18. July 2019
A PTFE gas flux chamber in action to measure the interaction between ozone and plant volatiles
07. July 2019
Wishing the participants of the Rhizosphere 5 conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada a most successful meeting
12. May 2019
On 20th – 21st May 2019, the ATTRACT consortium will call all funded projects, incl. NextMR-IAA, for a kick-off meeting at CERN premises
29. March 2019
Our ATTRACT proposal "Enabling next level research on roots - automatizing MiniRhizotron Image Acquisition and Analysis (NextMR-IAA)" was selected for funding
11. December 2018
Meet Thom A Richards from Bartz Tech at the 2018 AGU Fall meeting, Dec 10-14, 2018, Washington DC
29. October 2018
The proposed NextMR-IAA project aims to develop an automatized MR image acquisition system for permanent operation in situ, and an accompanying machine learning-based image-processing pipeline allowing for high-throughput root/hyphae tracking (segmentation) and root classification, and soil water content estimations.
12. June 2018
Research collaborations are increasingly important. While these collaborations can be extremely fruitful, there are many pitfalls to avoid.
30. May 2018
The H2020 project "FutureArctic" has been accepted for funding. Within the project, VSI will lead efforts to automatise root imaging in situ under arctic climates and to develop new methodologies to facilitate automatic root segmentation using hyperspectral imaging.