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Characterisation of targets

Reference	BBS/E/S/00000479
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Paul Miller
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr Andrew Reynolds
Institution	Silsoe Research Institute
Department	Silsoe Research Institute Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	299,672
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2003
End date	31/12/2005
Duration	33 months

Abstract

Studies have shown that the deposition of material applied to a crop canopy as a spray is substantially influenced by canopy structure. The management of canopy structure is also an important component when optimising fertiliser use in cereal crops. While a number of sensing systems have been developed and evaluated in arable crops, little work has related the output of such sensing systems directly to application or agronomic parameters. This is likely to be achieved using a combination of sensing systems rather than the measurement of a single parameter. The project objectives are (1) to review the potential for using combinations of sensing systems to characterise the canopy structure of cereal crops grown in Northern European conditions; (2) to examine the characteristics of ultrasonic sensing systems that may have a role in measuring the physical structure of arable crops; (3) to understand the role that methods of crop canopy characterisation might contribute to the improved management of cereal crops. The approach will build on a data set collected from a series of field experiments that have monitored sensor outputs in cereal crops of different varieties, planting densities and growth stages. The work will maintain close links with associated studies at Silsoe Research Institute that are using image analysis and LIDAR systems to characterise vegetative scenes.It is expected that the first year of the project, together with previous work will establish the feasibility of using a multi-sensor approach for the real time characterisation of an arable crop canopy including the use of ultrasonic distance measuring systems.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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