Articles
Crop modelling in and for horticulture: paradigms, methods, workflows and scales
Article number
1425_35
Pages
271 – 280
Language
English
Abstract
The workflow from experimentation to modelling and decision-support is in many cases still going in one direction, and modellers are too little involved in the early stages of experimental design, with negative repercussions on data quality for parameterization.
Data acquisition techniques are evolving rapidly, with high-throughput phenotyping devices becoming increasingly available.
The challenge here is to (re)organize the workflow as to avoid data redundancy or lack of usability.
Coupling model design with data acquisition and analysis at an early stage in the project, with mutual sharing of the responsibility for success or failure, sounds trivial but is the way to go forward.
This keynote attempts to give a systematic overview of crop modelling paradigms, methods, workflows and hierarchical scales.
While inevitably being biased due to personal experience and gridlocked opinions, it is meant to provide some orientation for the identification of knowledge gaps and future requirements in crop modelling applied to horticulture.
Data acquisition techniques are evolving rapidly, with high-throughput phenotyping devices becoming increasingly available.
The challenge here is to (re)organize the workflow as to avoid data redundancy or lack of usability.
Coupling model design with data acquisition and analysis at an early stage in the project, with mutual sharing of the responsibility for success or failure, sounds trivial but is the way to go forward.
This keynote attempts to give a systematic overview of crop modelling paradigms, methods, workflows and hierarchical scales.
While inevitably being biased due to personal experience and gridlocked opinions, it is meant to provide some orientation for the identification of knowledge gaps and future requirements in crop modelling applied to horticulture.
Authors
G. Buck-Sorlin
Keywords
hierarchical scales, workflow, phenotyping, processed-based modelling, functional-structural plant modelling, plant ecophysiology, greenhouse climate
Groups involved
- Division Plant-Environment Interactions in Field Systems
- Division Precision Horticulture and Engineering
- Working Group Modelling in Fruit Research and Orchard Management
- Working Group Modelling Plant Growth, Environmental Control, Greenhouse Environment
- Division Greenhouse and Indoor Production Horticulture
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