As the header mentions, this is a joint project with the Data Science Institute and School of Plant Sciences at the University of Arizona. In this project, we are working with the data generated by the Gantry Machine at the research fields of the university. This machine takes numerous images from the field daily which further can be used to monitor the growth of individual crops. The final goal is to measure the phenotypic features of different variation and mutations of plants in different conditions, mainly under drought stress. At this stage of the project, we are processing the raw images to generate clean orthomosaics. We have developed a new robust method for doing such a thing. Another part of the project is identifying individual crops and monitor their growth through time. This part is done using Deep Neural Network. Another use of Neural Networks in this project is to segmentation of sorghum leaf blight disease on sorghum leaves. Find generated orthomosaics of
lettuce at the given link. You can also take a look at the results of our stitching method on a full field orthomosaics of lettuce season at
this link and compare it to an uncorrected mosaic at
this link. Following illustrates some pictures related to the project. Hover your mouse over the images to read a short explanation about them. Download a short video of the machine at
this link.