AI-empowered hyperspectral sensing advances agricultural ground truthing across scales

Sheng Wang1, Kaiyu Guan2, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth3, Chenhui Zhang4, Andrew DB Leakey5, Qu Zhou6, Andrew J. Margenot7, Philip A Townsend8 and Chongya Jiang6, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, epartment of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology and Carl. R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science, Urbana, United States, (5)University of Illinois, Department of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, (6)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, IL, United States, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (8)University of Wisconsin Madison, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States