Abstract
Application of still picture communication systems for agricultural production will bring such many advantages as labor saving for maintenance, progress of production technique and profitable shipping control of products. And by connecting these systems with computer technique for information processing, they will have great possibilities to create total expert systems for operational and technical consulting and automatic sensing and control of plant states, based on various types of information such like picture and letters sending from remote station on the process of agricultural production. These line of research have just started. In this paper, a computer system for analyzing vegetable pictures received at regular interval through telephone line by making use of the still picture communication systems was built up, and a possibility of growth analysis was examined by simply processing these pictures. These possibility seemed to be confirmed, even though these pictures were received on the basis of short term cultivation tests.
