In our PhenoRob paper “Research Priorities to Leverage Smart Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production”, Sabine Seidel, Hugo Storm and Lasse Klingbeil outline an interdisciplinary agenda to address the key research gaps and advance sustainability in agriculture.
They identify four critical areas:
1. Monitoring to detect weeds and the status of surrounding crops
2. Modelling to predict the yield impact and ecological impacts
3. Decision making by weighing the yield loss against the ecological impact
4. Model uptake, for example policy support to compensate farmers for ecological benefits
Closing these gaps requires strong interdisciplinary collaboration. In PhenoRob, this is achieved through five core experiments, seminar and lecture series, and interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate teaching activities.