Agriculture provides humanity with food, fibers, fuel, and raw materials that are paramount
for human livelihood. Today, this role must be satisfied within a context of environmental …

Crop yields need to be improved in a sustainable manner to meet the expected worldwide
increase in population over the coming decades as well as the effects of anticipated climate …

Satellite based remote sensing offers one of the few approaches able to monitor the spatial
and temporal development of regional to continental scale droughts. A unique element of …

Plant phenomics is a new avenue for linking plant genomics and environmental studies,
thereby improving plant breeding and management. Remote sensing techniques have …

Crop improvement efforts are targeting increased above-ground biomass and radiation-use
efficiency as drivers for greater yield. Early ground cover and canopy height contribute to …

Plant phenotyping forms the core of crop breeding, allowing breeders to build on
physiological traits and mechanistic science to inform their selection of material for crossing …

Phenotyping of crops is important due to increasing pressure on food production. Therefore,
an accurate estimation of biomass during the growing season can be important to optimize …

Manual assessments of plant phenotypes in the field can be labor-intensive and inefficient.
The high-throughput field phenotyping systems and in particular robotic systems play an …

Plant phenomics (PP) has been recognized as a bottleneck in studying the interactions of
genomics and environment on plants, limiting the progress of smart breeding and precise …

The study of phenomes or phenomics has been a central part of biology. The field of
automatic phenotype acquisition technologies based on images has seen an important …