www.cranfield.ac.uk

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Cranfield is the UK’s leading postgraduate engineering university and centre for applied agricultural science.

Cranfield University has the largest collection of soil and water scientists and postharvest scientists in Europe.

Cranfield is a proud member of two of the UK Government’s Agritech Innovation Centres viz. AgriEPICentre and Crop Health and Protection*, - receiving £9 million in capital investment. * formerly known as Applied Crop Science (ACS)

Capabilities

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Plant phenomics through photonics

• Moveable phenotyping gantry equipped with sophisticated real-time scanning photonics to assess plant health, crop architecture, and pre-symptomatic detection of disease and stress.

• Sensors include: hyperspectral imaging, chlorophyll fluorescence, 3D laser mapping, IR thermography)

• New sensor fabrication and innovation photonics laboratory

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New phenotyping glasshouse

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Soil science

Tillage / cultivations Seeds or transplants drilled

Soil processed to replicate

field conditions

48 soil modules (1 m3) joined before cultivations

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Precision AgEng

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Postharvest AgEng and biology

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Agri-analytics and ‘Water for food’ - 2017/18