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WheatsApp: An AI app for plant disease detection – Megan Long

Agri-TechE Article
Agri-TechE

Megan Long

Post-graduate researcher at John Innes Centre

“Snap that rust. Scoring plants for diseases such as rust is time-consuming and needs the eye of a trained pathologist. Could machine learning be used to score images taken on a phone? Could this technology enable farmers to identify pathogens quickly in the field?” 

Megan Long

The Emerging Agri-TechE session at REAP 2020 is kindly sponsored by EIT Food.