2025 March - 42 articles
Hyperspectral plant phenotyping is a method that has a wide range of applications in various fields, including agriculture, forestry, food processing, medicine and plant breeding. It can be used to obtain a large amount of spectral and spatial inform...
Agriculture, an essential driver of economic expansion, is faced by the issue of sustaining an increasing global population in the context of climatic uncertainty and limited resources. As a result, “Smart Farming”, which uses cutting-edg...
In spaced crop systems, understanding the interactions between different types of vegetation in the agroecosystem and solar radiation is essential for understanding surface radiation dynamics. This study aimed to both seasonally and spatially quantif...
Accidents and deaths at work are a persistent problem, with numbers still worrying. The agricultural and forestry sector is among the most exposed to work risks, with particular attention to noise risk from the use of agricultural machinery and opera...
The poultry industry faces significant challenges in efficiently monitoring large populations, especially under resource constraints and limited connectivity. This paper introduces the Automated Counting and Monitoring System for Poultry Tracking (AC...
The increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration due to anthropogenic activities has led to the development of low-cost, portable, and user-friendly sensing technologies. Non-Dispersive Infrared (NDIR) sensors offer reliable CO2 detection with high sensi...
Surface runoff poses a significant threat to crop production and the environment. However, most studies on soil properties have not quantified soil nutrient loss as a consequence of soil erosion. This study measures the magnitude of nutrient loss thr...
The powdered products industry demands certain parameters for the transport of these products, such as flowability. This has a direct impact on actions within the industry and in machinery development. For Coffea canephora, this information is absent...
Smart greenhouses offer crucial solutions for reducing our atmospheric impact and resource waste. However, two fundamental challenges persist in their implementation, massive energy consumption and a high level of human intervention, particularly for...
Typically, developing new digital agriculture technologies requires substantial on-site resources and data. However, the crop’s growth cycle provides only limited time windows for experiments and equipment validation. This study presents a phot...
Ready-to-drink herbal teas are increasingly popular due to their pleasant aroma and taste, with plants cultivated organically showing improved quality properties. Vis/NIR absorbance and multivariate analysis were used for classifying infused herbal t...
Citriculture has worldwide importance, and monitoring the nutritional status of plants through leaf analysis is essential. Recently, proximal sensing has supported this process, although there is a lack of studies conducted specifically for citrus. T...
This review aims to study the applications of sensors for monitoring and controlling the physicochemical parameters of water in aquaculture systems such as Biofloc Technology (BFT), Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RASs), and aquaponic systems usin...
The poultry industry plays a pivotal role in global agriculture, with poultry serving as a major source of protein and contributing significantly to economic growth. However, the sector faces challenges associated with labor-intensive tasks that are...
Achieving global sustainable agriculture requires farmers worldwide to adopt smart agricultural technologies, such as autonomous ground robots. However, most ground robots are either task- or crop-specific and expensive for small-scale farmers and sm...
Enhancing agricultural machinery field efficiency offers substantial benefits for farm management by optimizing the available resources, thereby reducing cost, maximizing productivity, and supporting sustainability. Field efficiency is influenced by...
This study evaluated housing designs and bedding systems to improve air quality in swine facilities, focusing on odor and particulate matter (PM) reduction. Three experimental animal house designs (M1, M2, M3) were tested: M1 used circulating airflow...
The use of non-invasive methods can contribute to the development of predictive models for measuring carcass yield (CY) and hot carcass weight (HCW) in domestic ruminants. In this study, in vivo measurements of subcutaneous fat thickness (SFT) and ri...
This paper presents whole-body vibration prediction in an agricultural tractor based on selected operational parameters using machine learning. Experiments were performed using a Landini Powerfarm 100 model tractor on farmlands and service roads loca...
Smart agricultural machinery is built upon traditional agricultural equipment, further integrating modern information technologies to achieve automation, precision, and intelligence in agricultural production. Currently, significant progress has been...
Effective water and soil management is crucial for crop productivity, particularly in rice cultivation, where poor soil quality and water scarcity pose challenges. The response of deeper-rooted rice grown in soils amended with different soil amendmen...
Remote sensing is essential in precision agriculture as this approach provides high-resolution information on the soil’s physical and chemical parameters for detailed decision making. Globally, technologies such as remote sensing and machine le...
Stable pear cultivation relies on cross-pollination, which typically depends on insects or wind. However, natural pollination is often inconsistent due to environmental factors such as temperature and humidity. To ensure reliable fruit set, artificia...
Soybeans are key in generating foreign currency for the world economy. Geotechnologies, through vegetation indices (VIs) generated by orbital images or remotely piloted aircraft, are essential tools for assessing the impact of climate on productivity...
In agricultural planting, early plant classification is an indicator of crop health and growth. In order to accurately classify early plants, this paper proposes a classification method combining a dual attention mechanism and multi-scale module. Fir...
The mapping and monitoring of rice fields on a large scale using medium and high spatial resolution data (<10 m) is essential for efficient agricultural management and food security. However, challenges such as managing large volumes of data, addr...
The application of machine learning techniques to determine bioparameters, such as the leaf area index (LAI) and chlorophyll content, has shown significant potential, particularly with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This study evaluated...
In recent years, the agriculture sector has undergone a significant digital transformation, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to harness and analyze the growing volume of data from diverse sources. Machine learning (ML), a powerfu...
Resolving the genetic relationships between cultivars is one of the objectives of research in viticulture. To this end, both DNA markers and morphological analysis help to identify synonyms and homonyms and to determine the degree of relatedness betw...
The sugarcane cultivation has used heavy machinery on a large scale, which causes soil compaction. The minimum tillage has been used to reduce the traffic of machines on the crop, but there is a lack of appropriate tools for the implementation of thi...
Path exits for transhumant livestock are a major problem in many Sub-Saharan African countries. These problems contribute to many community conflicts. Several solutions are currently being studied, including dialogues between stakeholders. In this pa...
Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) was dried using a tray dryer, recirculating tray dryer, and vacuum dryer at 35 °C, 40 °C, and 45 °C, respectively. The dried thyme after attaining 5% moisture content was subjected to a grinding process to obtain p...
Soil color serves as a critical indicator of its properties and conditions. It is shaped by a complex interplay of mineral and organic matter content, moisture levels, and other environmental variables. Additionally, human activities such as land-use...
This paper presents the validation of a digital image analysis method for the quantitative determination of physical quality parameters of apples by comparative analysis with a traditional measurement method. The method was used to determine the qual...
This paper presents research on the impact of vibrations on the hand–arm and body system of agricultural tractor operators as ergonomic indicators in relation to certain operational parameters. The measurements were conducted on a LANDINI POWER...
Early diagnosis of subclinical ketosis is fundamental in the production management of dairy cattle. Without evident clinical signs, this pathological condition causes important economic losses for the farmer and significant health repercussions for t...
The present work unveils the role of small farming plots (less than 5 ha) in the context of food security. It determines their contribution by estimating the spatial distribution (location), the crop types (diversity), the crop area extent (acreage),...
This paper concerns the methods and algorithms developed for tracking changes in the internal characteristics of eggs during storage that emphasize rapid and simple classification and satisfactory regression accuracy, considering technological requir...
Olive cultivation is still concentrated within the Mediterranean basin, although the last thirty years have seen an expansion into geographical areas outside it. Traditional olive groves, with large planting distances and centuries-old trees, still p...
The present study seeks to improve the accuracy and reliability of disease identification in apple fruits and leaves through the use of state-of-the-art deep learning techniques. The research investigates several state-of-the-art architectures, such...
Measuring surface soil moisture is vital for understanding water availability, agricultural productivity, and climate change impacts, as well as for drought prediction and water resource management. However, obtaining accurate data is challenging due...
Systemic fluorescence tracers introduced into crop plants provide an active signal for crop–weed differentiation that can be exploited for precision weed management. Rhodamine B (RB), a widely used tracer for seeds and seedlings, possesses desi...
