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Four football fields…every single blade of grass

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10 September 2006



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Think I’m crazy in suggesting that a machine could track every single plant over an area of several acres? This Digg item [2012Oct13: no longer available] says this experimental camera can image “every single blade of grass” over an area of “four football fields” in one shot.

 

Granted that they’re using chemical film in the camera itself, but that film is scanned as soon as it’s processed, and all subsequent image manipulation is done digitally. The file resulting from a full-resolution scan of one such film is 24 GB, which does push the limits of current technology a bit. [2012Oct13: larger thumb drives now available]

 

While really not at all the same as what a cultibot would do in cataloging all of the plants within the area it tended, this does suggest that the level of complexity involved is within the reach of either current technology or what’s just around the corner. Maybe the database for a five-acre plot would occupy a few terabytes, but even that isn’t unmanageable. [2012Oct13: easily within desktop RAID capacities today]

 

Reposted from Cultibotics.



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