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Summary of PhD project:
In 2050, the world population is estimated to be over 9 billion people. For feeding all these people, technical advances need to be used in agriculture, which constitutes the field of precision agriculture. In this research project we will make use of unmanned aerial systems (drones) to monitor crops on the land in order to assist a human farmer. Using the cameras of the unmanned aerial systems we want to answer the following research questions: which visual patterns can be detected on crops that are most useful to help a farmer in his/her daily practice? Which methods from machine learning and computer vision are best in detecting and classifying these patterns?