A5014242163- Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
- Recommender Systems and Techniques
- Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Agriculture and Biological Studies
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Music and Audio Processing
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant and fungal interactions
- Agricultural Science and Fertilization
Bern University of Applied Sciences
2013-2024
ETH Zurich
2018
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
2011
Agroscope
2006-2008
Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research
2006-2008
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2007
Federal Office for Agriculture
2002-2004
Agroécologie
2003
Timely availability of weed infestation maps is a key prerequisite for the implementation site-specific management practices. Low-altitude aerial imagery obtained from unmanned vehicles (UAVs) has shown significant potential detection in crops. However, most studies focused on wide-spaced row crops such as maize and sunflower evaluated proposed methods single or few well-characterized experimental sites at specific points time representing limited range application scenarios. This study...
Abstract Research and development activities on non‐chemical weed control methods to date have mainly focused mechanical thermal applications. Selectivity in is obtained using dynamically actuated harrows. through a certain heat tolerance of the crop. In conservation agriculture (CA), emergence partially suppressed by constant soil cover with crops or crops. Large amounts plant residues therefore remain soil, which make inefficient difficult implement. And need prevent not only crop damage...
Summary There is a lack of information on the combined effects preceding crop, reduced tillage (especially no‐tillage) and time herbicide application development weed populations efficiency control in winter wheat humid temperate climates. An experiment was conducted with crop rotation (winter – oilseed rape maize) sandy loam loamy silt soil Swiss midlands to investigate impact different crops pre‐ post‐emergence weeds conventional (CT; mouldboard plough), minimum (MT; chisel plough)...
Summary In 1991, a farming‐system comparison was established on Burgrain Farm (Alberswil) to investigate the long‐term sustainability of farming systems in Switzerland. this study, impacts three [organic (ORG), and integrated (IF) with an extensive (IF ext ) intensive int variant] weed dynamics diversity six fields planted winter wheat, maize, summer/winter barley, potatoes/oilseed rape temporary grassland are examined. Altogether, 51 plant species were recorded from 1999 2006 maize wheat...
Abstract In order to obtain information about the impact of legume cover crops on weed community in organic farming, winter wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) was directly drilled rows 0.1875 and 0.3750 m apart living mulches that consisted Trifolium repens L. (TRFRE), T. subterraneum (TRFSU), Medicago truncatula Gaertner (MEDTR), Lotus corniculatus (LOTCO). A control treatment without (NAT, site‐specific community) also established. The vegetation between wide either mulched or left undisturbed....
Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to farming capable of providing solutions for numerous the agri-environmental concerns in Europe. Certainly, most challenges addressed Common Policy (CAP) could be tackled through (CA). Not only ones, but also those concerning farmer and rural communities’ prosperity. The optimisation inputs similar yields than conventional tillage, make a profitable system compared tillage based agriculture. Whereas this sustainable agricultural was...
To investigate how tillage intensity modifies the small-scale spatial variability of soil and winter wheat parameters, field trials were conducted on small plots (12 m × 35 m) in three temperate environments Swiss midlands: Zollikofen 1999 (loamy silt soil; Gleyic Cambisol) Schafisheim 2000 (sandy loam Orthic Luvisol). Total nitrogen (Ntot), total carbon (Ctot) pH assessed after harvest. A regular nested grid pattern was applied with sampling intervals 3 1 at 0–30 cm a nine no-tillage (NT)...
Easy-to-capture and robust plant status indicators are important factors when implementing precision agriculture techniques on fields.In this study, aerial red, green blue color space (RGB) photography near-infrared (NIR) was performed an experimental field site with nine different cover crops.A lightweight unmanned system (UAS) served as platform, consumer cameras sensors.Photos were photogrammetrically processed to orthophotos digital surface models (DSMs).In a first validation step, the...
Ecological intensification aims to reduce environmental costs of agricultural production by increasing biodiversity and using the associated ecosystem services instead of, or in combination with, external inputs, so that yields are maintained at high levels increased. However, date there few measures available for which such benefits have already been demonstrated field. In this study, seeding pattern winter wheat fields was manipulated create a diversified crop architecture consisting...
Limited information exists on how tillage and nitrogen (N) fertilization affects small-scale variation in use efficiency (NUE) crop performance. In a two-year field study under temperate conditions, we investigated (NT, no-tillage; CT, conventional tillage) N affected the NUE winter wheat performance (grain yield, Gw; grain protein concentration, GPC). A randomized complete block design with three replications was used. Within each plot (12 × 35 m2), rates (0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250 kg ha−1)...