NC Cover Crops 2024/2025
- Matthew Kutugata
- Maria Perez
- Esleyther Henriquez Inoa
BBot V3.1 (SVCam)
Start1: 2024-12-02
End1: 2024-12-24 (due to camera issues)
Start2: 2025-02-03
Major Updates
Camera testing and configuration occurred throughout the month of November
SVCam was left outside Nov 20th, 2024 while it rained
Markers were removed or swapped throughout Dec and Jan for making the plastic removal process
2025-02-03 - markers were added and Target Marker Setup | Additional markers for NC
Esleyther updated all new markers so they are sealed and no water can go in.
Markers 497 was replaced with 496 and 498 was replaced with 495, Fedex lost those markes so i used unuse numbers.
As of Feb 25th, 2025, pot count per species/potting groups are:
winter pea large - 49 pots
hairy vetch large - 37 pots
March 10th, 2025
Decided we will not take images of high plants
Testing
Batch Logs
batch_id | Notes | # of images taken | aperture | focus | flash | x-axis start (cm) | z-axis height (cm) | pots per row(cm) | row spacing (cm) | pot spacing (cm) | # of rows | Report |
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NC_2025-04-02 | Smooth run. nothing to report as of now. | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 59 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-31 | Great run! Made a lot progress with staking the tall plants as well. Wifi signal was very weak last week and this morning, so a majority of the data collection today was required to finish uploading images from 3/28. | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 59 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-28 | Smooth run, nothing to report. | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 59 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-26 | Had to restart the run shortly in, because ‘auto-control’ was not activated. | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 59 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-21 | Data Collection was a success. No issues or interferences to report. | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 59 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-19 | Complete run, nothing to report as of now. images will be inspected asap. | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 59 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-17 | Another solid, complete run. Nothing to report today. A small portion of the Amiga wheel base is in some images. | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 58 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-14 | Good run. Power cable was affixed to the z axis arm to prevent it from getting pulled out. | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 58 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-12 | A very smooth, complete run! Nothing to report today. The Reberg-Horton field team will try to finish installing stakes for the tall plants tomorrow (3/13). | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 58 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-10 | Image collection was stopped about 1/2 way through the last potting group (Vetch) due to the following reasons: it began to drizzle, the cables interfered with the rain cover’s ability to stay on, the flash stopped triggering, but images continued being captured with the error message, “image failed to upload”. Additionally, the weather radar showed an incoming rain front. | 498 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 58 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-07 | Not much to report about this run yet! Images from 3/06 and 3/07 will be inspected as soon as possible. | 570 | F/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 59 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-06 | Less images than normal were collected, possibly due to the row spacing being set to 43 instead of 40. Additionally, while lowering the camera after the run, the green power cable got caught and pulled out of the camera. It has been fixed, and camera operation did not appear to be affected (confirmed after testing). | 545 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 59 | 170 | 15 | 43 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-03-03 | Smooth run. Berseem clover is getting very large. 6 large vetch were removed, bringing the existing potting group down to 50% density. 2 new potting groups for Vetch and Winterpea are ready to be distributed after camera testing. | 570 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 59 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-02-28 | Image orientation has changed to display the image rotated by 180 degrees, the images appear “upside down”. Bbot had x-axis starting issues. The first 3-4 pots were not captured because of x-traversal misalignment. Instead extra images of the bbot wheels were taken. 2 additional Winterpea and 8 Vetch removed. 307/572 images uploaded as of 2/28 3:58PM EST | 572 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | suspected to be 114 | 170 | 15 | 40 | 43 | 50 | 
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NC_2025-02-26 | Not much to note about this run. Images have not yet started uploading. Files will be monitored for BMP format. No BMPs were uploaded for this batch. Images are being successfully uploaded. | 585 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 56 |
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NC_2025-02-24 | 13 additional Winterpea, and 9 Vetch removed from potting area. Upload speed running very slow. NC_1740419261 & NC_1740419702 appear dark may be due to a lapse in preprocessing. 40 BMPs were uploaded. Reason is unknown. Total images in folder would be 642. | 602 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 57 |
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NC_2025-02-21 | 1 Vetch removed. 1 Winter guard fully installed, and PVC installed for the second. The measurements were incorrect for one of the plastic covers so more is being ordered. Rebar and markers will be installed as soon as possible. | 569 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 57 |
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NC_2025-02-17 | 9 Winterpea and 11 Vetch were removed from the potting groups. A matte coat was applied to all of the markers. | 585 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 56 |
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NC_2025-02-14 | 8 additional Vetch and 12 additional Winterpea were removed from the potting area. A glare on some of the markers was noticed in the previous collection, and will be inspected for in this collection. An additional coat of matte clear paint will be applied if need be. | 571 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 56 |
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NC_2025-02-07 | 2 markers from the first intermediate row were removed (on 2-06-2025) for inspection of water damage. Lamination on existing markers failed, and new markers will be installed before the following data collection. Overall a good run. | 571 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 56 |
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NC_2025-02-05 | 571 images collected. Color checker missing from the Berseem group. Try to remember to place both passport and large color checkers going forward. 15 pots from Winterpea, and 8 pots from Vetch were removed to start seperate potting groups for tall & wide plants. Some of the pots that were removed were small. These need to be returned and only larger plants should be removed. | 571 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 57 |
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NC_2025-02-03 | Major updates to markers. No major issues. smooth run. Geo locations of markers were captured during the run. | 585 | f/12 | 20.75 | 1/1 | 56 |
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NC_2025-01-28 | Testing: Collected 564. No major issues to report. Minor issue may include Maria accidentally being in one of the images. (missing markers) |
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NC_2025-01-27 | Testing: Had to stop the run because it started raining but I turned the benchbot back on to allow the images to upload (missing markers) |
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NC_2025-01-14 | Testing with new SVCam |
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NC_2024-12-24 | Pryia and I discovered Friday evening the SV cam on the NCSU BB has a hardware fault and cannot be communicated with at all. (The ethernet port is completely dead). Pirya, Esleyther, and Maria Laura to get on a call with folks from the SVCam company (Bruce Butkus). |
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NC_2024-12-19 | Problems with the SVCam, no images. |
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NC_2024-12-16 | 1120/1500 images taken |
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NC_2024-12-12 | True Start Time: 12:36 PM EST |
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NC_2024-12-06 | 1:10 PM EST Start Time |
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NC_2024-12-04 | Data collection competed at 3:06 PM EST |
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Species Target Markers
Table 1. Table of the Target Markers within the potting area.
Plant Examples
