Title :
Low cost image acquisition system for field monitoring
Author :
Ito, Ryoei ; Yamaguchi, Chiaki
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Bioresouces, Mie Univ., Tsu, Japan
Abstract :
Image capturing on-site is supply many useful information for understanding and analyzing agricultural or environmental issues. In this study, a low cost image acquisition system was developed for real-time field monitoring. USB Webcams and Digital Compact Cameras were used as capturing device and they were controlled by Linux boxes. The system with a USB Webcam operated stably during six months field experiment including summer. It also succeeded to acquire high quality images with resolution of more than several million pixels. In addition, total cost of the system was as inexpensive as less than 3 or 4 hundred US dollars. These results indicated the applicability of this system in field image monitoring.
Keywords :
Linux; agriculture; cameras; image resolution; image sensors; Linux box; USB Webcam; agricultural issues; digital compact camera; environmental issues; image capture; image resolution; low cost image acquisition system; real-time field monitoring; Cameras; Image resolution; Linux; Monitoring; Pixel; Servers; Universal Serial Bus; Digital Compact Camera; Linux; USB Webcam; field monitoring; image capture; sensor netowrk;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference 2010, Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7642-8
