STARGATE Final Symposium | 18th June 2024 | UCP, Porto, Portugal

It is with great pleasure that we announce STARGATE final event, entitled “Digitalization in Agri-food to Promote Sustainable Food Systems” 🙌 This Symposium will be the ideal stage to share the project accomplishments and predicted impacts of digitalization on the ecological, economic, and technological dimensions of the agri-food systems, within a farm-to-fork perspective. It will also be an amazing opportunity …

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New STARGATE publication | April 2024

STARGATE partners strike again! We are very pleased to share the paper entitled “Automated and non-destructive estimation of soluble solid content of tomatoes on the plant under variable light conditions” developed under the STARGATE project scope. Jos Ruizendaal, Gerrit Polder, and Gert Kootstra propose a dynamic calibration method to deal with the variable light conditions in a greenhouse to predict the …

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9th F&A NEXT Summit

We are pleased to share this upcoming event (22nd – 23rd May 2024), co-organized by Wageningen University & Research, dedicated to CATALYZING SUSTAINABLE FOOD & AGRI INNOVATION! Food & Agri tech startups and scale-ups will be presented to dedicated investors and innovative corporates, fostering networking opportunities. Also, the 10 most promising agrifood tech startups will have a special opportunity to present themselves …

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Summer School on Image Analysis for Plant Phenotyping

This Summer School, organized by Wageningen Academy, will provide a complete mixture of the underlying theory and practical hands-on training on image analysis techniques for automatic plant phenotyping. You will have the chance to work on actual plant image analysis issues! Date: 24th June 2024 until 28th June 2024 Venue: Wageningen Campus Target group: Researchers working on automatic phenotyping and technical …

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STARGATE | Workshop 5: Practical solutions for reducing waste/ valorisation strategies: functional phenotyping towards a circular economy

Through its partner UCP, Porto, Portugal, the STARGATE project is organizing the fifth Workshop on the topic of functional phenotyping towards a circular economy on January 30th, 2024. Target Group | 40 participants from STARGATE partner and non-partner entities. Aim | Address phenotyping technologies and phenomic infrastructures as a support to the development of a circular economy. Fees | The workshop …

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New STARGATE publication | December 2023

We are very pleased to share with you the paper entitled “Ripening dynamics revisited: an automated method to track the development of asynchronous berries on time-lapse images” developed under the STARGATE project scope. With the collaboration of INRAE, one of the STARGATE partners, the paper proposes a method to track the growth and coloration kinetics of individual berries on time-lapse images …

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Postdoc opportunity in Digital Phenotyping in Horticultural Crops, Geisenheim University, Germany

The Institute for Plant Breeding are currently looking for a postdoc in “digital phenotyping” to join the institute at Geisenheim University, Germany. Please, find in the following link the job posting information: https://www.hs-geisenheim.de/fileadmin/redaktion/HOCHSCHULE/Veroeffentlichungen/Stellenausschreibungen/Wissenschaftliche_Mitarbeiter/79-2023__LOEWE_Postdoc_Phenotyping_englisch.pdf The focus of this exciting position is the development, implementation and use of modern digital phenotyping tools, as well as approaches for automated processing of sensor data …

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STARGATE DRONE WORKSHOP | 20 JULY 2023 | VITACRESS, ODEMIRA, PORTUGAL

The STARGATE DRONE WORKSHOP, held on 20th July 2023 at Vitacress Portugal, was a remarkable event that brought together cutting-edge technology, academia, and industry expertise. The workshop was jointly organized by STARGATE partners: Wageningen University & Research and CBQF – Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry with the participation Spin.Works, a leading drone technology company. Participants from various sectors explored the latest advancements in drone …

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