An image classification algorithm was developed to estimate the soil cover based on artificial neural networks (ANN) trained by back-propagation algorithm. The learning data sets were obtained from digital normalized images. Five ANN architectures of the type 25-n1-n2-2 were tested. The architecture 25-20-10-2 presented the best result and therefore, it was used in the image classification program. The classification presented an overall accuracy of 82.10%. This result shows that ANN may be applied for separating features when the pixel brightness does not provide enough information to apply the threshold technique.
machine vision; no-tillage; image processing
