Blog &amp; News

Cloverfield™ Release – V3.0 – November 2024

In this post, discover the latest features accessible in Hiphen's Cloverfield™, your all-in-one phenotyping data platform.

October 14, 2024

Crop Science Biocontrol

Enhancing Crop Yield Potential – Access Wheat Head Density Estimation in 1-Click

Improve crop yield assessments with Literal's wheat head density estimations, reducing errors by 50% and enhancing heritability by 10%.

October 7, 2024

Crop Science Biocontrol

Leave Manual Crop Assessments Behind – Go Digital!

Discover how Literal transforms crop research by automating plant trait assessment, offering precision, consistency, and data interoperability compared to manual methods.

October 7, 2024

Cloverfield Data

Cloverfield™ Release – Import Custom Data – September 2024

In this post, discover the latest features accessible in Hiphen's Cloverfield™, your all-in-one phenotyping data platform.

September 30, 2024

Literal Biocontrol

Literal®: Automated Plant Feature Detection, Classification and Quantification from High-resolution Imagery

Discover how Literal’s robust hardware and integrated software automate complex plant trait detection and assessment from high-resolution imagery.

September 23, 2024

Bridging the Gap: Making High-Resolution Field Phenotyping Accessible

Discover how Literal bridges the gap to affordable high-resolution phenotyping, automating critical plant traits like wheat head count for crop researchers.

September 16, 2024

Leverage Precision Phenotyping for Deeper Insights into Plant Physiology

Discover how Literal® empowers plant breeders and crop researchers with precise and repeatable plant trait assessments for informed decision-making.

June 26, 2024

Cloverfield™ Phenomic Prediction v1 – June 2024

In this post, discover the latest features accessible in Hiphen's Cloverfield™, your all-in-one phenotyping data platform.

May 30, 2024

Real-time Kinematic (RTK) to Access Centimeter-level Accuracy for Plant Traits Assessment

Introduction In the rapidly evolving field of agricultural research, high-throughput plant phenotyping stands out as a critical component for advancing plant breeding by optimizing breeding schemes and by improving the desirable trait heritability & genetic gain of your field trials.

May 16, 2024

Cloverfield™ Dynamic Filtering – May 2024

In this post, discover the latest features accessible in Hiphen's Cloverfield™, your all-in-one phenotyping data platform.

March 27, 2024

Breeding Biocontrol

Plant Height Trait Assessment – Unlocking Biomass to Speed Up Breeding Cycles

Introduction Welcome to our comprehensive technical guide on plant height trait assessment, a crucial aspect in unlocking plant biomass estimations to speed up breeding cycles.

March 26, 2024

Collaborative Projects

SIMONE Project

Project Overview SIMONE will identify, deliver, and evaluate innovations that involve technical, environmental, and economic dimensions. By fostering cooperation among diverse actors, SIMONE seeks to enhance rural linkages and bolster agricultural sustainability across North-West Europe.

February 9, 2024

Cloverfield™ New Traits Glossary – February 2024

In this post, discover the latest features accessible in Hiphen's Cloverfield™, your all-in-one phenotyping data platform.

December 12, 2023

Breeding News

Decommissioning of the Legacy SlantView Platform from SlantRange®

Hiphen & SlantRange, two pioneers in the application of remote sensing, computer vision, and AI for agriculture are joining forces.

December 6, 2023

Cloverfield Biocontrol

Cloverfield™ Release – December 2023

In this post, discover the latest features accessible in Hiphen's Cloverfield™, your all-in-one phenotyping data platform.

November 21, 2023

Daily monitoring of Effective Green Area Index and Vegetation Chlorophyll Content from continuous acquisitions of a multi-band spectrometer over winter wheat

Green area index (GAI), leaf chlorophyll content (LCC) and canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) are key variables that are closely related to crop growth. Concurrent and continuous monitoring of GAI, LCC…

October 23, 2023

Cloverfield Data

Harnessing the Power of Web Technologies for Plant Research

Dive into the transformative power of web technologies revolutionizing plant assessment and enhancing our understanding of plant behavior

October 4, 2023

Cloverfield™ New Features – October 2023

In this post, discover the latest features accessible in Hiphen's Cloverfield™, your all-in-one phenotyping data platform.

September 25, 2023

Cloverfield Crop Science

The Power of APIs in a Data-Driven AgTech Realm

APIs drive a data-driven revolution in agriculture, empowering seamless data exchange, enabling automation, efficiency, and secured communication.

September 18, 2023

Grape Crop Production

The Story of Modern Grape Harvesting: Balancing Tradition and Technology

As the climate continues to change, grape growers and winemakers face new challenges every year. To adapt and thrive in this dynamic environment, legacy champagne house Moët & Chandon has partnered with Hiphen, a cutting-edge imaging solutions provider, to revolutionize grape quality assessment at harvest.

September 11, 2023

Crop Science Data

How AI Is Revolutionizing the Agricultural Landscape Globally

AI revolutionizes global agriculture, boosting efficiency, productivity, and sustainability, with human expertise as a vital factor.

Satellite Breeding

Unleashing the Power of Drone and Satellite Image Analytics

Revolutionizing agriculture: Contrasting drone and satellite image analytics for optimized crop monitoring through the growing season

Data Breeding

The Pinhole Camera Model or How to Combine Sensor Data

Advanced imaging solutions and equipment helps assessing plants like never before. Discover the pinhole camera model that enables data fusion

The Importance of Plot Mapping for Digital Phenotyping

The importance of plot mapping for digital phenotyping is crucial, it enables smooth and precise plant trait assessment from image analysis.

Crop Science Data

The Importance of Contrast & Brightness for Ag Image Analysis

Contrast and brightness are vital for enhanced agricultural image analysis, enabling better crop health understanding among others.

Cloverfield Crop Science

The Hidden Part of the Iceberg in Digital Phenotyping

Georeferencing agricultural plots is crucial in digital phenotyping to be able to deliver the right information about each assessed plant

Breeding Innovation

State-of-the-Art of Imaging Technologies for Plant Assessment

Imaging technologies for plant assessment are enabling us to understand plant resilience and performance to boost ag research.

How to Efficiently Count and Classify Fruits in Orchards?

Imaging solutions are revolutionizing how we count and classify fruits in orchards among others. Embrace the power of digital phenotyping now

Breeding Cloverfield

How Can Spatial Correction Improve Plant Breeding Selection?

Explore the transformative potential of spatial correction in plant breeding, ensuring precision and reliability in selecting varieties.

Crop Science Data

Advantages of Digital Phenotyping for Controlled Conditions Agriculture

Imaging solutions are revolutionizing Ag research and production. Discover the benefits of digital phenotyping for controlled conditions agriculture.

June 6, 2023

Hiphen Team Breeding

Hiphen® Joins Forces with SlantRange®

Hiphen & SlantRange, two pioneers in the application of remote sensing, computer vision, and AI for agriculture are joining forces.

May 12, 2023

UMT Capte Innovation

Reflecting on an Incredible Journey: THE CAPTE WORKSHOP

(Re)discover the CAPTE Workshop - The plant phenotyping event focused on sharing the latest advances in imaging solutions for agriculture

March 9, 2023

DJI Mavic 3M – A Revolution for Drone Phenotyping?

DJI released a new version of the Mavic range with the Mavic 3M, a promising device that embeds a high-resolution RGB camera combined to a large-specter multispectral camera

May 3, 2022

5 Features to Look for When Selecting Drone RGB Sensors for Phenotyping

Drones have become better, less expensive, and easier to use, thus more researchers have been incorporating them into their programs. Find out how to select your drone device now!

January 14, 2022

What Is a Phenotyping Trait?

Senior Lead Etienne David explains what is a phenotyping trait and how they represents a valuable amount of information for crop research.

January 14, 2022

Breeding Product Performance

How to Implement Drone Flights for Plant Phenotyping Projects?

Implementing drone flights for plant phenotyping is useful to collect valuable phenotypic data all along your research program duration. And it's easy to do.

January 12, 2022

UAV

Is the Drone Industry Reaching Maturity for Plant Phenotyping?

Drones has improved a lot since the development of this technology, the industry now reaching maturity for drone phenotyping then?

October 13, 2021

UAV

What Is the Hiphen Academy?

At Hiphen, we accompany our clients towards each step of their plant phenotyping journey with the goal to provide a hassle-free experience and to deliver excellence in data quality. Drone data acquisition is often the starting point of your phenotyping project, and if not executed correctly, your agronomist team is likely to receive poor quality...

September 15, 2021

The Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid While Flying Drones for Phenotyping

Discover the top 5 mistakes to avoid while flying drones for phenotyping and see how the Hiphen Academy help address those common issues.

June 2, 2021

Impact of the reproductive organs on crop BRDF as observed from a UAV

Several crops bear reproductive organs (RO) at the top of the canopy after the flowering stage, such as ears for wheat, tassels for maize, and heads for sunflowers. RO present…

June 2, 2021

Estimates of maize plant density from UAV RGB images using Faster-RCNN detection model: impact of the spatial resolution

Early-stage plant density is an essential trait that determines the fate of a genotype under given environmental conditions and management practices. The use of RGB images taken from UAVs may…

June 2, 2021

Global Wheat Head Dataset 2021: an update to improve the benchmarking wheat head localization with more diversity

The Global Wheat Head Detection (GWHD) dataset was created in 2020 and has assembled 193,634 labelled wheat heads from 4,700 RGB images acquired from various acquisition platforms and 7 countries/institutions…

Exploiting the centimeter resolution of UAV multispectral imagery to improve remote-sensing estimates of canopy structure and biochemistry in sugar beet crops

The recent emergence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has opened a new horizon in vegetation remote sensing, especially for agricultural applications. However, the benefits of UAV centimeter-scale imagery are still…

An automatic method based on daily in situ images and deep learning to date wheat heading stage

Accurate and timely observations of wheat phenology and, particularly, of heading date are instrumental for many scientific and technical domains such as wheat ecophysiology, crop breeding, crop management or precision…

Scoring Cercospora Leaf Spot on Sugar Beet: Comparison of UGV and UAV Phenotyping Systems

Selection of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) cultivars that are resistant to Cercospora Leaf Spot (CLS) disease is critical to increase yield. Such selection requires an automatic, fast, and objective…

FASPECT: A model of leaf optical properties accounting for the differences between upper and lower faces

Many plant species have distinct optical properties between upper and lower leaf faces. These differences between faces are mainly attributed to the non-homogeneous distribution of absorbing and scattering materials within…

Crop Science

What Is Plant Phenotyping?

Plant phenotyping is the science of the characterisation of the crops. It's particularly important for decision support in agriculture

Our Vision of Agricultural Imagery Solutions

In this video, our R&D director, Joss Gillet present you our vision of agricultural imagery solutions for a better and smarter agriculture.

Our Solution to Amplify Your Plant Phenotyping Game: Cloverfield

Get in touch deeper with our image analytics and online data processsing platform to amplify your plant phenotyping game: Cloverfield.

Our Bespoke Image Solutions Process

Here is our bespoke image solutions process and how we can provide a good and tailored answer to every agriculture businesses needs.

Global Wheat Challenge – Episode 3

In episode 3, the team describes how the world's largest set of annotated wheat images was prepared for the wheat head detection competition.

Global Wheat Challenge – Episode 2

Episode 2 of the Global Wheat Challenge series looks at how wheat images were gathered from research institutes around the globe to assemble a truly diverse dataset.

Global Wheat Challenge – Episode 1

Counting wheat heads by hand is slow, tedious and error-prone. In this first episode of the Global Wheat Challenge series, the team explains why a better way was needed and how image analysis can deliver it.

March 31, 2021