Download or read book Sensing Technologies For Precision Irrigation written by Dubravko Ćulibrk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief provides an overview of state-of-the-art sensing technologies relevant to the problem of precision irrigation, an emerging field within the domain of precision agriculture. Applications of wireless sensor networks, satellite data and geographic information systems in the domain are covered. This brief presents the basic concepts of the technologies and emphasizes the practical aspects that enable the implementation of intelligent irrigation systems. The authors target a broad audience interested in this theme and organize the content in five chapters, each concerned with a specific technology needed to address the problem of optimal crop irrigation. Professionals and researchers will find the text a thorough survey with practical applications.
Download or read book Sensing Approaches for Precision Agriculture written by Ruth Kerry and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensing Approaches for Precision Agriculture aims to bring together the ‘state of the art’ of the most popular sensing techniques and the current state of research on the application of sensors in Precision Agriculture (PA). Sensing is of great value in PA because it provides cheap and immediate data for management. This book gives a broad overview of sensing in PA and a coherent introduction for new professionals and research scientists. Readers are introduced to the potential applications of a range of different sensors, how they should be used properly and their limitations for use in PA. Chapters on specific topics and case studies provide depth and enable implementation of the methods by users. A general introduction about sensing techniques in PA is followed by Chapters 2–9 on the most important specific techniques in sensing and Chapters 10–13 include mini-case studies, each showing cutting-edge applications for different sensing methods. Finally, there is an Epilogue on how we expect sensors and analysis to develop.
Download or read book Problems Perspectives and Challenges of Agricultural Water Management written by Manish Kumar and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food security emerged as an issue in the first decade of the 21st Century, questioning the sustainability of the human race, which is inevitably related directly to the agricultural water management that has multifaceted dimensions and requires interdisciplinary expertise in order to be dealt with. The purpose of this book is to bring together and integrate the subject matter that deals with the equity, profitability and irrigation water pricing; modelling, monitoring and assessment techniques; sustainable irrigation development and management, and strategies for irrigation water supply and conservation in a single text. The book is divided into four sections and is intended to be a comprehensive reference for students, professionals and researchers working on various aspects of agricultural water management. The book seeks its impact from the diverse nature of content revealing situations from different continents (Australia, USA, Asia, Europe and Africa). Various case studies have been discussed in the chapters to present a general scenario of the problem, perspective and challenges of irrigation water use.
Download or read book Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture written by Salim Lamine and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture: Transforming Scientific Advancement into Innovation compiles the latest applications of remote sensing in agriculture using spaceborne, airborne and drones’ geospatial data. The book presents case studies, new algorithms and the latest methods surrounding crop sown area estimation, determining crop health status, assessment of vegetation dynamics, crop diseases identification, crop yield estimation, soil properties, drone image analysis for crop damage assessment, and other issues in precision agriculture. This book is ideal for those seeking to explore and implement remote sensing in an effective and efficient manner with its compendium of scientifically and technologically sound information. Presents a well-integrated collection of chapters, with quality, consistency and continuity Provides the latest RS techniques in Precision Agriculture that are addressed by leading experts Includes detailed, yet geographically global case studies that can be easily understood, reproduced or implemented Covers geospatial data, with codes available through shared links
Download or read book Advances in Sensor Technology for Sustainable Crop Production written by Craig Lobsey and published by Burleigh Dodds Agricultural Sc. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reviews key advances in sensor technology, including developments in proximal and remote sensing techniques to measure and monitor crop health, weeds and diseases.
Download or read book Smart Sensing Technology for Agriculture and Environmental Monitoring written by Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on the different aspects of sensing technology, i.e. high reliability, adaptability, recalibration, information processing, data fusion, validation and integration of novel and high performance sensors specifically aims to monitor agricultural and environmental parameters. This book is dedicated to Sensing systems for Agricultural and Environmental Monitoring offers to variety of users, namely, Master and PhD degree students, researchers, practitioners, especially Agriculture and Environmental engineers. The book will provide an opportunity of a dedicated and a deep approach in order to improve their knowledge in this specific field.
Download or read book Precision Agriculture Technologies for Food Security and Sustainability written by Abd El-Kader, Sherine M. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precision agriculture integrates new technologies with the agronomic experience to intelligently manage the high spatial variability of all agricultural variables and the time scales at which these variables change. The right application of this approach increases the size and quality of the agricultural production; saves resources; improves environmental quality; helps to achieve self-sufficiency, food security, and agricultural sustainability; increases exports; and more. Precision Agriculture Technologies for Food Security and Sustainability is an essential reference source that compiles a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of current research in the field of precision agriculture. It also discusses cutting-edge tools and models that can help facilitate and improve the systems implementation. Featuring coverage of a wide range of topics including agronomy, public policy, and internet of things, this book is ideally designed for agriculturalists, government officials, economists, environmentalists, academicians, researchers, students, and engineers in the fields of electronics, ICT, and agriculture.
Download or read book Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks written by Vidushi Sharma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advances in low-power electronic devices integrated with wireless communication capabilities are one of recent areas of research in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). One of the major challenges in WSNs is uniform and least energy dissipation while increasing the lifetime of the network. This is the first book that introduces the energy efficient wireless sensor network techniques and protocols. The text covers the theoretical as well as the practical requirements to conduct and trigger new experiments and project ideas. The advanced techniques will help in industrial problem solving for energy-hungry wireless sensor network applications.
Download or read book Women in Precision Agriculture written by Takoi Khemais Hamrita and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features influential scholarly research and technical contributions, professional trajectories, disciplinary shifts, personal insights, and a combination of these from a group of remarkable women scholars within precision agriculture. The authors provide a holistic and critical overview of the field of precision agriculture (both crop and livestock), highlighting breakthroughs and impactful research led by women investigators including relevant technologies, decision making strategies, practices, applications, economics, opportunities and challenges. They discuss the urgent need for reduced cost, increased productivity, more optimal use of resources, and reduced impact on our environment. The leading female researchers contributing to this book are creating new technological advances that are revolutionizing agriculture. Focuses on advances in precision agriculture led by leading women researchers, scholars, and professionals; Provides insight into women’s technical contributions in precision agriculture; Takes a holistic approach to precision agriculture, addressing both land and livestock applications.
Download or read book Sensors in Agriculture written by Dimitrios Moshou and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture requires technical solutions for increasing production while lessening environmental impact by reducing the application of agro-chemicals and increasing the use of environmentally friendly management practices. A benefit of this is the reduction of production costs. Sensor technologies produce tools to achieve the abovementioned goals. The explosive technological advances and developments in recent years have enormously facilitated the attainment of these objectives, removing many barriers for their implementation, including the reservations expressed by farmers. Precision agriculture and ‘smart farming’ are emerging areas where sensor-based technologies play an important role. Farmers, researchers, and technical manufacturers are joining their efforts to find efficient solutions, improvements in production, and reductions in costs. This book brings together recent research and developments concerning novel sensors and their applications in agriculture. Sensors in agriculture are based on the requirements of farmers, according to the farming operations that need to be addressed.
Download or read book Precision Agriculture Technology and Economic Perspectives written by Søren Marcus Pedersen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents cases from different countries with a main focus on the perspectives of using precision farming in Europe. Divided into 12 chapters it addresses some of the most recent developments and aspects of precision farming. The intention of this book is to provide an overview of some of the most promising technologies with precision agriculture from an economic point of view. Each chapter has been put together so that it can be read individually should the reader wish to focus on one particular topic. Precision Farming as a farm technology benefits from large-scale advantages due to relatively high investment costs and is primarily adopted on farms with medium to large field areas.
Download or read book Internet of Things IoT based Precision Irrigation with LoRaWAN Technology Applied to Vegetable Production written by Haozhe Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precision irrigation with sensors has proven to be effective for water saving in crop production. Internet of things (IoT) system is necessary for monitoring real-time data from sensors and automating irrigation systems. Long-range wide-area network (LoRaWAN), a type of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN), is low-cost and easy to be implemented in IoT systems that can be used for precision crop irrigation. In this study, an IoT-based precision irrigation system with LoRaWAN technology was developed and evaluated as a precision management tool on fresh-market tomato production in an open field. Four irrigation scheduling treatments were designed and tested, including ET (ETc), MP60 (Watermark 200SS-5 soil matric potential sensors, -60 kPa), MP40 (Watermark 200SS-5 soil matric potential sensors, -40 kPa), and GesCoN (decision support system). The treatments were arranged based on a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with four replications. System feasibility, yield, quality, and irrigation water use efficiency (iWUE) were evaluated during the experiment. The results indicated that treatment MP60 and GesCoN had a marketable yield 15.2% and 22.1% higher than ET, respectively. MP40 had a marketable yield 12.5% lower than ET. GesCoN had a significantly higher yield than ET and MP40. However, MP60 did not produce significantly different results from GesCoN and ET but had higher yield than MP40. MP40 received relatively low water via irrigation because of unproper installation and positioning of the soil moisture sensors, which caused a higher incidence of blossom end-rot and thus lower marketable yield. These results suggest the importance of installing sensors in multiple sections of a given field to ensure soil moisture reading are representative of the actual field conditions. Results from MP60 were not significantly different from GesCoN and ET on marketable fruit numbers, fruit dry matter, fruit total soluble solids (TSS), and iWUE. Nevertheless, the LoRaWAN-based IoT system worked well in terms of power consumption, communication, sensors reading and valve control. It can be potentially implemented for precision and automatic irrigation operation in vegetable fields.
Download or read book Modern Technologies in Agriculture Sensing Approaches written by Elsie Kennedy and published by Syrawood Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensor is a device that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment such as light, heat, motion, moisture and pressure. Agriculture sensors are sensors used in smart farming that help in heat detection, animal identification and health monitoring. There are several types of agricultural sensors including electronic sensors, location sensors, mechanical sensors, optical sensors, airflow sensors, and dielectric soil-moisture sensors. The use of remote sensing techniques to schedule nitrogen fertilization can assist in reducing the risk of harvest loss by providing a suitable rate of nitrogen at the time and place where it is needed by the crops. Precision agriculture entails the use of sensor technologies for nutrient and pesticide application, yield mapping and prediction, irrigation control, and soil sensing. This book contains some path-breaking studies on the application of sensors in agriculture. It will serve as a valuable source of reference for graduate and postgraduate students.
Download or read book Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century written by and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1997-09-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensors, satellite photography, and multispectral imaging are associated with futuristic space and communications science. Increasingly, however, they are considered part of the future of agriculture. The use of advanced technologies for crop production is known as precision agriculture, and its rapid emergence means the potential for revolutionary change throughout the agricultural sector. Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century provides an overview of the specific technologies and practices under the umbrella of precision agriculture, exploring the full implications of their adoption by farmers and agricultural managers. The volume discusses how precision agriculture could dramatically affect decisionmaking in irrigation, crop selection, pest management, environmental issues, and pricing and market conditions. It also examines the geographical dimensions--farm, regional, national--of precision agriculture and looks at how quickly and how widely the agricultural community can be expected to adopt the new information technologies. Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century highlights both the uncertainties and the exciting possibilities of this emerging approach to farming. This book will be important to anyone concerned about the future of agriculture: policymakers, regulators, scientists, farmers, educators, students, and suppliers to the agricultural industry.
Download or read book Model Reduction and Remote Sensing for Precision Irrigation Applications written by Soumya Ranjan Sahoo and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two-thirds of the world population faces severe water stress at least once per month in a year. The rapidly growing population exacerbates freshwater scarcity. Additionally, climate change, pollution, and bio-energy demands amplify the water demand problem. Since a large percentage of freshwater withdrawals are for agricultural irrigation, increasing water-use efficiency in irrigation becomes extremely important. Closed-loop irrigation is one of the precision irrigation techniques which has the potential to improve water-use efficiency than the traditional approaches. Due to the large-scale features of agricultural fields and significant uncertainty, there are significant challenges associated with closed-loop irrigation including sensor placement, data assimilation, and controller design. This thesis addresses some of the major challenges of applying closed-loop irrigation in the actual fields by proposing novel methods. Due to the availability of a limited number of sensors, in a typical agricultural field, it is essential to know the minimum number of sensors and optimal location of the sensors to estimate the field's soil moisture. The structure-preserving graph-based approach is used to reduce the order of a large-scale system model. A systematic approach has been developed to find the minimum number and best location of the sensors using observability and degree of observability analysis. In some irrigation implementing systems, the irrigation amount is non-uniform in spatial directions. In these scenarios, one reduced model for the whole time may not capture all the dynamics of a large-scale field or may increment the order of the resulting reduced model. Dynamic model reduction is proposed to handle these scenarios, where different reduced models are computed at different periods of time. Further, the sensor placement using dynamic reduced order is developed. Next, the framework for the state estimation of the large-scale field using the advanced optimization-based moving horizon estimation (MHE) is developed. The trajectory-based unsupervised machine learning method is proposed for adaptive model reduction of very large agricultural fields. Further, the algorithm of the existing MHE is modified to handle the adaptive reduced model. The proposed approach is applied to estimate the states of a real-agricultural field scenario located in Lethbridge, Canada. Afterward, an optimization-based closed-loop scheduler for large agricultural fields to provide optimal irrigation time and the amount is developed. The structure-preserving model reduction is used to decrease the dimension of the three-dimensional model. The scheduler has an objective similar to the economic zone MPC. In addition to that, time is also a decision variable to the optimization problem. The final objective is to maximize the yield while minimizing the water consumption and maximizing the time between the irrigation events. Further, the algorithm for surface soil moisture estimation using the thermal and optical remote sensing method is developed. The machine learning-based Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model is used to estimate the surface soil moisture. Due to the time-varying nature of the agro-hydrological model, the LSTM model is more preferred than the static neural network model. The LSTM based model is trained to obtain the surface soil moisture from the remote sensing images and the weather conditions. The developed method is applied to a real-agricultural farm located in Lethbridge, Canada using the experimental data collected in summer 2019. In this thesis, the details of the study area and experimental data collection procedure for experiments conducted in summer 2019 and 2020 at an agricultural field and a golf club are provided.
Download or read book Intelligent Environmental Sensing written by Henry Leung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing environmental sensing and monitoring technologies become essential especially for industries that may cause severe contamination. Intelligent environmental sensing uses novel sensor techniques, intelligent signal and data processing algorithms, and wireless sensor networks to enhance environmental sensing and monitoring. It finds applications in many environmental problems such as oil and gas, water quality, and agriculture. This book addresses issues related to three main approaches to intelligent environmental sensing and discusses their latest technological developments. Key contents of the book include: Agricultural monitoring Classification, detection, and estimation Data fusion Geological monitoring Motor monitoring Multi-sensor systems Oil reservoirs monitoring Sensor motes Water quality monitoring Wireless sensor network protocol.
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and IoT Based Technologies for Sustainable Farming and Smart Agriculture written by Tomar, Pradeep and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As technology continues to saturate modern society, agriculture has started to adopt digital computing and data-driven innovations. This emergence of “smart” farming has led to various advancements in the field, including autonomous equipment and the collection of climate, livestock, and plant data. As connectivity and data management continue to revolutionize the farming industry, empirical research is a necessity for understanding these technological developments. Artificial Intelligence and IoT-Based Technologies for Sustainable Farming and Smart Agriculture provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of critical technological solutions within the farming industry. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as crop monitoring, precision livestock farming, and agronomic data processing, this book is ideally designed for farmers, agriculturalists, product managers, farm holders, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, industrialists, governmental professionals, researchers, academicians, and students seeking current research on technological applications within agriculture and farming.