A Realtime Spatiotemporal Data Acquisition System for Precision Agriculture

Abstract

A real-time data acquisition system for precision agricultural is presented. Using the system, the spatiotemporal data for the specific local area can be collected at small expense. A hardware frame is designed to take synchronized multi-view images of the target plants as well as environmental data. To monitor the growth of plants or crops, set of images are taken periodically and a multi-view stereo technique is adopted to build a 3-D model to represent the target plant. For real-time monitoring an application running on the Android platform is developed also.