A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

GT Freschet, L Pagès, CM Iversen, LH Comas… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

Lidar sheds new light on plant phenomics for plant breeding and management: Recent advances and future prospects

S Jin, X Sun, F Wu, Y Su, Y Li, S Song, K Xu… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plant phenomics is a new avenue for linking plant genomics and environmental studies,
thereby improving plant breeding and management. Remote sensing techniques have …

Soybean yield prediction from UAV using multimodal data fusion and deep learning

M Maimaitijiang, V Sagan, P Sidike, S Hartling… - Remote sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Preharvest crop yield prediction is critical for grain policy making and food security. Early
estimation of yield at field or plot scale also contributes to high-throughput plant phenotyping …

Above-ground biomass estimation and yield prediction in potato by using UAV-based RGB and hyperspectral imaging

B Li, X Xu, L Zhang, J Han, C Bian, G Li, J Liu… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rapid and accurate biomass and yield estimation facilitates efficient plant phenotyping and
site-specific crop management. A low altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was used to …

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

AD Bjorkman, IH Myers-Smith, SC Elmendorf… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential
ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and …

Crop monitoring using satellite/UAV data fusion and machine learning

M Maimaitijiang, V Sagan, P Sidike, AM Daloye… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Non-destructive crop monitoring over large areas with high efficiency is of great significance
in precision agriculture and plant phenotyping, as well as decision making with regards to …

High throughput determination of plant height, ground cover, and above-ground biomass in wheat with LiDAR

JA Jimenez-Berni, DM Deery… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Crop improvement efforts are targeting increased above-ground biomass and radiation-use
efficiency as drivers for greater yield. Early ground cover and canopy height contribute to …

Peatland warming strongly increases fine-root growth

A Malhotra, DJ Brice, J Childs… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Belowground climate change responses remain a key unknown in the Earth system. Plant
fine-root response is especially important to understand because fine roots respond quickly …

Beyond 3-D: The new spectrum of lidar applications for earth and ecological sciences

JUH Eitel, B Höfle, LA Vierling, A Abellán… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Capturing and quantifying the world in three dimensions (x, y, z) using light detection and
ranging (lidar) technology drives fundamental advances in the Earth and Ecological …

Vegetation index weighted canopy volume model (CVMVI) for soybean biomass estimation from unmanned aerial system-based RGB imagery

M Maimaitijiang, V Sagan, P Sidike… - ISPRS journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Crop biomass estimation with high accuracy at low-cost is valuable for precision agriculture
and high-throughput phenotyping. Recent technological advances in Unmanned Aerial …