Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Virginia Tech develops UAV to detect airborne pathogens above agricultural fields

"David Schmale prepares to collect Fusarium samplesA Virginia Tech plant pathologist has developed autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to detect airborne pathogens above agricultural fields.

David Schmale, assistant professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has not only linked agriculture and engineering with his interdisciplinary research but has also given scientists an unprecedented glimpse into the life of microorganisms hundreds of meters above the surface of the earth."

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