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de W. MacCarthy de la University of Southern Queensland
Faculty of Health, Engineering & Sciences

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Precision spraying platforms are available in agriculture which detect weeds in real time
and activate nozzle solenoids to deliver chemicals to the weed. Precision spraying, therefore,
targets only weeds and results in herbicide saving and a decrease in herbicide resistance.
In theory this is impressive, however, adoption of this technology has been
poor throughout the agricultural industry due to the large capital expenses required to
purchase the systems and fear of change with no guarantee of the kill rate. There is
no quantitative data that provides proof on the accuracy of any weed detection system
commercially available. Therefore, this project aims to develop hardware and associated
software to form the basis of a standardised test procedure for evaluating weed detection
systems.