NDVeye: how to count corn plants on a field using Astropy

Bator Koncz & Pal Szabo

QGIS UC 2024 Bratislava

About us

Bator Koncz

Education in agriculture

Works as an agronomist

Pal Szabo

Education in astronomy

Works as a data engineer

Not a Glint Solar project

Corn experiments

Traditional workflow

Workflow using a drone:

  1. Fly a drone
  1. Produce NDVI raster
  1. Count

Let’s automate counting!

Copy astronomy workflow:

  1. Obtain imagery
  1. Background subtraction
  1. Image segmentation
  1. Source deblending

Implementation

Usage

Future

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