Description of Innovation: New techniques in high-resolution spatio-spectral imaging and intelligent analytics are enabling more efficient, more accurate, and more comprehensive trait measurements for breeders and researchers. Technical methods related to spectral imaging, object recognition and segmentation, and trait measurement will be introduced with application to multiple crop types including corn, soybean, wheat, cotton, canola, and sorghum.

Why it matters to the seed industry:  The ability of breeders and researchers to bring continuing improvements to new seed and crop protection products is becoming constrained by the inability to accurately quantify the performance of important traits across trials. The new techniques to be introduced in this session are enabling trait measurements that relieve this constraint and open opportunities for better performing inputs and more accurate forecasting.