I’m happy to have taught and coordinated another session of the Remote Sensing for Plant Health course for the EU Better Training for Safer Food initiative. This year the course featured a stronger UAV (drone) focus, with extensive hands-on demonstrations of aerial sampling of plant material, automated missions and hyper-spectral hardware setups.
In addition, the basic theoretical background of remote sensing was provided including an understanding of the physics of the electromagnetic spectrum in the visible and near-infrared and its relation to vegetation indices.
When starting a new year it always is good to look back at past achievements. Although the shifting geopolitical circumstances have soured the research climate, BlueGreen Labs' output remained strong throughout 2025. In the spirit of the end-of-year lists we've created our own.
The past week BlueGreen Labs provided expert input at the Hermes Bring-Your-Own-Data (BYOD) workshop on text recognition and text analysis at the Leibniz-Institute for European History (IEG). The HERMES program provides resources teach topics in humanities education in research, data, and methods.
The workshop organized by Prof. Dr. Monika Barget brought together participants from the digital humanities to talk about data workflows, issues they encountered and the role of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) within this context.
Teaching within the EU Commission Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF) programme