Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production
Food, feed, fiber, and fuel: Crop farming plays an essential role for the future of humanity and our planet. The environmental footprint of agriculture needs to be reduced: less input of chemicals like herbicides and fertilizer and other limited resources like water or energy. Simultaneously, the decline in arable land and climate change pose additional constraints like drought, heat, and other extreme weather events.
Achieving sustainable crop production with limited resources is a task of immense proportions. In order to achieve this, the University of Bonn together with Forschungszentrum Jülich conducts research in the Cluster of Excellence “PhenoRob - Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production” to develop methods and new technologies that observe, analyze, better understand and specifically treat plants.
The challenges are huge. Complexity mindset is one of the great tools to tackle all of that. The issue is the scale usually, how we scale up the small scale solutions.
Using robots ln farm's is an Idea, that I wanted to realize for years. - natural farming automated by robots can increase quality of food, diversity and also output.
hello. thankyou for the explanation on 3d radiative transfer modelling. i wanna ask about dart model, is there any source to use the lux core render for dart model. Thankyouu
Many thanks Prof. for this interesting video eliciting the profitability analysis concept. I am particularly interested in this because it's part of my PhD chapters. I would be happy to have further interaction on the issue.
@23:50 What does it matter to use a differential equation when you are trying to model a linear phase of crop growth? Given that it is linear, the derivatives are simply a constant.
I am working on an Agroforestry model called Dynacof which is a buildup for Arabica coffee and I am trying to modify them for Robusta coffee species. If there is someone expert I need to meet them because I have something important to discuss with them. At the moment I am almost stuck to carry on with this modification.
Are these results with or without artificial fertilisers and pesticide use? Farmers who returned to wheat-bean mixed cropping are often doing so out of a desire to avoid the use of artificial fertilisers and pesticides and they tend to report that the yields they achieve with wheat-bean intercropping, but without artificial fertilisers and pesticides is just as good as mono cropped growing with articifial fertilisers and pesticides. Furthermore, they tend to report that the yields were lower in the first few years of switching from mono-cropped to mixed cropped farming, which is almost certainly due to soil quality and the gradual improvement of the soil as a result of sustained mixed cropping. I think this is very important research that we need much more of, but comparative analysis should be done in a way that it actually takes the above mentioned factors into account. We need more scientific evidence for a switch to non-chemistry agriculture. Unfortunately, most scholars are still preaching the gospel that it is impossible to feed the world without chemistry in agriculture, even if there is mounting evidence that this is not actually the case.
Woo cool, i am a Ph.D student utilizing the UAV for crop monitoring. And is there any chance for coming to Bonn as a visiting student? Your project really interests me.
This is a compliment to RU-vid's algorithm. I have seen hundreds of agriculture videos, and hundreds of economics videos. But this was the first agro-economics video. Very interesting and informative. Thanks
