Manoj Karkee, PhD
Datasets
All the labeled datasets produced can be accessed at #AgRobotics Repository provided by WSU Library
Links to sample datasets are below..
RGB-D Dataset of Apple Canopies Just Before Harvest (1600 images)
APPLE (IMAGE) DATASET (A set of ~2,300 standardized images collected in orchards with different apple varieties and tree architectures using different sensors)
Scifresh Apple Canopies During Harvest Season (with and without depth filtering)
Full-foliage Apple Canopies in Modern Fruiting Wall Architecture (3D Point Cloud)
Full-foliage Apple Canopies in Modern Fruiting Wall Architecture (Color Images)
Vineyard Canopy Images during Early Growth Stage
Cell-phone-based winegrape canopy images collected over the entire growing season
Conferences/Special Issues
2020-2021 Special Issue on “Sensing Technologies for Agricultural Robotics”
2019 Workshop on #AgRobotics, Sydney, Australia
AgriControl 2019: IFAC International Conference, Sydney, Australia
Bio-robotics 2018: IFAC International Conference, Beijing, China
AgriControl 2016: IFAC International Conference, Seattle, USA
Special Issue “Agriculture Robotics”, 2018
Special Issue on “Agricultural and Field Robotics”, 2019
Biography
Dr. Karkee was born and raised in Bhojpur, a mid-hill district of the Himalayan country of Nepal, some 400 km east of the capital city Kathmandu. After compl
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high school in his village, he moved to Kathmandu for his Associate and Undergraduate degrees. He received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering in 2002 from Tribhuvan University, then moved to Bangkok, Thailand to attend the Asian Institute of Technology where he earned his Master’s Degree in Remote Sensing and GIS. Dr. Karkee then spent the next five years in Ames, Iowa working on his doctoral research and education, earning his PhD in Agricultural Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction from Iowa State University in 2009.
Dr. Karkee joined Washington State University (WSU) in 2010 where he leads a strong research program in agricultural automation and mechanization area with a particular emphasis on machine vision and sensing technologies for agricultural automation and robotics. He has been working on numerous sponsored projects in this area, including apple crop load estimation, apple and cherry harvesting, fruit tree and berry bush pruning, blossom thinning, water and nutrient stress monitoring, weed control in vegetable crops, and Big-data based SMART irrigation system for winegrapes. Dr. Karkee has been actively publishing in such journals as ‘Journal of Field Robotics’, ‘Computers and Electronics in Agriculture’, ‘Biosystems Engineering’ and ‘The Transactions of ASABE’ and has frequently presented in national and international conferences. Dr. Karkee currently serves as an Associate Editor of ‘Transactions of the ASABE’ and ‘Applied Engineering in Agriculture’, and as a Guest Editor for ‘Robotics’. He is the elected chair of Technical Committee 8.1, Control in Agriculture, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) serving the term from, 2017 to 2020.
In his personal life, Dr. Karkee enjoys spending time with his family, singing Nepali songs, reading and writing literature, and playing sports including Volleyball and Badminton.
Some more about his life and profession, and some suggestions to the newer generation interested in #AgRobotics can be found below…