BMC plant biology
Jul 7, 2025
Cucumber disease detection under complex agricultural conditions faces significant challenges due to multi-scale variation, background clutter, and hardware limitations. This study proposes YOLO-Cucumber, an improved lightweight detection algorithm b...
Scientific reports
Jul 2, 2025
Weed detection and classification using computer vision and deep learning techniques have emerged as crucial tools for precision agriculture, offering automated solutions for sustainable farming practices. This study presents a comprehensive approach...
Scientific reports
Jul 2, 2025
As the global population is expected to reach 10.3 billion by the mid-2080s, optimizing agricultural production and resource management is crucial. Climate change and environmental degradation further complicate these challenges, impacting crop produ...
Scientific reports
Jul 2, 2025
Climate change exacerbates the challenges of maintaining crop health by influencing invasive pest and disease infestations, especially for cereal crops, leading to enormous yield losses. Consequently, innovative solutions are needed to monitor crop h...
Scientific reports
Jul 1, 2025
Durian is a valuable tropical fruit whose pollination heavily relies on bats and nocturnal insects. However, environmental degradation and pesticide usage have reduced insect populations, leading to inefficient natural pollination. This study propose...
Scientific reports
Jul 1, 2025
Radon exhalation is a natural process by which atoms of the radioactive gas radon diffuse in the soil and then exhale to an indoor and/or outdoor environment. High radon concentration levels, possibly from high radon exhalation rate levels, can gener...
Scientific reports
Jul 1, 2025
Plant diseases cause major crop losses worldwide, making early detection essential for sustainable farming. Traditional methods need large training datasets, are expensive, and may overfit. In leaf image analysis, convolutional neural networks (CNNs)...
Journal of environmental management
Jun 28, 2025
Accurate prediction of agricultural production costs is crucial for sustainable development in Egypt, where productivity is highly sensitive to fluctuating economic and environmental conditions. This study introduces a hybrid machine learning model t...
Science robotics
Jun 11, 2025
Precision agriculture aims to increase crop yield while reducing the use of harmful chemicals, such as pesticides and excess fertilizer, using minimal, tailored interventions. However, these strategies are limited by factors such as sensor quality, w...
Scientific data
Jun 10, 2025
This article presents a dataset of oil palm Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFBs) images from commercial plantations in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, focusing on five maturity stages: Unripe, Underripe, Ripe, Flower, and Abnormal. The data collection involved ...