Design and Development of Sapling Monitoring System
Ramandeep Kaur, Balwinder Singh · International Journal of Computer Science Engineering and Applications · 2013
The measurement of a plant growth without interrupting its natural growth is essential since its diameter and height are related to the development of a tree as well as the water contents.Therefore main objective of this project is to find the diameter and height of a plant.Hence in this proposed work, an interface between a C3008 smart camera and a computer has been developed.Main advantage of this camera module is that it has digital output and digital video port that supplies a continuous 8-16 bit range of data stream.It is used to capture the image of a plant at different intervals of time.A MATLAB GUI has been developed for performing Sobel Edge Detection on a plant image to determine its height, maximum and minimum width.Such programs enable us to automatically measure and record the various parameters of a plant.The results attained prove that the system is capable of measuring the changes (diameter and height changes) of plant's growth accurately.