{"id":291441,"date":"2023-06-30T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=291441"},"modified":"2023-06-30T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T07:00:35","slug":"unconventional-methods-for-assessing-crop-losses-after-hailfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/unconventional-methods-for-assessing-crop-losses-after-hailfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconventional methods for assessing crop losses after hailfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prof. Hazem M. Kalaji&#8217;s team from the Department of Plant Physiology of the Institute of Biology at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW) is conducting research to develop a modern and non-invasive method of assessing yield losses following hailfall. Tests include an unconventional method of firing artificial hail from the air at oilseed rape plantations using a pneumatic machine gun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up to now, hail simulation has been obtained using a laboratory hail simulator, i.e. a punch, destroying the test material (plants) mechanically. Mathematical models have also been used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research taking place at SGGW concerns the development of a method for assessing yield losses based on classical measurements by professional damage controllers, ground-based chlorophyll fluorescence signals (photosynthetic plant productivity), multispectral imaging (drones) and remote sensing (using Sentiel-2 satellite data).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The research is being carried out as part of the collaboration between Prof. Hazem Kalaji and Dr Piotr D\u0105browski, Prof. SGGW, and companies that insure crops and harvests against weather-related losses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Hazem M. Kalaji&#8217;s team from the Department of Plant Physiology of the Institute of Biology at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW) is conducting research to develop a modern and non-invasive method of assessing yield losses following hailfall. Tests include an unconventional method of firing artificial hail from the air at oilseed rape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":291348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291448,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291441\/revisions\/291448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}