Workshop: BridgIng the Gap in Space and Time for global sustAinable crop nutRient management (BIGSTAR)
Date
Nov 6, 2025 12:00 AM — Nov 7, 2025 2:00 PM
Event
International Workshop
📍 Venue
TUM Weihenstephan Campus
IGZW Conference Room (3rd Floor)
Gregor-Mendel-Str. 4, 85354 Freising, Germany
🗓️ Day 1 – Thursday, 6 November 2025
| Time | Session | Speaker / Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 – 13:10 | Opening and Welcome | Prof. Kang Yu, Technical University of Munich |
| 13:10 – 13:55 | Remote Sensing-based Precision Nitrogen Management: Recent Advances at University of Minnesota | Prof. Yuxin Miao, Director, Precision Agriculture Center, University of Minnesota, USA |
| 13:55 – 14:40 | Remote Sensing-based Crop N Prediction | Prof. Fei Li, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, China |
| 14:40 – 15:15 | Farm Management Information Systems and Farming Technology Innovations for Crop Management | Prof. Heinz Bernhardt, Chair of Agricultural Systems Engineering, TUM, Germany |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | ☕ Break | |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Variable Rate Nutrient Work in Georgia, and Network with Faculty and Students | Dr. Leonardo M. Bastos, Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture, University of Georgia, USA |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Technical Advances of UAV Remote Sensing for Crop Sensing | Prof. Georg Bareth, Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Germany |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | Chlorophyll Fluorescence Quantification for Crop Stress Detection Using Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery | Prof. Pablo Zarco-Tejada, QuantaLab IAS-CSIC, Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, CSIC, Spain |
| 17:45 – 18:30 | Discussion & Networking | Moderated by Prof. Kang Yu |
| 18:30 – 21:00 | 🍽️ Dinner at Bräustüberl Weihenstephan | Informal networking |
🗓️ Day 2 – Friday, 7 November 2025
| Time | Session | Speaker / Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 – 08:45 | Leveraging Remote Sensing for Improving Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Yield Prediction | Dr. Francisco Pinto Espinosa, Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands |
| 08:45 – 09:30 | Remote Sensing for Nutrient Management in Space and Time | Dr. Frank Liebisch, Agroscope, Switzerland |
| 09:30 – 10:15 | Satellite-Based Assessment of Yield Variability – A Basis for Developing Site-Specific Management Strategies in Nitrate-Polluted Regions | Dr. Martin Mittermayer, Chair of Organic Agriculture and Agronomy, TUM, Germany |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | ☕ Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Advances in Utilizing Farm Accountancy Data for the Analysis of Nitrogen Indicators in Germany | Dr. Philip Löw, Thünen Institute of Rural Studies, Germany |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Using Sensors in Precision Farming: If It Is Challenging for Researchers, Why Shouldn’t It Be for Farmers? Lessons from On-Farm Experimentation | Prof. Francesco Morari, DAFNAE, University of Padova, Italy |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Adoption and Economics of Variable Rate Technology | Dr. Markus Gandorfer, Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture (LfL), Germany |
| 12:45 – 13:30 | TBD | Prof. **N.N **, University, |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Discussion and Concluding Remarks | Prof. Kang Yu, TUM |
🌍 Organizers
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture (LfL)
Precision Agriculture Center, University of Minnesota
🛰️ Themes
- Remote sensing innovations for nitrogen monitoring and crop stress detection across scales.
- UAV, sensor, and AI technologies advancing precision agriculture and yield prediction.
- Data integration and digital farming systems, from modeling to farm management tools.
- On-farm experimentation and adoption toward more sustainable nutrient management.
📞 Contact
Dr. Yuncai Hu
Precision Agriculture Lab, TUM
✉️ yc.hu@tum.de
🌐 https://paglab.org/event/workshop-bigstar
Prof. Dr. Kang Yu
Professor of Precision Agriculture
My research interests include precision crop farming, hyperspectral remote sensing, and AI in agriculture.
PD. Dr. Yuncai Hu
Senior Researcher
My research interests include Remote sensing, Precision N nutrient management, Plant phenotyping for complex traits of abiotic stress tolerance, Agricultural N emissions, and Physiological mechanisms of plant responses to abiotic stresses.