In-field high-throughput phenotyping approach using a multi-view and multi-sensor ground-based vehicle (Conference Presentation)

Abstract

By the year 2050 the world population will increase to 9.7 billion people. Food production must increase by at least 70% in order to feed this population. One way to increase food production is to create crop cultivars that can produce high quality and high yielding crops without needing to increase the amount of resources required. Plant breeders are able to create new crop cultivars using high-throughput genotyping techniques, however the current bottleneck in plant breeding is in-field phenotyping. This study focuses on designing a high-throughput in-field proximal phenotyping system capable of collecting non-contact, high-resolution, multi-sensor, multi-view, phenomic data of vegetable plants.