Robert Jackson

Biography

Robert is the lead UAV pilot and Senior Data Scientist within NIAB’s Data Science group lead by Ji Zhou. He is an expert in the use of remote sensing tool, including drones, to assess a variety of crops under field conditions. The Data Sciences group is combining phenotyping, genotyping and environmental data, to developing open-source hardware and software to address yield, quality, and disease related challenges for UK’s key agricultural and horticultural crops such as wheat, Brassica, strawberry, and orchard fruits.