Basics of plant phenotyping: Plant traits, phenotypes, role of phenomics in precision agriculture.
Leaf and Stomatal Functions: Leaf temperature and energy fluxes, photosynthesis and stomal conductance.
Plant-Environment Interactions: Plant phenology, water and nutrient uptake in plants, biotic and abiotic stresses, stress tolerance mechanisms and phenotypic plasticity, and agronomic practices influencing yield potential.
Plant phenotyping sensors: Proximal and remote sensing methods, imaging techniques, HTP platforms, and types of HTP data.
Data Science fundamentals for high-throughput plant phenotyping: Data distributions, descriptive and inferential statistics, data visualization, preprocessing, transformations, and feature engineering.
Introduction to time-series data: Moving averages, exponential smoothing, ARIMA models, evaluating TS forecasts of plant phenology and trait development.
Computer Vision: Supervised and unsupervised learning of lab and field phenomics image data, model training, validation, and evaluation for different predictive phenomics applications.
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