Symposium
Current and future perspectives of drones in agriculture
In this symposium, we want to provide an overview of current progress in drone systems, methods and modelling approaches to support the development of sustainable agricultural systems. The use of drones allows to explore the increasing spatial detail in imagery to characterize crop growth and productivity up to the plant level. Still analysis approaches need to be developed that combine time-series data from multiple sensors to derive quantitative crop stress maps. Examples from precision agriculture and crop breeding will be provided. We hope this symposium will provide input for the discussion on the link between remote sensing and crop and plant sciences and the identification of future research priorities.
The workshop takes place after the PhD thesis defense of Chenglong Zhang entitled “Crop load estimation in orchards: the potential of single RGB images from unmanned aerial vehicles”. You are also invited to attend the public defense of his thesis at 11:00 in the Aula.
| Time | Subject | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Opening | Prof. Dr. Lammert Kooistra, Wageningen University |
| 14:10 | Phenotyping our future crops: in-field, non-destructive, high-throughput phenotyping of above- and below-ground plant traits | Dr. Peter Lootens, Institute for Agricultural, Fisheries and Food Research, Belgium |
| 14:40 | Opportunities and challenges of UAV and satellite images for estimating and monitoring the nutritional quality of crops | Dr. Mariana Belgiu, University of Twente, the Netherlands |
| 15:10 | Use of drones for canopy characterization and pesticide spraying in precision agriculture | Dr. Alexandre Escolà Agustí, Universitat de Lleida, Spain |
| 15:40 | Discussion, followed by drinks |
Participation is free of charge. For registration, please send an email to Lammert.Kooistra@wur.nl.
We are looking forward for your participation!