Seaweed is grown on ropes, the moorings and position of which can be tracked by a vision system. Credit: PEBL
Fishful thinking
11 February 2022
Tim Reynolds on some of the ways imaging is used to farm fish
Agriculture
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Spectral vision foresees seed germination story
9 November 2021
Greg Blackman finds out how seed producers are reaping the rewards of imaging
Lynred to build swir sensor for Copernicus satellite
8 April 2021
The swir detector will be integrated into the Copernicus Land Surface Temperature Monitoring satellite, and will measure surface temperatures of land experiencing drought
Outfield analyses aerial images of orchards using machine learning to predict crop yield
Sowing the seeds of digital tech
1 April 2021
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
Machine vision – a driver of digital agriculture
1 February 2021
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This white paper explores how machine vision automates and optimises processes in agriculture. From industrial-scale agricultural enterprises to small farms, everyone is relying more on digital technologies in line with smart farming.
Farmland monitoring application note
19 January 2021
Raptor Photonics has published an application note describing how researchers from the University of Applied Science Koblenz have developed an imaging system for airborne monitoring of farmland
Cyberworks Robotics autonomous navigation platform for agricultural tow-tugs
4 December 2020
Cyberworks Robotics, in partnership with Framos, Intel RealSense technology, AWS Fleet Management, and Fernlea Flower, have announced a self-driving add-on platform that can be applied to agriculture electric tow-tugs
Investing in innovation
26 October 2020
Keely Portway looks at the trials and tribulations of bringing new technology to market, particularly in a pandemic
EPIC meeting on precision agriculture
Photonics applications are emerging in farms, such as the use of UAVs for monitoring soil and crop health or water supply quality. The purpose is to discuss with end-users opportunities in this sector for lidar, hyperspectral imaging, laser systems or fiber sensors.
Every grain counts
4 June 2020
How will the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 with no new land for agriculture? Greg Blackman speaks to machine builder Bühler about how optical sensing can maximise yield in grain processing
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A roundup of some of the latest embedded vision technology
Glass inspection normally involves different illumination methods. Credit: MSTVision
Tim Hayes provides a window into how to find defects in glass
Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
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Tim Reynolds finds out how vision and AI algorithms are making cities safer
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on how the mechanical engineering sector could be affected by the war in Ukraine
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Greg Blackman examines the importance of Tower foundries to machine vision sensor firms, following Intel’s acquisition
