An image capture device may include a first spectral filter and a second spectral filter arranged so that a panoramic image capture operation captures light filtered by the first spectral filter and light filtered by the second spectral filter in a same region of a combined image and one or more processors to: capture a plurality of images based on the panoramic image capture operation; extract first information and second information from the plurality of images, wherein the first information is associated with the first spectral filter and the second information is associated with the second spectral filter; identify an association between the first information and the second information based on a feature captured in the plurality of images via the first spectral filter and the second spectral filter; and store or provide information based on the association between the first information and the second information.

A sensor arrangement for evaluating agricultural material, the arrangement comprising: a housing having an opening, the opening configured with a window transparent to electromagnetic waves; a detector arranged in the housing for detecting electromagnetic waves coming in through the window; a flexible seal element disposed between the window and the housing; and a compression member proximate at least one of the opening, the housing, the window and the seal element, the compression member configured to press the window against the seal element to seal off the housing.

Measurements of pea tenderness comparable to those provided by mechanical tenderometers are provided through analysis of an infrared spectrum of shelled peas. These measurements may be output directly or used to control real time harvesting of peas to prevent mixing of peas with different tenderness values.

A method for handling harvested root crops such as potatoes. The method includes the steps of optically imaging (i.e., by the hyper-spectral imaging system) a bulk flow of a harvested root crop to produce image data and analysing the image data to identify discrete objects within the bulk flow. Each identified object is categorised as either acceptable or unacceptable based on a comparison with at least one discriminator and objects classified as unacceptable are removed (by the ejector actuator) from the bulk flow to provide a sorted flow of the harvested root crop.

The present disclosure relates to an image-based component measurement system using a light unit that outputs a variable wavelength, a method thereof, and a plant cultivation method using the same. More specifically, the present disclosure provides an image-based component measurement system using a light unit that outputs a variable wavelength, a method thereof, and a plant cultivation method using the same, which collect and analyze data based on image information acquired by emitting light having a specific wavelength using a sheet on which a plurality of quantum dots which can be controlled to have a wavelength necessary for measuring a configuration component of a target object are arranged. Thus, the system and methods are able to measure component content contained in the target object using a low cost and miniaturized device, and cultivate a plant by adjusting content of nutrients of the plant using the measured component content.

At least one sensor carried by a mobile machine senses a sensed forage crop attribute value independent of plant population for an individual forage plant. A processing unit derives a derived forage crop attribute value based on the sensed forage crop attribute value. The derived forage crop attribute value is used to determine a field condition.

There is provided a spectroscopy apparatus for measuring fluorescence signals from a photosynthetic object. The spectroscopy apparatus comprises: one or more light excitation sources (26,28) operable to carry out time-varying excitation of the fluorescence from the photosynthetic object; and one or more fluorescence-sensitive detection channels (36,38,44,46) configured to simultaneously record the fluorescence as a function of time with a microsecond to millisecond time resolution and as a function of wavelength with a wavelength resolution of 10 nm or better, responsive to the excitation of the fluorescence from the photosynthetic object by the or each light excitation source (26,28).

The present disclosure provides a portable apparatus for detecting early crop diseases based on spatial frequency domain imaging. The apparatus includes an end cover, a spatial frequency domain imaging apparatus, a dark box body, a telescopic section, and an opening-and-closing apparatus connected in sequence. The detection method includes: putting a crop sample to be detected into the dark box body from a bottom; projecting structured light of sine grey scale patterns with different spatial frequencies to the crop sample; after the sine gray scale pattern is switched each time, acquiring, by a camera, a diffuse reflection image of a surface of the crop sample once; after capturing all diffuse reflection images, performing uniformity correction on the images, demodulating the images, and extracting an alternating current component; and inputting an alternating current component image to a trained disease detection model, and determining whether the crop sample has a disease.

A system and a method for automated sorting and trimming a plant. The system includes a trimming station, adapted to identify undesired portions of the plant, and to trim the undesired portions off the plant. The system may further include a guiding assembly adapted to ensure that the plant is aligned with the trimming station. A controller controls operation of the trimming station and of the guiding assembly. The system may further include a sorting station adapted to determine whether the plant is infected or contaminated. The controller may be adapted to control operation of the sorting station.

Compositions and methods related to transgenic glyphosate tolerant Brassica plants are provided. Specifically, the present invention provides Brassica plants having a DP-073496-4 event which imparts tolerance to glyphosate. The Brassica plant harboring the DP-073496-4 event at the recited chromosomal location comprises genomic/transgene junctions within SEQ ID NO: 2 or with genomic/transgene junctions as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 12 and/or 13. The characterization of the genomic insertion site of the event provides for an enhanced breeding efficiency and enables the use of molecular markers to track the transgene insert in the breeding populations and progeny thereof. Various methods and compositions for the identification, detection, and use of the event are provided.