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UAV-Based high resolution thermal imaging for vegetation monitoring and plant phenotyping using ICI 8640 P, FLIR Vue Pro R 640 and thermoMap Cameras

Feb 7, 2019

The growing popularity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in recent years, along with decreased cost and more accessibility of both UAVs and thermal imaging sensors, has led to the widespread usage...

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Rising from the flat desert south of Phoenix is a 50-foot-tall robot that feeds crop data back to the Midwest.

Bringing the largest crop robot to ground level

Oct 3, 2018

MARICOPA, Ariz. — Rising from the flat desert south of Phoenix is a 50-foot-tall robot that feeds crop data back to the Midwest. It’s in St. Louis at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center that...

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Figures from manuscript: 1. Field Scanalyzer System operating in Maricopa, Arizona. 2 data flow and processing diagram. 3 field level mosaic from RGB camera. 4 table of sensors. 5 databases and interfaces 6 data analysis workbench

TERRA-REF Data Processing Infrastructure

Jul 22, 2018

The Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture Phenotyping Reference Platform (TERRA-REF) provides a data and computation pipeline responsible for collecting, transferring, processing...

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Histograms for NDVI-UAV-Sequoia

Comparative Aerial and Ground Based High Throughput Phenotyping for the Genetic Dissection of NDVI as a Proxy for Drought Adaptive Traits in Durum Wheat

Jun 26, 2018

High-throughput phenotyping platforms (HTPPs) provide novel opportunities to more effectively dissect the genetic basis of drought-adaptive traits. This genome-wide association study (GWAS) compares...

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Crops get the high tech treatment with the world’s largest robotic field scanner is operational at the University of Arizona's Maricopa Agricultural Center (MAC).

AgTech Flexes Its Humanitarian Side

Jan 26, 2017

At the very heart of agriculture is the drive to feed the world. AgTech is enabling farmers to do this more efficiently and effectively than ever, and major investors are watching closely.

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sweet sorghum

Danforth Center receives sorghum research grant

Jan 26, 2017

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI — The Bill...

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David LeBauer working with seedlings

Sorghum Under the Microscope

Jan 25, 2017

The TERRA project proves how collaboration can lead to great things. WHAT’S HAPPENING ON a one-acre plot in Arizona is on track to transform the world of plant science, ushering in a new era of...

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A sorghum plant

Danforth Center Expands Major Research Program to Benefit Farmers in the Developing World

Jan 25, 2017

ST. LOUIS, MO, January 25, 2017 – The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world's largest independent plant science institutes, today announced a three-year $6.1 million grant from the...

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A Field of Sorghum

DOE awards $13.5 million to enhance sorghum for biofuel

Dec 28, 2016

The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center announced that it will be part of a major collaborative research project to improve sorghum's productivity under resource-limited conditions. The research...

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A giant electronic scanner in Maricopa, Arizona

A Giant Crop-scanner is Turning Heads in Arizona

Oct 11, 2016

With its 30-ton frame and 50-foot-high catwalk, the newest scanner for measuring crop plants in Maricopa, Arizona, can be seen for miles. It looms over a tract the length of two football fields and...

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