Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) represents the most innovative new trend
for processing remote sensing images that has appeared during the last decade. However…

Soil invertebrates are assumed to play a major role in ecosystem dynamics, since they are
involved in soil functioning. Functional traits represent one of the main opportunities to bring …

Many vocabularies and ontologies are produced to represent and annotate agronomic data.
However, those ontologies are spread out, in different formats, of different size, with different …

The Planteome project ( http://www.planteome.org ) provides a suite of reference and
species-specific ontologies for plants and annotations to genes and phenotypes. Ontologies serve …

Ecological research produces a tremendous amount of data, but the diversity in scales and
topics covered and the ways in which studies are carried out result in large numbers of small, …

Motivation Modern genomic breeding methods rely heavily on very large amounts of
phenotyping and genotyping data, presenting new challenges in effective data management and …

Enabling data reuse and knowledge discovery is increasingly critical in modern science,
and requires an effort towards standardising data publication practices. This is particularly …

The future of agricultural research depends on data. The sheer volume of agricultural biological
data being produced today makes excellent data management essential. Governmental …

Soil invertebrates are known to be much involved in soil behaviour and therefore in the
provision of ecosystem services. Functional trait-based approaches are methodologies which …

Modern breeding methods integrate next-generation sequencing and phenomics to identify
plants with the best characteristics and greatest genetic merit for use as parents in …