FoA 282: Open Source Weed Control with Guy Coleman and William Salter of OWL

<p>OWL GitHub <a href= "https://github.com/geezacoleman/OpenWeedLocator">https://github.com/geezacoleman/OpenWeedLocator</a></p> <p>Weed AI <a href= "https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/about">https://weed-ai.sydney.edu.au/about</a> </p> <p>Guy Coleman Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/GeezaColeman">https://twitter.com/GeezaColeman</a></p> <p>William Salter Twitter: <a href= "https://twitter.com/williamtsalter">https://twitter.com/williamtsalter</a> </p> <p>Video: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guy-coleman_the-openweedlocator-owl-is-now-live-its-ugcPost-6835703385925283840-LdvF"> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guy-coleman_the-openweedlocator-owl-is-now-live-its-ugcPost-6835703385925283840-LdvF</a> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On the show today we have Guy Coleman, and William Salter. Guy is PhD Student at the University of Sydney and Fulbright Future Scholar currently based at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the interaction between artificial intelligence for weed recognition and plant morphology in large-scale production systems. Guy also has experience in alternative weed control technologies like lasers and targeted tillage.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Willam Salter, who you will also hear called by his nickname in this episode, Tam, is a postdoctoral agricultural scientist at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on several important aspects of plant and weed science, ranging from improving crop productivity to killing weeds more effectively. William has a keen interest in developing new low cost tools for use in scientific research and the agricultural industry.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The project is called the Open Weed Locator or OWL for short. My two guests today are leading the efforts to develop an open source, low cost weed detection and control device. Essentially, it’s a site-specific spot spraying system that you can make yourself for around $400. Right now, it’s only designed for fallow type weed control scenarios be