Feasibility study of utilising electronic nose to detect BSR disease in oil palm plantation

• Main Author: Marni Azira, Markom
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2010
• Subjects: Basal stem rot (BSR); Electronic nose; Odour; Plant disease; Oil palm industry; Artificial neural networks (ANN); Ganoderma boninense
• Online Access: http://dspace.unimap.edu.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/9876

The agricultural industry has been, for a long time, dependent upon human expertise to detect plant disease. However, human experts may take years of training and can be inconsistent, as well as prone to fatigue. Presented in this thesis is the work conducted on utilising electronic nose incorpo...