{"id":875,"date":"2013-05-22T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/?p=875"},"modified":"2013-05-22T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T10:31:14","slug":"phd-position-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-uav-mapping-of-intercropping-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/phd-position-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-uav-mapping-of-intercropping-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD position: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Mapping of Intercropping Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Project Description:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remote sensing technologies have been extensively used in agricultural planning and management. Nevertheless, the technologies are not fully capable in various scenarios. In the context of a tropical country like Malaysia, cloud-cover prevents satellite-based optical sensors from capturing viable data in a timely fashion, whereas airborne-based approaches, as on-demand acquisition, can be very costly. <!--more-->Satellite-based radar signals can penetrate cloud cover and haze but till now, the spatial resolution is not good enough. Existing remote sensing applications have been well developed for mono-cropping systems but not yet for intercropping systems. In another development, the UAV platform has recently emerged as a promising low-cost remote sensing platform, which provides cheap image-on-demand and good spatial resolution produced from low-altitude flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The aim of this PhD project is to design and develop a low-cost UAV system<\/strong> for intercropping system monitoring and management. The research involves sensor integration and development of image analysis solutions. <strong>The target is intercropping practice in Malaysia<\/strong>, where different crops are planted in the space between young oil-palm trees. <strong>The candidate needs to have strong computer programming skills, and knowledge or experience with sensor and robotics technologies<\/strong>. Experience in computer vision or image processing is desirable, but not critical.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Level: PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisor names and contact details:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Tuong Thuy Vu, School of Geography, UNMC (Tuongthuy.Vu@nottingham.edu.my)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Andrew French, Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, UNUK (Andrew.P.French@nottingham.ac.uk)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Tomas Maul, School of Computer Science, UNMC (Tomas.Maul@nottingham.edu.my)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further information is here\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nottingham.edu.my\/CFFRC\/StudentProjects\/Biomass-Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle-(UAV)-Mapping-of-Intercropping-Systems-(ID-Code-BioP1-014).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nottingham.edu.my\/CFFRC\/StudentProjects\/Biomass-Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle-(UAV)-Mapping-of-Intercropping-Systems-(ID-Code-BioP1-014).aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Description:\u00a0 Remote sensing technologies have been extensively used in agricultural planning and management. 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In the context of a tropical country like Malaysia, cloud-cover prevents satellite-based optical sensors from capturing viable data in a timely fashion, whereas airborne-based approaches, as on-demand acquisition, can be very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joboffers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intergeo.webs.upv.es\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}