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TERRA REF inspired artwork!

Dec 17, 2021

TERRA REF has enabled advances in research and engineering. Now, we can add art to the list. A new series of artwork by inspired by Chen Wang inspired by a variety of projects at the National...

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examples of TERRA REF image, point cloud, and hyperspectral data

What Does TERRA-REF's High Resolution, Multi Sensor Plant Sensing Public Domain Data Offer the Computer Vision Community?

Oct 11, 2021

Our paper "What Does TERRA-REF's High Resolution, Multi Sensor Plant Sensing Public Domain Data Offer the Computer Vision Community?" was accepted for the 7th workshop on Computer Vision in Plant...

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Overall workflow of hyperspectral imagery processing pipeline.

Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence for Calibration of Hyperspectral Big Data

Jul 15, 2021

This paper describes the pipeline used to produce calibrated hyperspectral images from the two hyperspectral cameras deployed under field conditions. The pipeline implements radiometric...

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Multiple images from the dataset representing different cultivars. The rows represent different culitvars. The columns represent different captured dates respectively: June 1st, 3rd, 7th, 17th, 19th and 27th, 2017.

Multi-Resolution Outlier Pooling for Sorghum Classification

Jun 19, 2021

This paper introduces the Sorghum-100 dataset, a large dataset of RGB imagery captured by the TERRA-REF field scanner as well as a new and more powerful approach to identifying which plant variety (...

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First release of TERRA REF data to public domain

Aug 19, 2020

    Data From: TERRA-REF, An Open Reference Data Set From High Resolution Genomics, Phenomics, and Imaging Sensors David S. LeBauer1 Maxwell A. Burnette2 Jeffrey...

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Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging captures photochemical efficiency of grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in a field setting

Aug 10, 2020

Herritt et al 2020 demonstrate the PSII camera's ability to capture PSII fluorescence by treating leaves with a chemical that inhibits photosynthesis (DMCU) and observing differences.  ...

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Overall workflow of the feature extraction, feature selection, and modeling pipeline

Quantifying Leaf Chlorophyll Concentration of Sorghum from Hyperspectral Data Using Derivative Calculus and Machine Learning

Jun 29, 2020

Bhadra, Sourav, Vasit Sagan, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Matthew Maimaitiyiming, Maria Newcomb, Nadia Shakoor, and Todd C. Mockler. "Quantifying leaf chlorophyll concentration of sorghum from...

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New Video Tutorials for Accessing TERRA REF Data

Oct 11, 2019

Kristina has begun publishing new videos on the TERRA REF YouTube channel that demonstrate how to access and use some key TERRA REF datasets. Because of the diversity and size of...

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Figure 1: Each subfigure shows the original image over the color-corrected image, and the masks derived from each.

Learning to Correct for Bad Camera Settings in Large Scale Plant Monitoring

Jun 18, 2019

Zongyang presented his research and implementation on an algorithm to correct image exposure at the CVPR 2019 workshop on "Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping". Abstract: In large scale...

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TERRA-REF Projects Proposed to Google Season of Docs

Apr 22, 2019

Update 05/01: TERRA REF was not selected for the inaugural season of docs, but we plan to re-apply next year. But check out the impressive list of organizations who will be participating in...

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