603 research outputs found
Artificial Neural Networks in Agriculture
Modern agriculture needs to have high production efficiency combined with a high quality of obtained products. This applies to both crop and livestock production. To meet these requirements, advanced methods of data analysis are more and more frequently used, including those derived from artificial intelligence methods. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are one of the most popular tools of this kind. They are widely used in solving various classification and prediction tasks, for some time also in the broadly defined field of agriculture. They can form part of precision farming and decision support systems. Artificial neural networks can replace the classical methods of modelling many issues, and are one of the main alternatives to classical mathematical models. The spectrum of applications of artificial neural networks is very wide. For a long time now, researchers from all over the world have been using these tools to support agricultural production, making it more efficient and providing the highest-quality products possible
Emerging thermal imaging techniques for seed quality evaluation: Principles and applications
Due to the massive progress occurred in the past few decades in imaging, electronics and computer
science, infrared thermal imaging technique has witnessed numerous technological advancement and
smart applications in non-destructive testing and quality monitoring of different agro-food produces.
Thermal imaging offers a potential non-contact imaging modality for the determination of various
quality traits based on the infrared radiation emitted from target foods. The technique has been moved
from just an exploration method in engineering and astronomy into an effective tool in many fields for
forming unambiguous images called thermograms eventuated from the temperature and thermal
properties of the target objects. It depends principally on converting the invisible infrared radiation
emitted by the objects into visible two-dimensional temperature data without making a direct contact
with the examined objects. This method has been widely used for different applications in agriculture
and food science and technology with special applications in seed quality assessment. This article
provides an overview of thermal imaging theory, briefly describes the fundamentals of the system and
explores the recent advances and research works conducted in quality evaluation of different sorts of
seeds. The article comprehensively reviewed research efforts of using thermal imaging systems in seed
applications including estimation of seed viability, detection of fungal growth and insect infections,
detection of seed damage and impurities, seed classification and variety identification.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio
Decision Support System Data for Farmer Decision Making
The capacity of farmers and agricultural scientists to be able to make in-season decisions is dependent on accurate climate, soil and plant data. This paper will provide a review of the types of environmental and crop data that can be collected by sensors which can used for decision support systems (DSS) or be further interrogated for real time data mining and analysis. This paper also presents a review of the data requirements for agricultural decision making by firstly reviewing decision support frameworks and agricultural DSSs, data acquisition, sensors for data acquisition and examples of data incorporation for agricultural DSSs
An Efficient Deep Learning-based approach for Recognizing Agricultural Pests in the Wild
One of the biggest challenges that the farmers go through is to fight insect
pests during agricultural product yields. The problem can be solved easily and
avoid economic losses by taking timely preventive measures. This requires
identifying insect pests in an easy and effective manner. Most of the insect
species have similarities between them. Without proper help from the
agriculturist academician it is very challenging for the farmers to identify
the crop pests accurately. To address this issue we have done extensive
experiments considering different methods to find out the best method among
all. This paper presents a detailed overview of the experiments done on mainly
a robust dataset named IP102 including transfer learning with finetuning,
attention mechanism and custom architecture. Some example from another dataset
D0 is also shown to show robustness of our experimented techniques
Precision Agriculture Technology for Crop Farming
This book provides a review of precision agriculture technology development, followed by a presentation of the state-of-the-art and future requirements of precision agriculture technology. It presents different styles of precision agriculture technologies suitable for large scale mechanized farming; highly automated community-based mechanized production; and fully mechanized farming practices commonly seen in emerging economic regions. The book emphasizes the introduction of core technical features of sensing, data processing and interpretation technologies, crop modeling and production control theory, intelligent machinery and field robots for precision agriculture production
Deterministic model approaches in identifying and quantifying technological challenges in rice production and research and in predicting population, rice production and consumption in Malaysia
In general, rice production and sufficiency is the main concern to all Asian countries in currently facing the
ever growing population and climatic uncertainties. The consumption in Malaysia relies largely on the locally
produced (70%) and imported (30%) rice for years. The price hike of this staple food, which can be categorized
as a security food crop with an annual production of 1.6 million tons (beras) yielded from about 650,000 ha
of the harvested paddy irrigated- and non-irrigated growing areas nationwide, could possibly be expensive
to the lower-income consumers. With “no further reduction” in the modelled per capita rice consumption
(82.3 kg/person/ year) versus the increasing population, various efforts must be made in term of research and
technological advancement, increased cropping hectarage, as well as active extension program to increase the
production of rice for consumption, self-sufficiency and more importantly, for having strong rice stock-file
accumulation. Based on the data gathered from the past 27-years (1980 – 2007), the deterministic mathematical
models of the Malaysian population, rice per capita consumption and five rice yield models versus years
(1980 – 2007 and 2008 – 2030) were developed and predicted. The proposed model was based on the
national average yields over the years and the model could be used to predict the yield ‘close’ to the nation’s
rice production in the years ahead. The data on the crop cutting test or survey were used for comparison
purposes. With the derivatives of the yield models, the quantitative technological advancement indexes were
used in identifying the research objective, scope and areas, as well as in quantifying the contribution of crops
and their management-related technologies in the past, present and predicted technological performances
in rice production. To reach sufficient rice production at a relatively faster rate, the scope of the research’s
objective should be based on the high yield model, in which the averaged yield could reach 13.4 t/ha in the
year 2030. The priority order of the research areas would be irrigation/water > crop establishment-related
management > sustainability of the existing management technology > large plot production-related adaptive
studies (technological uniformity studies) > continual varietal improvement. The local released varieties are
ecologically suited to the Malaysian rice growing areas, where varietal development and improvement are
generally time consuming. With the current planted hectareage, coupled with the inclusion of the planned
additional 100,000 ha (assumed to be staggered), as planned by the Ministry of Agriculture and with the
conversion of the non-fully to fully irrigated areas by 2012, the Malaysian rice self-sufficiency is predicted to
be observed/achieved in 2012. The ‘modified higher-order polynomial’ yield model which was conditioned with the scope of the above research objective and the area priorities predicts the rice production of 2.0, 4.4
and 9.1 million t/ha in 2010, 2020 and 2030, respectively. With the modelled minimum per capita consumption
(82.3 g/person/year) and the predicted population of 29.3 (2010), 36.7 (2020) and 45.7 million (2030), the
respective consumption, surplus and self-sufficiency would be 2.4, 3.0 and 3.8 million tons, -0.4, 1.3 and 5.3
million tons and 83, 144 and 241%, respectively. The surplus could then be used for the stock-pile accumulation
and export
Precision Agriculture Technology for Crop Farming
This book provides a review of precision agriculture technology development, followed by a presentation of the state-of-the-art and future requirements of precision agriculture technology. It presents different styles of precision agriculture technologies suitable for large scale mechanized farming; highly automated community-based mechanized production; and fully mechanized farming practices commonly seen in emerging economic regions. The book emphasizes the introduction of core technical features of sensing, data processing and interpretation technologies, crop modeling and production control theory, intelligent machinery and field robots for precision agriculture production
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