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Achim Walter

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Professor of Crop Science

ETH-Bereich Hochschulen

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Achim Walter is a Professor of Crop Science at ETH-Bereich Hochschulen in Switzerland. His research focuses on crop phenotyping, utilizing advanced techniques such as drones and image-based monitoring for evaluating plant traits and disease resistance. Recent articles include studies on phenology prediction, satellite-derived crop monitoring, and the impacts of soil tillage on wild bees. He contributes significantly to the understanding of crop performance through innovative methodologies in field research.

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PreDiMix - Predicting and Understanding Diversity Benefits from Variety Mixtures

Open Date: 2025-08-01

Close Date: 2028-07-01

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ECOProt

Open Date: 2023-11-01

Close Date: 2026-12-01

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Digitwin Wheat

Open Date: 2023-03-01

Close Date: 2026-12-01

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PHENO-MINE

Open Date: 2022-07-01

Close Date: 2024-06-01

Grant: Close

How to decrease phosphate (P) losses from upland crops while maintaining optimum crop yields on acid sulfate soils of the lower Mekong delta? (acronym P-ASS)

Open Date: 2021-11-01

Close Date: 2024-10-31

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Lukas Roth

Full professor

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

GERMANY

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Radu Timofte

Humboldt Professor for AI and Computer Vision (Full)

University of Würzburg

GERMANY

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Lukas Kronenberg

Senior Scientist

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

GERMANY

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Nadja El Benni

Head of Research Unit

SWITZERLAND

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Thomas Anken

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Agroscope

SWITZERLAND

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Samuel Wuest

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Agroscope

SWITZERLAND

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Andreas Hund

Group leader physiological breeding

ETH Zürich

SWITZERLAND

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Thomas Keller

Agroscope

SWITZERLAND

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Frank Liebisch

Head of the research group Water Protection and Substance Flows

Agroscope

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Articles (33)

Automated Detection and Monitoring of Ground‐Nesting Bee Nests Using Drone Imagery and Deep Learning

A conceptual framework for simultaneous optimization of integrated climate scenario data and phenology models

No difference in nitrate leaching between digestates and untreated cattle slurry over eight years of organic arable farming

Comparison of PhenoCams and drones for lean phenotyping of phenology and senescence of wheat genotypes in variety testing

DyMEP: R package for weather data-based phenology prediction for ten crops

Investigating pea (Pisum sativum L.) flowering with high throughput field phenotyping and object detection

A review of the journey of field crop phenotyping: From trait stamp collections and fancy robots to phenomics-informed crop performance predictions.

Enhanced gap-filling for satellite-derived crop monitoring using temperature-driven reconstruction techniques

The FIP 1.0 Data Set: Highly resolved annotated image time series of 4,000 wheat plots grown in 6 years.

Wege zu einer markanten Erhöhung des Selbstversorgungsgrades bei weniger Umweltbelastung

A review of soil tillage impacts on ground-nesting wild bees – mechanisms, implications, and future research perspectives

Thermal imaging can reveal variation in stay-green functionality of wheat canopies under temperate conditions.

Growing cocoa in semi-arid climate and the rhythmicity of stem growth and leaf flushing determined by dendrometers.

High-throughput field phenotyping reveals that selection in breeding has affected the phenology and temperature response of wheat in the stem elongation phase

Swiss agriculture can become more sustainable and self-sufficient by shifting from forage to grain legume production

From Neglecting to Including Cultivar-Specific Per Se Temperature Responses: Extending the Concept of Thermal Time in Field Crops

Temporal resolution trumps spectral resolution in UAV-based monitoring of cereal senescence dynamics.

SYMPATHIQUE: image-based tracking of symptoms and monitoring of pathogenesis to decompose quantitative disease resistance in the field.

Pixel to practice: multi-scale image data for calibrating remote-sensing-based winter wheat monitoring methods.

Dataset on digital technologies as learning content in farm manager training in Switzerland and willingness to use farm information systems

Nesting of ground‐nesting bees in arable fields is not associated with tillage system per se, but with distance to field edge, crop cover, soil and landscape context

Insights from field phenotyping improve satellite remote sensing based in-season estimation of winter wheat growth and phenology

Mixing things up! Identifying early diversity benefits and facilitating the development of improved variety mixtures with high throughput field phenotyping

Frost Damage Index: The Antipode of Growing Degree Days.

Linking photosynthesis and yield reveals a strategy to improve light use efficiency in a climbing bean breeding population.

Outdoor Plant Segmentation With Deep Learning for High-Throughput Field Phenotyping on a Diverse Wheat Dataset

Effect of Drought Stress on Bioactives and Starch in Chilean Potato Landraces

Relationship of leaf elongation rate of young wheat leaves, gross primary productivity and environmental variables in the field with hourly and daily temporal resolution

High-throughput field phenotyping of soybean: Spotting an ideotype

Adoption and perception of farm management information systems by future Swiss farm managers – An online study

Crop Nitrogen Retrieval Methods for Simulated Sentinel-2 Data Using In-Field Spectrometer Data

Temperature response of wheat affects final height and the timing of stem elongation under field conditions.

Rethinking temperature effects on leaf growth, gene expression and metabolism: Diel variation matters.

Collaborators (9)

Lukas Roth

Radu Timofte

Lukas Kronenberg

Nadja El Benni

Thomas Anken

Samuel Wuest

Andreas Hund

Thomas Keller

Frank Liebisch

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