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AgriEngineering, Volume 5, Issue 3

September 2023 - 31 articles

Cover Story: Plastic contamination in U.S. cotton bales, mainly from John Deere round module harvester wraps, jeopardizes the cotton sector. Current manual cleaning methods fail to fully remove these contaminants. To address this, we introduced a machine-vision system that uses color cameras to identify and remove plastic during cotton processing. Built on affordable ARM computers with Linux, the system comprises 30–50 units, but calibration is labor-intensive and challenging for typical gin workers. Our research offers an auto-calibration algorithm, designed to automatically track cotton color and utilize frequency statistics, sidestepping plastic images that might hinder performance. This auto-calibration significantly reduces setup effort, turning the system into a near plug-and-play device. It diminishes reliance on expert staff, promoting faster industry-wide adoption. View this paper
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Articles (31)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,515 Views
14 Pages

Utilization of Vermicompost Sludge Instead of Peat in Olive Tree Nurseries in the Frame of Circular Economy and Sustainable Development

  • Vasiliki Kinigopoulou,
  • Evangelos Hatzigiannakis,
  • Stefanos Stefanou,
  • Athanasios Guitonas and
  • Efstathios K. Oikonomou

19 September 2023

The survival of newly planted seedlings and their successful development after transplantation, including faster plant growth, improved plant quality, larger production, and the absence of dependence on arable land, is one of the primary goals of hor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,341 Views
16 Pages

Non-Destructive Methods Used to Determine Forage Mass and Nutritional Condition in Tropical Pastures

  • Patrick Bezerra Fernandes,
  • Camila Alves dos Santos,
  • Antonio Leandro Chaves Gurgel,
  • Lucas Ferreira Gonçalves,
  • Natália Nogueira Fonseca,
  • Rafaela Borges Moura,
  • Kátia Aparecida de Pinho Costa and
  • Tiago do Prado Paim

15 September 2023

The quantification of forage availability in tropical grasses is generally done in a destructive and time-consuming manner, involving cutting, weighing, and waiting for drying. To expedite this process, non-destructive methods can be used, such as un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,851 Views
15 Pages

Restoration Techniques Applied in Open Mining Area to Improve Agricultural Soil Fertility

  • María Ángeles Peñaranda Barba,
  • Virginia Alarcón Martínez,
  • Ignacio Gómez Lucas and
  • Jose Navarro-Pedreño

13 September 2023

Open pit mining causes damage in natural and rural regions; that is why soil restoration is necessary in order to recovery soil–plant systems. The application of waste can be a good solution for rehabilitation, and it clearly complies with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,192 Views
18 Pages

VNIR-SWIR Spectroscopy, XRD and Traditional Analyses for Pedomorphogeological Assessment in a Tropical Toposequence

  • Jean J. Novais,
  • Raúl R. Poppiel,
  • Marilusa P. C. Lacerda and
  • José A. M. Demattê

13 September 2023

Tropical climate conditions favor landscape evolution and the formation of highly weathered soils under different pedogenic processes due to certain differential properties. Traditional analysis coupled with VNIR-SWIR reflectance spectroscopy and X-r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,157 Views
13 Pages

12 September 2023

Accurately identifying the boundaries of agricultural land is critical to the effective management of its resources. This includes the determination of property and land rights, the prevention of non-agricultural activities on agricultural land, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,143 Views
13 Pages

Assessing Microplastic-Induced Changes in Sandy Soil Properties and Crop Growth

  • Karina Lincmaierová,
  • Lenka Botyanszká,
  • Lubomír Lichner,
  • Lucia Toková,
  • Ioannis Zafeiriou,
  • Dmitrij Bondarev,
  • Ján Horák and
  • Peter Šurda

7 September 2023

An ever-increasing amount of microplastics enters the environment and affects soil properties and plant growth. Investigating how the interactions between microplastics and soil properties vary across different soil types is crucial. In sandy soil, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,726 Views
11 Pages

Potential Use of Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria in Soybean Culture

  • Gabriel Rieth Silvestrini,
  • Elton José da Rosa,
  • Henrique Cunha Corrêa,
  • Taísa Dal Magro,
  • Wendel Paulo Silvestre,
  • Gabriel Fernandes Pauletti and
  • Elaine Damiani Conte

6 September 2023

Using microorganisms to enhance crop productivity is an active and increasing field of research, which encompasses the productive, environmental, and economic aspects of agricultural production to obtain high-quality crops with a reduction in the nee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,474 Views
14 Pages

Detecting objects in digital images is challenging in computer vision, traditionally requiring manual threshold selection. However, object detection has improved significantly with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and other advanced algorithms,...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,136 Views
32 Pages

The gin stand power is measurable using common tools; however, such tools typically do not detect active ginning. Detecting active ginning is important when trying to separate out the energy going to the moving parts of the gin stand (i.e., the basel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,939 Views
17 Pages

Delineating Management Zones with Different Yield Potentials in Soybean–Corn and Soybean–Cotton Production Systems

  • Eduardo Antonio Speranza,
  • João de Mendonça Naime,
  • Carlos Manoel Pedro Vaz,
  • Júlio Cezar Franchini dos Santos,
  • Ricardo Yassushi Inamasu,
  • Ivani de Oliveira Negrão Lopes,
  • Leonardo Ribeiro Queirós,
  • Ladislau Marcelino Rabelo,
  • Lucio André de Castro Jorge and
  • Sergio das Chagas
  • + 2 authors

The delineation of management zones is one of the ways to enable the spatially differentiated management of plots using precision agriculture tools. Over the years, the spatial variability of data collected from soil and plant sampling started to be...

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AgriEngineering - ISSN 2624-7402