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    • Adoption of unoccupied aerial systems in agricultural research
    • Data and code from: Unoccupied aerial systems adoption in agricultural research
    • Predicting spring phenology in deciduous broadleaf forests: NEON phenology forecasting community challenge
    • Automating methods for estimating metabolite volatility
    • Early detection of drought stress in durum wheat using hyperspectral imaging and photosystem sensing
    • ESS-DIVE unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) reporting format v1
    • Increasing racial diversity in the north american plant phenotyping network through conference participation support
    • Bison-fly: an open-source UAV pipeline for plant breeding data collection
    • Data from: expanded potential growing region and yield increase for agave americana with future climate
    • Data-driven artificial intelligence for calibration of hyperspectral big data
    • Review and synthesis: the promise of big soil data, moving current practices towards future potential
    • Data and code from: on-farm land management strategies and production challenges in United States organic agricultural systems
    • What does TERRA-REF’s high resolution, multi sensor plant sensing public domain data offer the computer vision community?
    • Ten simple rules to cultivate transdisciplinary collaboration in data science
    • A reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data and metadata
    • Expanded potential growing region and yield increase for agave americana with future climate
    • Global wheat head detection 2021: an improved dataset for benchmarking wheat head detection methods
    • On-farm land management strategies and production challenges in United States organic agricultural systems
    • An open, scalable, and flexible framework for automated aerial measurement of field experiments
    • Beyond ecosystem modeling: a roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data-model integration
    • Exosphere - bringing the cloud closer
    • Robust paths to net greenhouse gas mitigation and negative emissions via advanced biofuels
    • TERRA-REF, an open reference data set from high resolution genomics, phenomics, and imaging sensors. Dryad digital repository
    • Transforming ANOVA and regression statistics for meta-analysis
    • UAV-based sorghum growth monitoring: a comparative analysis of LIDAR and photogrammetry
    • BrAPI—an application programming interface for plant breeding applications
    • A new optical remote sensing technique for high-resolution mapping of soil moisture
    • Reply to: brazilian ethanol expansion subject to limitations
    • BETYdb: a yield, trait, and ecosystem service database applied to second‐generation bioenergy feedstock production
    • ForC: a global database of forest carbon stocks and fluxes
    • TERRA-REF data processing infrastructure
    • Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as an expandable green alternative to crude oil use
    • Root volume distribution of maturing perennial grasses revealed by correcting for minirhizotron surface effects
    • Biofuel ecophysiological traits and yields database (betydb, betydb.org)
    • Predictive ecosystem analyzer (PEcAn, textlessa href=\"pecanproject.org\"textgreaterpecanproject.orgtextless/atextgreater)
    • TERRA reference phenotyping platform database and computing pipeline (textlessa href=\"terraref.org\"textgreaterterraref.orgtextless/atextgreater)
    • Data and code from \"nitrogen limitation of net primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems is globally distributed\"
    • Carbon dynamics of mature and regrowth tropical forests derived from a pantropical database ( textlessspan style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\"textgreaterTtextless/spantextgreater rop textlessspan style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\"textgreaterFtextless/spantextgreater or textlessspan style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\"textgreaterCtextless/spantextgreater ‐db)
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    • Ten simple rules for digital data storage
    • A holistic workflow development for agricultural supply chain analysis: integration of meteorological forecasting, crop simulation, and supply chain optimization models
    • A physiological and biophysical model of coppice willow (salix spp.) production for the contiguous USA in current and future climate scenarios
    • BioCro crop productivity and ecosystem service simulation model
    • Ecosystem climate regulation services calculator
    • Shiitake cultivation on logs
    • Toward systems-level analysis of agricultural production from crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM): scaling from cell to commercial production
    • Light to liquid fuel: theoretical and realized energy conversion efficiency of plants using crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in arid conditions
    • A quantitative assessment of a terrestrial biosphere model's data needs across north american biomes
    • Ecophysiological screening of tree species for biomass production: trade‐off between production and water use
    • On improving the communication between models and data
    • Predicting yields of short‐rotation hybrid poplar ( textitpopulus spp.) for the United States through model–data synthesis
    • Facilitating feedbacks between field measurements and ecosystem models
    • Ecological cyberinfrastructure and HPC towards more accurately predicting future levels of greenhouse gases
    • Translating probability density functions : from R to BUGS and back again
    • Water in the energy industry: an introduction
    • Data entry workflow for the biofuel ecophysiological traits and yields database
    • Litter degradation rate and β-glucosidase activity increase with fungal diversity
    • A quantitative review comparing the yield of switchgrass in monocultures and mixtures in relation to climate and management factors
    • Biofuel ecophysiological traits and yields database (betydb)
    • Low levels of nitrogen addition stimulate decomposition by boreal forest fungi
    • Nitrogen limitation of net primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems is globally distributed
    • Carbon balance of ecosystems under nitrogen enrichment
    • Application of real-time PCR to study effects of ammonium on population size of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in soil
    • Consider shiitake cultivation!
    • Consider Shiitake Cultivation!
    • Growing textitpleurotus tuberregium
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An open, scalable, and flexible framework for automated aerial measurement of field experiments

Jan 1, 2020·
Christophe Schnaufer
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Julian L Pistorius
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David S LeBauer
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