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Development of standards for data acquisition and analysis for the use of unmanned aircraft in plant breeding and variety testing (standards4@DroPhe)
Project
Project code: JKI-PB-08-1302
Contract period: 01.10.2020
- 31.10.2023
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Changing environmental conditions and the need for yield-stable varieties pose considerable challenges for plant breeding when conducting field trials over several years at different locations. The use of copters and optical cameras, however, offers a high potential for cost-effective high-throughput field phenotyping, objective results and the recording of additional plant characteristics.
However, the multitude of available sensors and platforms increases the need for comparability of different copter and camera based rating results. The aim of the project standards@drones4phenotyping is therefore to develop standardized recording and evaluation procedures for plant breeding and variety testing. With specifications for camera technology and flight performance as well as a software pipeline up to data evaluation, breeders and service providers are to be enabled to carry out copter flights and rating results according to the developed standards. The parameterization of the software, the configuration of the camera systems and the interpretation of the raw data offer on the one hand options for the integration of existing solutions, on the other hand objective comparison possibilities by standardization. The software pipeline is thus characterized by a high degree of flexibility, expandability and interfaces to proprietary solutions for data management at the users' premises.
The methodology will be developed exemplarily for stand height and flowering state of winter oilseed rape with the help of a test and simulation stand and a test field with field phenotyping technology. The participating plant breeding companies and the German Federal Plant Variety Office are also conducting studies on the practical suitability of their own breeding programs and official variety testing with high variability of rapeseed genotypes.
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Subjects
- Agricultural Engineering Plant Production
- Process engineering
- Computer science
