FFS PhD student finds cost-effective hands-free way to estimate plant height in protected cropping facilities

Namal Jayasuriya’s research at Western Sydney University using machine vision to estimate crop-height, a proxy for vegetative growth, has been published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

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Dist. Prof. David Tissue

David Tissue, Research Lead for Program 2 – Advanced Protected cropping systems – within the Future Food Systems CRC, is a Distinguished Professor at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE). Here, he holds multiple roles, including as Scientific Research Director for the National Vegetable Protected Cropping Centre (NVPCC); Discipline Leader for Agriculture and Food Science; and Research Leader for Rainout Shelters at Hawkesbury Forest Experiment.

Since relocating from the United States of America in 2007, he has been the recipient of several grants from the prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC). Dist. Prof. Tissue has a long history of constructive collaboration with the agriculture and forestry industries in the United States and Australia, providing industry-relevant research and innovations and linking with end-user groups for immediate uptake.

Dist. Professor Tissue is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Royal Botanic Garden and Trust (Sydney); part of the leadership team at the Global Centre for Land-based Innovation (GCLBI), where he heads up the Industry and Training Program; and serves as editor or part of the editorial board of five peer-reviewed journals.

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Gareema Pandey: Optimising nutritional content in polytunnel-grown blueberries

As CRC Industry PhD student attached to the ‘Blueberry nutritional optimisation’ project, Gareema Pandey is working with crop scientists and sustainability experts at Western Sydney University and NSW Department of Primary Industries to improve the nutritional profile of blueberries grown undercover.

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