date:Jan 16, 2020
IFAS plant pathology professor.
For the new study, Roberts and Yiannis Ampatzidis, researchers at the UF/IFAS Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, flew drones over experimental tomato farms at the facility. The unmanned aerial vehicles took images of the crop and, from those pictures, the scientists were able to identify the diseases.
Through technology called a multilayer perceptron neural network, the scientists differentiated between bacterial spot and target spot, and did so wi