Data Collection

Maricopa Agricultural Center, Arizona

• The Lemnatec Scanalyzer Field Gantry System

  • Sensor missions

  • Scientific Motivation

  • What sensors, how often etc.

• Tractor

• UAV

• Manually Collected Field Data

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iP8b97kmOyPmETQI_aWbgV_1V6QiKYLblq1jIqXLJ84/edit#heading=h.3w6iuawxkjl6 https://github.com/terraref/reference-data/issues/45

Automated controlled-environment phenotyping, Missouri

The Scanalyzer 3D platform consists of multiple digital imaging chambers connected to the Conviron growth house by a conveyor belt system, resulting in a continuous imaging loop. Plants are imaged from the top and/or multiple sides, followed by digital construction of images for analysis.

• RGB imaging allows visualization and quantification of plant color and structural morphology, such as leaf area, stem diameter and plant height.

• NIR imaging enables visualization of water distribution in plants in the near infrared spectrum of 900–1700 nm.

• Fluorescent imaging uses red light excitation to visualize chlorophyll fluorescence between 680 – 900 nm. The system is equipped with a dark adaptation tunnel preceding the fluorescent imaging chamber, allowing the analysis of photosystem II efficiency.

Capturing images

This video overview will help explain the capture system:

The LemnaTec software suite is used to program and control the Scanalyzer platform, analyze the digital images and mine resulting data. Data and images are saved and stored on a secure server for further review or reanalysis.

You can read more about the Danforth Plant Sciences Center Bellwether Foundation Phenotyping Facility on the DDPSC website.

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