NBPPN “Data management workshop – From Phenotyping Experiment to FAIR Data” will take place in Ås, Norway 11, 12, & 13^th March 2026.

 

Register below! Deadline 15 February 2025.

Call for Participants

We invite researchers, students, and professionals interested in plant phenotyping and data management to participate in a hands-on workshop focused on metadata analysis and data reusability. The activity will emphasize best practices for organizing, storing, and sharing data to maximize its long-term value. Participants will work with real-world datasets from field trials using UAV-based phenotyping and from controlled environment experiments using the 3D multispectral scanner TraitFinder. You will learn how to process these data and integrate them using PHIS, gaining practical experience with tools that support FAIR data principles. Through in-person training sessions, participants will develop skills to make their data more accessible and reusable for themselves, the research and breeding communities, and for the benefit of society at large.

There are two types of registration available for the workshop:

• Online Participation (Lecture Only): Fully free, allowing you to join virtually from anywhere in the world.
• In-Person Attendance (Lecture + Hands-On): While there is no registration fee, participants must cover their own transport, accommodation, and meals expenses. In-person attendees are required to arrive a day prior to the workshop, as lectures will begin between 8:30 – 9:00 AM (CET, UTC+01:00). Please note that in-person attendance is limited to 20 participants.

 

Location: Innsikten, VET Building, Ås Campus, NMBU, Norway (11-12th March)

Admiralen, Bikuben, Ås Campus, NMBU, Norway (13th March)

 

Programme (preliminary):

11th of March [Day 1]

Morning (Hybrid, 9:00 – 12:00 CET) 

Lectures:

• Introducing Nordic platforms – Morten Lillemo, Kristiina Himanen, Jesper Cairo Westergaard, Sajeevan Radha Sivarajan

• The Importance of Data Management in Plant Phenotyping – Morten Lillemo (NMBU, NO)

• The Road to Precision: Spectral Imaging for Abiotic Stress Responses—Are We There Yet?  – Sónia Negrão (University College Dublin, IE)

• Data management benefit, common practice and potential tools –  Jesper Cairo Westergaard (University of Copenhagen, DK)

• Principles of handling UAV data – Sahameh Shafiee (NMBU, NO)

Afternoon (In person, 13:00 – 16:00 CET) 

Hands-On: Collected existing UAV data, adding metadata and processing it –Sahameh Shafiee (NMBU, NO)

 

12th of March [Day 2]

Morning (Hybrid, 8:45 – 11:45 CET) 

Lectures

•  Making Data FAIR compliant – Donald Hobern (APPN, AU)

• Image- based Phenotype of Fusarium head blight in barley and wheat – Brian Steffenson (University of Minnesota, USA)

• TraitFinder: 3D Multispectral Phenotyping for Plant Research – Rita Armonienè (LAMMC, LT)

•  Focus on PHIS main principles, architecture – Isabelle Alic (INRAE, FR)

• TBA

Afternoon (In person 13:00 – 16:00 CET)

Hands-On: Extracting data from the TraitFinder and processing and analysing data – Thomas Bawin (UiT, NO)

 

13th of March [Day 3]

Morning (In person, 9:00 – 12:00 CET)

Hands-On: Using PHIS for Data Management and storing both UAV and TraitFinder data sets into PHIS – Sylvain Poque (UH, FI) and Thomas Bawin (UiT, NO)

End

 

Please register the form below:

https://pheno.no/event/nbppn-workshop-from-phenotyping-experiment-to-fair-data/