Design and field evaluation of a ground robot for high-throughput phenotyping of energy sorghum

Precision Agriculture - This article describes the design and field evaluation of a low-cost, high-throughput phenotyping robot for energy sorghum for use in biofuel production. High-throughput...     

A template-free machine vision-based crop row detection algorithm

Precision Agriculture - Due to the increase in the use of precision agriculture, field trials have increased in size to allow for genomic selection tool development by linking quantitative...     

A deep-level region-based visual representation architecture for detecting strawberry flowers in an outdoor field

Precision Agriculture - An accurate and robust strawberry flower representation and detection scheme is a key step to enable the reliable forecasting of fruit yield for use in precision...     

Hyperspectral remote sensing of grapevine drought stress

Precision Agriculture - In karst landscapes stony soils have little water holding capacity; the rational use of water for irrigation therefore plays an important management role. Because the water...     

Deep learning-based identification system of weeds and crops in strawberry and pea fields for a precision agriculture sprayer

Precision Agriculture - Controlling weed infestation through chemicals (herbicides & pesticides) is essential for crop yield. However, excessive use of these chemicals has caused severe...     

Modeling and design of an injection dosing system for site-specific management using liquid fertilizer

Precision Agriculture - A variable rate of fertilizer according to plant demand and placement (50–100 mm deep) beside roots are essential principles for improving nitrogen use...     

Providing Precision Farming Education Through Conferences and Workshops

In response to rapidly growing interest in precision farming, universities and others have developed numerous educational programs. Many of these events are multi-day conferences and workshops as these venues provide the time necessary for attendees to learn about the many technologies, analysis approaches, and management strategies that make up precision farming. The Washington State University Western Precision Agriculture Conference, the Assiniboine Community College Precision Agriculture Conference and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Crop Modeling for Environment-Specific Management Workshop exemplify these types of educational programs. The Western Precision Agriculture Conference uses a traditional format where the audience primarily listens to presentations. The Assiniboine Community College Precision Agriculture Conference provides a mixture of presentations and hands-on sessions where attendees actually use precision farming tools or develop site-specific management plans. Finally, those who attend the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Crop Modeling for Environment-Specific Management Workshop complete exercises related to each topic and presentation. Because a conference or workshop brings many experts together for a short period of time, organizers of all three events have tried to capture conference content for later use in other educational programs. Their approaches to this include videotaping interviews of conference speakers and assembling software and data used during the conference on compact disk. Given the multidisciplinary nature of precision farming, conferences and workshops that utilize multiple expert presenters such as those discussed in this paper are among the best sources of precision farming education.     

Improving soil property maps for precision agriculture in the presence of outliers using covariates

Precision Agriculture - This study aimed to evaluate the use of multiple covariates in robust geostatistical modeling of soil chemical properties characterized by the presence of outliers....     

Understanding the farm data lifecycle: collection,use, and impact of farm data on U.S. commercial corn and soybean farms

Precision Agriculture - Enthusiasm regarding the “digital agriculture” revolution is widespread, yet objective research on how commercial farms actually use data and data services...     

Synthesis of proximal sensing,terrain analysis,and parent material information for available micronutrient prediction in tropical soils

Precision Agriculture - In developing countries, the use of proximal and remotely sensed data is of critical importance as a less expensive means of obtaining soils information. While proximal...     

Use of fluorescence indices as predictors of crop N status and yield for greenhouse sweet pepper crops

Precision Agriculture - To increase nitrogen (N) use efficiency and reduce water pollution from vegetable production, it is necessary to optimize N management. Fluorescence-based optical sensors...     

精准农业——3S技术的应用

精准农业就是利用RS作宏观控制；用GPS精确定位地面位置；用GIS将地面信息（地形、地貌、作物种类和长势、土壤质地和养分、水分状况等）进行储存，按区内要素的空间变量数据，精确设定最佳耕作、施肥、播种、灌溉、喷药等多种操作，变传统的粗放经营为精细生产。精准农业不仅可以充分利用资源、降低不必要的投入、减少环境污染和取得最大的社会经济效益，而且，象工业一样，可望使农产品生产成为可控化、标准化、批量化。     

Evaluating the drivers of banana flowering cycle duration using a stochastic model and on farm production data

Precision Agriculture - The use of data produced by farmers to generate knowledge and to inform production decisions is one of the objectives of precision agriculture (PA). Frameworks to analyse...     

Water distribution analysis of a linear move irrigator by aerial survey and RTK-GNSS monitors

Precision Agriculture - Irrigation uniformity in a semi-arid climate remains one of the main factors of water use efficiency (WUE) regardless of the level of agronomic advance, since over- and...     

Do water dynamics and land use in riparian areas change the spatial pattern of physical–mechanical properties of a Cambisol?

Precision Agriculture - Changes in land use in riverside ecosystems added to the flood and ebb regimes of rivers modify the spatial variability of the physical–mechanical attributes of soil,...     

Manual geo-rectification to improve the spatial accuracy of ortho-mosaics based on images from consumer-grade unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Precision Agriculture - The global spatial accuracy of ortho-mosaics based on images from consumer-grade unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is relatively low. The use of ground control points (GCPs)...     

Automated crop plant counting from very high-resolution aerial imagery

Precision Agriculture - Knowing before harvesting how many plants have emerged and how they are growing is key in optimizing labour and efficient use of resources. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)...     

Acceptance of artificial intelligence in German agriculture: an application of the technology acceptance model and the theory of planned behavior

Precision Agriculture - The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture is expected to yield advantages such as savings in production resources, labor costs, and working hours as well as a...     

Prediction of soil nutrient content via pXRF spectrometry and its spatial variation in a highly variable tropical area

Precision Agriculture - Precision agriculture provides detailed information on the spatial variability of soil properties, including nutrient content, allowing for local-specific decision making....     

Proximal fluorescence sensing of potassium responsive crops to develop improved predictions of biomass,yield and grain quality of wheat and barley

Precision Agriculture - Precision nutrient management requires accurate assessment of crop nutrient status. This is common for assessing N status, but much less so for other nutrients. Because...