Lethbridge researcher awarded for AI-powered crop testing tech
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A researcher at Lethbridge Polytechnic was awarded a prestigious Research Innovation Award for using AI in developing a low cost, less-wasteful method of crop testing.
Dr. Chandra Singh is the Director of the Advanced Post-harvest Technology Centre, which specializes in management and eventual distribution of harvested crops including grains, pulses, oil seeds, potatoes and sugar beets.
Dr. Singh alongside colleagues from the University of Guelph and the University of Prince Edward Island, were able to utilize artificial intelligence to more accurately assess pulse crop quality without damaging them.
Dr. Singh says this imaging technology can be integrated throughout the pulse supply chain in Canada and abroad quickly. He theorizes this technology can be integrated within the grain industry within three to five years.
