Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sep 3, 2020
Due to the rich vitamin content in citrus fruit, citrus is an important crop around the world. However, the yield of these citrus crops is often reduced due to the damage of various pests and diseases. In order to mitigate these problems, several con...
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
Aug 24, 2020
BACKGROUND: Barley is one of the strategic agricultural products available in the world, and yield prediction is important for ensuring food security. One way of estimating a product is to use remote sensing data in conjunction with field data and me...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Aug 17, 2020
Rapid population growth and agricultural development are generating a considerable amount of effluents, which poses threats to the quality of rural water resources as well as sanitary conditions. However, with a range of rural wastewater treatment (W...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 24, 2020
Smart agriculture based on new types of sensors, data analytics and automation, is an important enabler for optimizing yields and maximizing efficiency to feed the world's growing population while limiting environmental pollution. The aim of this pap...
Water research
Jul 11, 2020
Assessing the hydrologic processes over scales ranging from single wetland to regional is critical to understand the hydrologically-driven ecosystem services especially nutrient buffering of wetlands. Here, we present a novel approach to quantify the...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Apr 29, 2020
Precision agriculture is considered to be a fundamental approach in pursuing a low-input, high-efficiency, and sustainable kind of agriculture when performing site-specific management practices. To achieve this objective, a reliable and updated descr...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Feb 29, 2020
Smart agricultural sensing has enabled great advantages in practical applications recently, making it one of the most important and valuable systems. For outdoor plantation farms, the prediction of climate data, such as temperature, wind speed, and h...
Current opinion in biotechnology
Feb 18, 2020
Human population growth and accelerated climate change necessitate agricultural improvements using designer crop ideotypes (idealized plants that can grow in niche environments). Diverse and highly skilled research groups must integrate efforts to br...
Scientific reports
Jan 20, 2020
In agricultural robotics, a unique challenge exists in the automated planting of bulbous plants: the estimation of the bulb's growth direction. To date, no existing work addresses this challenge. Therefore, we propose the first robotic vision framewo...
Environmental monitoring and assessment
Nov 23, 2019
The Nile Delta of Egypt is increasingly facing sustainability threats, due to a combination of nature- and human-induced changes in land cover and land use. In this paper, an analysis of big time series data from remotely sensed satellite images and ...