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Srdjan Acimovic
Assistant Professor
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech

Using Robotics, Imaging and AI to Tackle Apple Fruit Production: Crop Harvest and Fire Blight Disease, The Two Major Bottlenecks for U.S. Apple Producers

CIC CIC Buuilding Conference Room 1, LL Level

Abstract Temperate tree fruit production is a significant agricultural sector in the United States, encompassing a variety of fruits like apples, pears, cherries, peaches and plums. The U.S. is the second-largest producer of apples in the world, after China. Annual U.S. production is 10 - 11 billion pounds of apple. However, apple production is complicated [...]