Could Saffron Help Vermont Farmers?
Erik Van Lennep (Sat, 14 Jan 2017 08:19:07 PST)
Hmmm. I have different perspective on this, Sure, go ahead and see what's
possible in east coast cultivation (I think the UK during a drier period
also produced saffron commercially....but they probably didn't pay the
pickers well, employed children, etc).
I'll continue to treasure and savor it, indulging when I can justify it for
particular dishes. But I'll also continue to buy it from the countries
where people have a hard enough time making a living, are continuing a
millennia-old tradition, and the saffron cultivation provides a viable
alternative to opium production. I see this as the upside to global
sourcing, my purchases going to support the sort of world I want to live in.
Here's a thorough article on saffron as a medicinal, a dye, and an
antidepressant drug. Maybe more than some need to know, but great fodder
for plant geeks like me :)
http://itmonline.org/articles/saffron/…
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On 14 January 2017 at 09:33, Garak <garak@code-garak.de> wrote:
Sounds like a working solution to me - you could start with something like
this weeding robot http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-13096/ , it has
the camera and the labview-based tools already included... though actually
i'd expect your President to be may just choose the low-tech method and
raise the import taxes on saffron.
Am 13.01.2017 um 23:26 schrieb Tim Eck:
It's like regular image analysis except instead of using brightness for
the
basic contrast method, you can use the hue, saturation, and intensity
breakdown of the color image. In this system hue is the basic color,
while
saturation is the amount the color is diluted, and intensity is whether it
is diluted by white- gray- black. Using this method, your robot would
grab
anything blue - violet in hue, avoiding green, and the sorter would grab
anything orange-red.
Tim
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Hue base image processing? Wow.
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