Spot spraying isn’t a new idea, and the equipment capable of performing selective applications has been around for decades.
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“It’s a pretty well-oiled machine ... especially for spot spraying and targeting fields in less-than-ideal conditions, weed scientists are buzzing with more caution.

These can range from small back-pack mounted apparatus, to gigantic self-propelled machines with 50-meter-wide booms that can spray 10,000 liters of anti-weed agents in a single day. Recent ...

That's the summary from a recently published research article in Weed Technology ... researchers used John Deere's See & Spray Technology to compare machine-vision targeted spray technology ...

Whereas See & Spray Select and See & Spray ... multiple images captured by the cameras and with a machine learning model areas are diferentiated to be weed or crop. Detected weeds send a command ...