A5060142166- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Plant and soil sciences
- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
- Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century
- Potato Plant Research
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces
- Date Palm Research Studies
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2015-2024
Institut de Recherche en Génie Civil et Mécanique
2024
École Centrale de Nantes
2024
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2024
Nantes Université
2024
Centre for Automation and Robotics
2022
Politecnico di Milano
2001
Research International (United States)
2001
Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia
2001
East Malling Research (United Kingdom)
2001
Feeding the growing global population requires an annual increase in food production. This requirement suggests use of pesticides, which represents unsustainable chemical load for environment. To reduce pesticide input and preserve environment while maintaining necessary level production, efficiency relevant processes must be drastically improved. Within this context, research strived to design, develop, test assess a new generation automatic robotic systems effective weed pest control aimed...
Many species of insect pests can be detected and monitored automatically. Several systems have been designed in order to improve integrated pest management (IPM) the context precision agriculture. Automatic detection traps developed for many important pests. These techniques new technologies are very promising early monitoring aggressive quarantine The aim present paper is review scientific state art use sensors automatic focuses on methods identification based infrared sensors, audio...
The aim of this research was to implement a methodology through the generation supervised classifier based on Mahalanobis distance characterize grapevine canopy and assess leaf area yield using RGB images. method automatically processes sets images, calculates areas (number pixels) corresponding seven different classes (Grapes, Wood, Background, four Leaf, increasing age). Each one is initialized by user, who selects set representative pixels for every class in order induce clustering around...
Time-resolved reflectance spectroscopy can be used to assess nondestructively the bulk (rather than superficial) optical properties of highly diffusive media. A fully automated system for time-resolved was evaluate absorption and transport scattering spectra fruits in red near-infrared regions. In particular, data were collected range 650-1000 nm from three varieties apples peaches, kiwifruits, tomatoes. The usually dominated by water peak near 970 nm, whereas chlorophyll detected at 675 nm....
In this study, the evaluation of accuracy and performance a light detection ranging (LIDAR) sensor for vegetation using distance reflection measurements aiming to detect discriminate maize plants weeds from soil surface was done. The study continues previous work carried out in field Spain with LIDAR exclusively one index, height profile. current system uses combination two mentioned indexes. experiment at growth stage 12–14, 16 different locations selected represent widest possible density...
3D crop reconstruction with a high temporal resolution and by the use of non-destructive measuring technologies can support automation plant phenotyping processes. Thereby, availability such data give valuable information about development interaction genotype environment. This article presents new methodology for georeferenced maize structure. For this purpose total station, an IMU, several 2D LiDARs different orientations were mounted on autonomous vehicle. By multistep presented, based...
Crop 3D modeling allows site-specific management at different crop stages. In recent years, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors have been widely used for gathering information about plant architecture to extract biophysical parameters decision-making programs. The study reconstructed vineyard crops using technology. Its accuracy performance were assessed characterization distance measurements, aiming obtain a reconstruction. A LiDAR sensor was installed on-board mobile platform...
To meet the increased demand for organic vegetables and improve their product quality, Sureveg CORE Organic Cofund ERA-Net project focuses on benefits best practices of growing different crops in alternate rows. A prototype a robotic platform was developed to address specific needs this field type at an individual plant level rather than per strip or section. This work describes novel method develop fertilization tasks crop rows, based automatic vegetable Detection Characterization (D.a.C)...
Time-resolved reflectance has been used for the nondestructive measurement of optical properties in apples. The technique is based on detection temporal dispersion a short laser pulse injected into probed medium. time distribution re-emitted photons interpreted with solution diffusion equation yields mean values absorption and reduced scattering coefficients proposed proved useful spectra different varieties apples, revealing spectral shape chlorophyll. No major variations were observed...
A crop monitoring system was developed for the supervision of organic fertilization status on tomato plants at early stages. An automatic and nondestructive approach used to analyze with different levels water-soluble fertilizer (3 + 5 NK) vermicompost. The evaluation composed by a multispectral camera five lenses: green (550 nm), red (660 edge (735 near infrared (790 RGB, computational image processing system. applied weekly in four treatments: (T0: 0 mL, T1: 6.25 T2: 12.5 mL T3: 25 mL)...
Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been used to non-destructively and rapidly evaluate the quality of fresh agricultural produce. In this study, two commercially available portable spectrometers (F-750: Felix Instruments, WA, USA; SCiO: Consumer Physics, Tel Aviv, Israel) were evaluated in wavelength range between 740 1070 nm non-invasively predict attributes, including dry matter (DM), total soluble solids (TSS) content three table grape cultivars (‘Autumn Royal’, ‘Timpson’, ‘Sweet...
New super-high-density (SHD) olive orchards designed for mechanical harvesting using over-the-row harvesters are becoming increasingly common around the world. Some studies regarding SHD have focused on effective removal of fruits; however, energy applied to canopy by machine that can result in fruit damage, structural damage or extra stress trees has been little studied. Using conventional analyses, this study investigates effects different nominal speeds and beating frequencies efficiency...
Precision agriculture is a concept that encompasses various technologies aimed at optimizing the management of agricultural activities. The main aim this investigation to evaluate environmental and economic performance precision practices on production stone fruit crop (nectarine) using life cycle approach consider cradle-to-farm gate scope. results have been compared against traditional uniform application (UA). analysis considers five impact categories, including climate change,...
Active optical sensing (LIDAR and light curtain transmission) devices mounted on a mobile platform can correctly detect, localize, classify trees. To conduct an evaluation comparison of the different sensors, encoder wheel was used for vehicle odometry provided measurement linear displacement prototype along row tree seedlings as reference each recorded sensor measurement. The field trials were conducted in juvenile nursery with one-year-old grafted almond trees at Sierra Gold Nurseries,...
This paper set out to explore the precision agriculture (PA)-training needs of students studying in agricultural universities Euro-Mediterranean region (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain). SPARKLE is a Knowledge Alliance Project, funded by European Union (EU), one its main goals narrow innovation divide between entrepreneurship effective application sustainable PA. During project, research conducted all countries revealed differences PA-training university students. Additionally, this...
Time-domain diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (TRS), a medical sensing technique, was used to evaluate internalkiwi fruit quality. The application of this pulsed laser spectroscopic technique studied as new, possible non-destructive,method detect optically different quality parameters: firmness, sugar content, and acidity. main difference with otherspectroscopic techniques is that TRS estimates separately at the same time absorbed light scattering inside thesample, each wavelength, allowing...