Since its founding in 2020, the TUM Precision Agriculture Lab has been committed to empower smart farming research, education, and practice.


The BIGSTAR workshop successfully brought together internationally renowned scientists from across the world to discuss remote sensing technologies for global sustainable agricultural resources.

Members of the Precision Agriculture Lab at the Technical University of Munich participated in the European Plant Phenomics Symposium (EPPS 2025), held in Bonn, Germany, from 16–19 September 2025.
Professor Kang Yu, together with PhD candidates Wuhua Wang, Xiaoxin Song, and Fei Wu, represented the group and shared our recent activities in UAV-based field phenotyping.


Our research team has introduced a novel approach (Song et al. 2025) to quantify wheat senescence dynamics by integrating UAV-based multispectral imaging with generalized additive models (GAMs).
Unlike traditional methods that capture only single time points, this study tracked the entire senescence process throughout the growing season and validated it, in collaboration with Prof. Minceva’s Lab at TUM, using laboratory measurements of leaf anthocyanins. The results revealed clear nitrogen-related differences among wheat varieties, demonstrating that the area under the curve (AUC) of UAV-derived vegetation indices strongly correlates with grain yield.

We and our collaborators demonstrate how drone-based remote sensing and field spectroscopy can effectively monitor biodiversity in urban community gardens, improving our understanding on the Spectral-Biodiversity relationship.