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Engineering Proceedings, Volume 9, Issue 1

EFITA 2021 2021 - 46 articles

The 13th EFITA International Conference

Online | 25–26 May 2021

Volume Editors:
Dionysis Bochtis, Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (IBO), Greece
Maria Lampridi, Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (IBO), Greece
Charisios Achillas, International Hellenic University, Greece
Dimitrios Aidonis, International Hellenic University, Greece
Dimitrios Kateris, Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (IBO), Greece
Aristotelis Christos Tagarakis, Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (IBO), Greece
Ilias Platis, University of Thessaly, Greece
Lefteris Benos, Institute for Bio-Economy and Agri-Technology (IBO), Greece

Cover Story: These proceedings represent the scientific outcomes of the 13th EFITA International Conference held on May 2021, organized by the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (EFITA), which has presented and disseminated cutting-edge advances in ICT systems in agriculture for more than 20 years. The contents of the proceedings bring together the efforts of engineers, scientists, technicians, academics, and representatives from industry by exchanging knowledge and ideas, presenting innovations, and by discussing the state of the art and future use of ICT in the agri-food and bio-resources production sectors, under the theme of “Digital Agriculture”.
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Articles (46)

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,820 Views
5 Pages

28 December 2021

The effects of two irrigation (IR1: rainfed; IR2: rainfed + supplemental drip irrigation), and two fertilization (Ft1, Ft2) treatments were studied on cotton yield and seed oil by applying a number of new agro-technologies such as: TDR sensors; soil...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,724 Views
4 Pages

Strategic Research Agenda for Utilisation of Earth Observation in Agriculture

  • Karel Charvat,
  • Vaclav Safar,
  • Hana Kubickova,
  • Sarka Horakova and
  • Tomas Mildorf

14 December 2021

The EO4Agri Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) is a set of recommendations for future research activities in the area of Earth observation for agriculture. The EO4AGRI project provides support to all agri-food sectors based on new uses of COPERNICUS dat...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,588 Views
4 Pages

13 December 2021

The paper creates the chaotic soybeans production growth model. This model includes in-vestment in ICTs in agriculture. Further, the paper discovers a sequence of Elliot waves in soyabeans market in China in the period 1991–2015. Investment in...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,720 Views
4 Pages

Susceptibility of Twenty-Three Kiwifruit Cultivars to Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae

  • Thomas Thomidis,
  • Dimitrios E. Goumas,
  • Anastasios Zotos,
  • Vassilios Triantafyllidis and
  • Efthimios Kokotos

One of the best methods to control plant disease is the use of resistant cultivars. The purpose of this study is to evaluate 23 kiwifruit genotypes and cultivars for susceptibility to four strains of Psa (biovar 3) in alaboratory setting. The results...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,031 Views
4 Pages

Production of Fertilizer from Seawater with a Remote Control System

  • Federico Hahn,
  • Carlos Juárez González and
  • Canek Mota Delfín

Seawater is abundant and full of nutrients known as ORMUS. Inorganic fertilizers have become scarce and expensive, so alternatives to feed plants are being studied. An automatic tank on a fishing boat was designed to extract salts from seawater, as f...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,862 Views
4 Pages

A Survey on the Use of the Internet of Multimedia Things for Precision Agriculture and the Agrifood Sector

  • Alvertos Ioannis Mourikis,
  • Romanos Kalamatianos,
  • Ioannis Karydis and
  • Markos Avlonitis

The Internet of Things (IoT) has already penetrated an ever-increasing array of daily aspects of life. IoTs bridge the analog and digital worlds in an unprecedented manner and degree by providing in situ sensing. Adding to the IoT the capability to c...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,693 Views
5 Pages

Mango is one of the main fruits grown in Mexico that are exported worldwide, but the trees consume a lot of water, and irrigation scheduling should be implemented to optimize water use. Dendrometers were installed in fruit trees to optimize water usa...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,366 Views
4 Pages

The Common Greenhouse Ontology: An Ontology Describing Components, Properties, and Measurements inside the Greenhouse

  • Roos Bakker,
  • Romy van Drie,
  • Cornelis Bouter,
  • Sander van Leeuwen,
  • Lorijn van Rooijen and
  • Jan Top

Modern greenhouses have systems that continuously measure the properties of greenhouses and their crops. These measurements cannot be queried together without linking the relevant data. In this paper, we introduce the Common Greenhouse Ontology, a st...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,364 Views
4 Pages

Weed Mapping in Vineyards Using RGB-D Perception

  • Dimitrios Kateris,
  • Damianos Kalaitzidis,
  • Vasileios Moysiadis,
  • Aristotelis C. Tagarakis and
  • Dionysis Bochtis

Weed management is one of the major challenges in viticulture, as long as weeds can cause significant yield losses and severe competition to the cultivations. In this direction, the development of an automated procedure for weed monitoring will provi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,311 Views
4 Pages

This paper explores the use of several state-of-the-art machine learning models for predicting the daily prices of corn and sugar in Brazil in relation to the use of traditional econometrics models. The following models were implemented and compared:...

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