Energy for crops

Automated Phenotyping System for Energy Crops

Background. Biofuels and biopower are a significant source of renewable energy. Our team has built a high-throughput (HTP) robotic phenotyping system in field environments which takes pictures of plants everyday and a software will take these pictures and output 3D point clouds of plants. We would like to use these 3D point clouds from the field to estimate the phenotypes. Aim. Building an auto...

European Energy Crops: a Synthesis

The European Energy Crops Overview (EECO) project was carried out with 20 partners from fourteen EU countries during 1996. The EECO-project provides the state-of-the-art on energy crops activities in Europe. More than 30 potential energy crop species have been investigated in Europe, but only a few have achieved commercial status so far. The introduction of energy crops in agriculture is relati...

Perennial Energy Crops: Growth and Management

Improved anaerobic digestion of energy crops and agricultural residues Improved anaerobic digestion of energy crops and agricultural residues

High-Throughput Robotic Phenotyping of Energy Sorghum Crops

Plant phenotyping is a time consuming, labour intensive, error prone process of measuring the physical properties of plants. We present a scalable robotic system which employs computer vision and machine learning to phenotype plants rapidly. It maintains high throughput making multiple phenotyping measurements during the plant lifecycle in plots containing thousands of plants. Our novel approac...