Drones and AI detect soybean maturity with high accuracy

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Walking rows of soybeans in the mid-summer heat is an exhausting but essential chore in breeding new cultivars. Researchers brave the heat daily during crucial parts of the growing season to find plants showing desirable traits, such as early pod maturity. But without a way to automate detection of these traits, breeders can't test as many plots as they'd like in a given year, elongating the time it takes to bring new cultivars to market.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news