%0 Journal Article %T A method to estimate plant density and plant spacing heterogeneity: application to wheat crops %A Alexis Comar %A Bruno Andrieu %A Denis Allard %A Fred Baret %A Matthieu Hemmerl¨¦ %A Philippe Burger %A Shouyang Liu %A Xiuliang Jin %J Archive of "Plant Methods". %D 2017 %R 10.1186/s13007-017-0187-1 %X Plant density and its non-uniformity drive the competition among plants as well as with weeds. They need thus to be estimated with small uncertainties accuracy. An optimal sampling method is proposed to estimate the plant density in wheat crops from plant counting and reach a given precision %K Wheat %K Gamma-count model %K Density %K RGB imagery %K Sampling strategy %K Plant spacing heterogeneity %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436426/