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Special Issue "Remote and Proximal Assessment of Plant Traits" - Remote Sensing

by Jez,Jakub

FYI on behalf of Ittai Herrmann and Katja Berger. Best wishes, Jakub. --- Hello all, I hope you are all well. In case the topic of the special issue is in your scope and you consider paper submission, please let us know. Link to the special issue ----https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Remote_Proximal Just to make it clear, this is an open access journal and therefore there is a publication fee - check the details on line- https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/apc The scope of the special issue: ******************************************** Dear Colleagues, Plants are optically sensed by a variety of sensors and at different scales to answer diverse research questions and to meet practical challenges. Research in quantitative remote sensing starts at the organ scale moving to the entire plant, population, field, or biotope, up to data obtained from entire continents to explore global phenomena. The use of digital information has been abundantly exploited for more efficient cultivation of large areas and has become part of agricultural practices worldwide for irrigation and fertilization based on management zones. In addition, breeders are using high-throughput phenotyping in selection experiments for biotic and abiotic stresses as well as yield quantity and quality. Ecologists are using remotely sensed information to assess carbon footprint. Analyzing high-quality remote sensing observations is also challenging in view of upcoming hyperspectral spaceborne missions and their associated large data streams. Therefore, the development and adaptation of fast, effective, accurate, and generic retrieval algorithms for biophysical and biochemical traits is required. Methods should be provided on appropriate platforms and evaluated by plant physiologists, agronomists, and ecologists. This Special Issue strongly encourages contributions aimed at estimating the morpho-physiological and biochemical plant traits (e.g., plant height, LAI, biomass, nutrient contents, water status, pigment concentration, photosynthetic activity, disease resistance, yield prediction, pollutants detection) from Earth Observation data in agricultural and ecological contexts to support food security and sustainability. This Special Issue aims to cover a vast range of spatial resolutions (from continent to sub-leaf or root) and spectral resolutions (RGB, multi- and hyperspectral imagery, as well as point data). Besides diverse empirical and physically based retrieval approaches, “hybrid approaches” combining the generic properties of radiative transfer models with the flexibility and efficiency of nonlinear nonparametric methods (machine learning) are welcome. Moreover, time-series analysis related to plant traits assessment can be exploited. This Special Issue is expected to demonstrate recent progress and to discuss future perspectives in plant traits sensing. Dr. Ittai Herrmann Dr. Katja Berger Guest Editors ************************************************* Stay healthy and happy, Cheers, Ittai -- Ittai Herrmann, PhD The Plant Sensing Laboratory The Robert H. Smith Institute for Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment The Hebrew University of Jerusalem P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 7610001, ISRAEL Tel: +972-8-9489757 Mobile: +972-52-3947255 Fax: +972-8-9489918 Lab: +972-8-9489958 Email: ittai.herrmann(a)mail.huji.ac.il<mailto:alon.samach@mail.huji.ac.il> Skype: ittaih ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1136-1883 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ittai_Herrmann http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/plantscience/people/Ittai_Herrmann

March 19, 2020

3rd APPN meeting - From Cell to Field - June 25th, VBC, Vienna AT

by Stefanie Wienkoop

Dear colleagues and friends, It is our pleasure to invite you to the 4th Austrian Plant Phenotyping Network (APPN) Conference featuring “From Cell to Field” with the major focus on Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Modelling in the context of Plant Phenotyping. Joint Organization by the University of Vienna, VBCF and OAGM The meeting will take place on June 25, 2020 at the Vienna BioCenter (Free) registration open: https://appn.at/4thappn/ Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order): Sven Fahrner, ESFRI-EMPHASIS, DE Kristina Gruden, NIB, SI Verena Ibl, Mosys, University of Vienna, AT Astrid Junker, IPK Gatersleben, DE Thomas Nägele, LMU München, DE Peter M. Roth, Graz University of Technology , AT Wolfram Weckwerth, Mosys, Uni Vienna, AT Please feel free to share & spread the word! Looking very much forward to meeting you, Stefanie WIenkoop, Markus Teige and Jakub Jez

March 13, 2020