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The advantage of this architecture is threefold: first, it allows the system to inspect large areas of a field at any time, during the day and night, while identifying specific regions affected by biotic and\/or abiotic stresses; second, it provides high-throughput plant phenotyping in the field by either comprehensive or selective acquisition of accurate and detailed data from groups or individual plants; and third, it eliminates the need for expensive and cumbersome aerial vehicles or similarly expensive and confined field platforms. As the preliminary results from our algorithms for data collection and 3D image processing, as well as the data analysis and comparison with phenotype data collected by hand demonstrate, the proposed architecture is cost effective, reliable, versatile, and extendable.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17010214","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,23]],"date-time":"2017-01-23T10:40:33Z","timestamp":1485168033000},"page":"214","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":139,"title":["Vinobot and Vinoculer: Two Robotic Platforms for High-Throughput Field Phenotyping"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Ali","family":"Shafiekhani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"ViGIR Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Suhas","family":"Kadam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Felix","family":"Fritschi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guilherme","family":"DeSouza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ViGIR Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Fischer, G. 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