A Hub for Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Production in Future Nordic Climates
The third NordPlant annual meeting will take place on 25-26 November, 2021. This year, we will finally be able to go to Tromsø for a physical meeting, but the presentations will also be available via the web. The program is…
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At the Department of Arctic and Marine Biology (AMB), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, a technical position as lab and data engineer for plant phenotyping is available. The position is linked to the research group “Micro-organisms and Plants” and is…
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As part of NordPlant’s Virtual Tours we visited the Biotron at SLU Alnarp on Thursday 27th May 2021.The Biotron is a facility for modern plant research with climatized rooms with high precision and accuracy climates. Here are the in all…
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We are continuing our work with joint data standards for phenotyping within NordPlant. Here you can see Jesper Cairo Westergaard’s and Tatu Polvinen’s latest presentation from the NordPlant annual meeting “Implementing an ontology-driven information system to push forward data sharing…
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An important part of NordPlants mission is to spread information about the participating facilities. As a part of this, we will give a virtual tour of the PhenoLab in Taastrup outside Copenhagen. This is also part of our Facility Managers…
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This new article associated to NordPlant identifies late blight lesions in field RGB images with the help of deep convolutional neural networks. The article is published in Knowledge-Based Systems: Junfeng Gao, Jesper Cairo Westergaard, Ea Hoegh Riis Sundmark, Merethe Bagge,…
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SENSECO COST action WG3 “Sensor Synergies” and the Research Infrastructure EMPHASIS have similar interests, which they approach from different directions. For instance, remote sensing and phenotyping communities use the same sensor technologies (hyperspectral, thermal, fluorescence, 3-D, etc.) and need similar…
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The NordPlant newsletter for December 2020 has now been sent out, and can also be found here. The contents are: NordPlant prolonged for 2021-2023 The 2nd NordPlant annual day successfully arranged NordPlant’s continuous work on joint data standards NordPlant Facility…
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The Climate Laboratory in Tromsø is jointly maintained by UiT The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) and Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy (Nibio). The Climate Laboratory offers excellent facilities for controlled growth experiments, as it has 6 daylight and 4 dark…
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We are very happy to announce that NordPlant’s mid term evaluation was approved by NordForsk. This means that our project has been granted a second round of funding for 2021-2023. We are very grateful to get this opportunity to continue…
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