Phenorob: Research Priorities to Leverage Smart Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production

Agriculture today faces significant challenges that require new ways of thinking, such as smart digital technologies that enable innovative approaches. However, research gaps limit their potential to improve agriculture.
In our PhenoRob paper “Research Priorities to Leverage Smart Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production”, researchers 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 the five core experiments, seminar and lecture series, and interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate teaching activities.

The paper is available at:
H. Storm, S. J. Seidel, L. Klingbeil, F. Ewert, H. Vereecken, W. Amelung, S. Behnke, M. Bennewitz, J. Börner, T. Döring, J. Gall, A. -K. Mahlein, C. McCool, U. Rascher, S. Wrobel, A. Schnepf, C. Stachniss, and H. Kuhlmann, "Research Priorities to Leverage Smart Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production," European Journal of Agronomy, vol. 156, p. 127178, 2024. doi:10.1016/j.eja.2024.127178
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