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Development of a Low-Cost Optical System for Monitoring Plastics in Irrigation System Grids

Authors:
Daniel A. Basterrechea
Sandra Sendra
Lorena Parra
Jaime Lloret

Keywords: Optical system; plastic monitoring; irrigation system; image processing, RGB.

Abstract:
The plastics incorporated into the irrigation channel of agricultural plots is a major problem due to the outline produced by these in the gratings present in these systems. In this article, we present a low-cost system based on artificial intelligence to monitor the presence of plastics in the gratings of agricultural irrigation channels. For this purpose, an experiment has been carried out using a fish tank, where a grid with bag sections has been placed. Different photographs were taken at 10 cm from the camera, with 0 g, 5 g and 10 g of soil added. Once the images were obtained, the Matlab programme was used to process them and obtain histograms of the red, green, and blue bands. The best results are shown in the image with 0 g of soil and 5 g of soil. The verification carried out with 0 g of turbidity shows that the % of pixel number of the grids are above the limit of 5%, the maximum value for the grids is 84.08%, being the percentage of pixel number of the bags below this limit with a maximum value of 0.09%.

Pages: 20 to 25

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: May 30, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-853-2

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from May 30, 2021 to June 3, 2021