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Meeting Time: 2020-12-14T16:45:59Z
Cornell
Institute for Digital Agriculture – Fall 2020 Seminar Series:
New Faculty
Research in Digital Agriculture
Challenges and
Opportunities for Digital Horticulture: Sensing, Automation, and
Analytics
Yu Jiang, Assistant Research
Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Horticulture Section, Cornell
AgriTech
Abstract:
Agriculture is facing tremendous challenges in its
productivity, sustainability, and quality from the rapidly growing population,
changing climate, and severe shortfall of arable land and water resources.
Although significant investment and research advances haven been made for field
crops, horticultural crops (e.g., fruits and vegetables) receive much less
attentions, leading to potential risks of nutrition security, a critical issue
in addition to food security for human beings. It is imperative to develop
sensing, automation, and analytical tools for horticultural crops. In this
talk, I will describe past and ongoing projects on the integration of imaging
and computing technologies to extract key features for improving the yield,
quality, sustainability, and adaptability for major horticultural crops through
a systematic approach.
Bio:
Yu Jiang joined Cornell AgriTech as
an Assistant Research Professor of Systems Engineering and Data Analytics for
Specialty Crops in 2019 right after the completion of his Ph.D. degree in
Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. He earned
his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from China. He leads
the Cyber-Agricultural Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) lab dedicated to the
development of advanced engineering solutions to critical challenges in modern
agricultural research and production by combining sensing, robotics, and data
analytics.