date palms by analyzing the images taken by a drone has been presented. The system can alert the farmer about the ripeness of dates through an Android-based App developed specifically for this purpose.
AB - Date palm trees are commonly found in the Middle Eastern region. The dates become ripe on these trees during the summer season. Monitoring the ripeness of these trees is an essential process to ensure good production of dates so that the farmer can derive maximum profit from his cultivation. It is easy to monitor the ripeness of dates with a naked eye when palm trees are fewer in number and short in height. However, a palm tree can become as tall as 75 feet (23 meters) and it becomes difficult to monitor the ripeness of such tall trees while at the ground-level, especially if there are several hundreds of these trees located in a farm. Manual method of climbing date palms using leather belts to detect the ripeness of dates is very dangerous because some palms may have thin and damaged trunks and the climber may fall to the ground from some height. In this paper, design of a drone-based system which can detect and monitor the ripeness of date palms by analyzing the images taken by a drone has been presented. The system can alert the farmer about the ripeness of dates through an Android-based App developed specifically for this purpose.
KW - android
KW - dates
KW - drone
KW - palm tree
KW - ripeness
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U2 - 10.1109/ICEET56468.2022.10007324
DO - 10.1109/ICEET56468.2022.10007324
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85146856622
T3 - 8th International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies, ICEET 2022
BT - 8th International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies, ICEET 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 8th International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies, ICEET 2022
Y2 - 27 October 2022 through 28 October 2022
ER -