Marius Hobart

Marius Hobart is a Researcher at the Agromechatronics Department of the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) in Potsdam, Germany. His work focuses on UAV technology for agricultural monitoring, including 3D point cloud analysis, precision crop protection, and remote sensing applications.

• Key Research Areas:
  • Precision agriculture using drone-based photogrammetry
  • Disease and drought monitoring in crops
  • Automated fruit detection and yield estimation
  • Optimization of UAV flight parameters for data quality
• Projects:
  • AgriNose: UAV-based electronic nose systems for agricultural monitoring
  • SustInAfrica: Sustainable intensification of food production in Africa
  • CORONA-pro: Aerial robot platforms for precise crop protection

Scientific Contributions include automated algorithms for apple detection via RGB-to-HSV transformation, DBSCAN clustering, and sphere fitting to estimate fruit volume and mass. His 2025 study demonstrated superior performance at 10m UAV altitude compared to 7.5m for apple orchard mapping.