This research area on Precision Phenotyping focuses on new phenotype* recording techniques, such as (1) high-throughput robotic sensors that offer opportunities to collect complex, and (2) detailed animal data at a high or even real-time frequency. These data can be used to define and predict new phenotypes for sustainability traits that were previously difficult and/or expensive to measure and analyse. Together with the research done in the program 'utilizing DNA information' this will result in more efficient genetic selection.
* This is the set of observable characteristics of an individual organism resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment