Michael Brewer

Remote sensing for detecting insect-derived crop stress; interdisciplinary effort (geospatial science and engineering, plant protection/pest management) to apply UAS technologies to the question of detection and monitoring of insect and other crop stresses in large acreage cropping systems.

My current thrust is in characterization of sugarcane aphid stress and other aphid-derived stress in sorghum using remotely sensed data taken from UAVs and compared with data from manned platforms and ground truth observations. The long-term goal is to monitor and detect plant stress in sorghum and wheat as a model application of UAS to pest management in large acreage systems.