sensor data

Bhadra, Sourav, Vasit Sagan, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Matthew Maimaitiyiming, Maria Newcomb, Nadia Shakoor, and Todd C. Mockler. "Quantifying leaf chlorophyll concentration of sorghum from hyperspectral data using derivative calculus and machine learning." Remote Sensing 12, no. 13 (2020): 2082. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/13/2082

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 (cultivar) is in a particular image.

The Sorghum-100 dataset was used in the Sorghum-100 Kaggle competition, which explains:

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.   

Herritt, M.T., Pauli, D., Mockler, T.C. et al. Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging captures photochemical efficiency of grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in a field setting. Plant Methods 16, 109 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-020-00650-0

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 Phenotyping and Agriculture, which will be held Oct 11 at ICCV 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 calibration, reflectance calculation, bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) correction, soil and shadow masking, and image quality assessment.  This was a true tour de force!

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".

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 of this technology, especially for precision agriculture and plant phenotyping. There are several thermal camera systems in the market becoming more available at a low cost. However, their efficacy and accuracy in various applications has not been tested.

The Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture Phenotyping Reference Platform (TERRA-REF) provides a data and computation pipeline responsible for collecting, transferring, processing and distributing large volumes of crop sensing and genomic data from genetically informative germplasm sets. The primary source of these data is a field scanner system built over an experimental field at the University of Arizona Maricopa Agricultural Center.