Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered multispectral imaging camera sensors are revolutionizing the modern agricultural landscape. With specialized remote-sensing technology, farmers have even more visual information to monitor crop anomalies and manage their fields more efficiently. Multispectral imaging – whether aboard an aerial drone or land robot – provides precise, targeted information that the human eye is incapable …Continue reading »
Niagara College’s Bill MacDonald has jokingly referred to cannabis as “God’s gift to teaching.” By this, he means it’s the surest way to evoke attention from greenhouse technology students who found a topic too snooze-worthy – at the mere mention of how it also applies to the cannabis plant, all eyes were on him. “Everybody …Continue reading »
Please note that because of the COVID-19 spread, Niagara College has suspended all on-campus classes and has asked employees other than essential services to work remotely, as of Monday, March 16. This also means that no outside visitors are allowed on campus at this time. Until further notice, all applied research project work requiring presence on …Continue reading »
Flooding, severe storms, shorter winters, droughts – all of these weather conditions can have a significant impact on crops. Agriculture meteorologists offer specific weather forecasts to help farmers make decisions regarding their crops, or even preventative decisions if necessary. What if looking at weather data differently allowed growers the opportunity to determine crop suitability according …Continue reading »
A local robotics company has seen their assembly times cut in half and has experienced a “drastic” reduction in rework and quality issues. This is thanks to an engineering productivity assessment completed by Niagara College’s Walker Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre (WAMIC). St. Catharines-based Factory Surplus Direct (FSD) is a source for automation and robotics parts …Continue reading »
left: The 115-tonne gantry crane at CMI Heavy Industries that needed to get back into operation; right: Dave McKechnie, research laboratory technologist at WAMIC, performs the tricky laser scanning procedure in order to get precise measurements. Reverse engineering is the process of extracting design information from a device, object, or system through analysis of its …Continue reading »
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