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The big upcoming event in the NordPlant network is the NordPlant annual meeting on 25-26 November! In addition, this newsletter contains news about our work with introducing common data standards, upcoming events and more. Contents 1. Final program for…
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For the third time, NordPlant is arranging a virtual tour of one of our participating facilities. On this occasion it is the Climate Laboratory in Tromsø that will be featured. This facility is jointly maintained by UiT The Arctic University…
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Nordic PhD course in plant imaging and phenotyping in Tromsø, Norway 22.-26.11.2021 (3 ECTS)Course topic: Novel imaging methods in plant stress researchPlace: UiT The Arctic University of Norway Time of the course: Lectures and practical part 22.- 24.11.2021, and attending…
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The third NordPlant annual meeting will take place on 25-26 November, 2021, in Tromsø and online. To view the presentations remotely on the 25-26 November, please use this Zoom meeting: https://uit.zoom.us/j/64789002638 The program with the relevant rooms and zoom links …
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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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