AGROS II: Smart cultivation with an autonomous platform

Added on 09 May 2025

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AGROS II: Smart cultivation with an autonomous platform

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In recent years, there has been increasing attention for data-driven cultivation and its benefits for greenhouse horticulture.

That is why the business unit Greenhouse Horticulture of Wageningen University & Research started AGROS II in 2024, a multi-year project that focuses on the next steps that need to be taken to enable data-driven cultivation. Data plays a crucial role in optimizing cultivation conditions, in plant models and in training smart algorithms. Climate data, such as temperature, light and humidity, has been measured with sensors for years. But in addition to climate, crop characteristics are also essential: think of counting leaves and fruits, measuring leaf formation rate and the fruit growth duration.