Agriculture

Prof. Dr. Francesco Marinello

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Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
Interests: precision agriculture; agricultural mechanization; sensors; automation
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Prof. Dr. Juan Arribas

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Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Valladolid, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
Interests: machine learning; computer vision; expert systems and their applications; hyperspectral imaging; bioinformatics; food science
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Dr. Emanuele Barca

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Water Research Institute, Department of Earth System Sciences and Technologies for the Environment, National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy
Interests: machine learning; spatial statistics; geostatistics; R programming; statistical/mathematical modelling
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Dr. Young Ki Chang

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Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57006, USA
Interests: precision agriculture automation; cost-effective camera/sensor system development; biosystems automation & robotics (drone & unmanned ground vehicles); spot-application of agrochemicals using image processing and deep learning; information and communication technology (ICT) for agricultural big data processing; edge/cloud computing connectivity and cyber security; animal behavior analysis using image/IoT devices
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Prof. Dr. Quan-Sheng Chen

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School of Food & Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Xuefu Road 301, Room-205, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: fast & nondestructive sensing food quality and safety; near infrared spectral /Raman spectral analysis; real-time monitoring food processing; bio-imaging technique for sensing food safety; nanosensors for sensing food safety

Dr. Yongsheng Chen

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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 200 Bobby Dodd Way, Atlanta, GA 30332-0373, USA
Interests: high-density algal cultivation; crop protection; membrane technology for water/wastewater treatment and water and nutrient recycling for algal biomass production; life cycle analysis (LCA) of biofuel production
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Dr. Ritaban Dutta

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CSIRO Data61, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
Interests: big data analytics; remote sensing; machine learning; precision agriculture; digital agronomy
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Prof. Dr. Belen Franch

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Global Change Unit, Image Processing Laboratory, Universitat de València, 46980 Valencia, Spain
Interests: agriculture monitoring; remote sensing; precision farming; agriculture market monitoring (global scale); crop production; yield forecasting

Prof. Dr. Jerry Gao

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Computer Engineering Department and Applied Data Analytics Department, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0180, USA
Interests: smart cities; AI and machine learning; big data analytics; software engineering and test automation; AI testing
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Gronauer

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Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, ree University of Bozen-Bolzano, 31900 Bolzano, Italy
Interests: agricultural engineering; smart farming technology; electrification in agriculture; renewable energy technologies; environmental engineering; waste treatment, life-cycle assessment

Dr. Michela Janni

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Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, National Research Council (IMEM-CNR), Parco Area Delle Scienze 37/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
Interests: precision agriculture; drought stress; phenotyping; sensors; abiotic stresses; wheat; tomato; transpiration; plant growth
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Dr. Signe Marie Jensen

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Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: biostatistics; data analysis; experimental design; digital agriculture; plant phenotyping

Prof. Dr. Xiuliang Jin

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Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
Interests: crop phenotyping; precision agricultue; remote sensing; crop yield; satellites; UAV; growth status monitring; crops; data assimilation
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Dr. Surya Kant

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1. Agriculture Victoria, Grains Innovation Park, 110 Natimuk Rd, Horsham, VIC 3400, Australia
2. School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia
Interests: plant phenomics; digital agriculture; crop physiology; breeding, genomics; precision agriculture; remote sensing
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Dr. Lav R. Khot

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Department of Biological Systems Engineering, CPAAS/IAREC, Washington State University, Prosser, WA, USA
Interests: remote sensing (unmanned and manned aerial systems); ground-based (proximal) crop sensing; decision support systems and information delivery technologies; precise applications of various production inputs; agricultural machinery and processes; data-based modeling
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Prof. Dr. Hyeon Tae Kim

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Department of Bio-Systems Engineering, Institute of Smart Farm, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 52828, Republic of Korea
Interests: agricultural environmental engineering; smart farming; machine learning; deep learning; animal welfare; pattern analysis; plant science; food testing; food security; sustainable production and energy use; big data
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Prof. Dr. Jiyu Li

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College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Interests: UAV; rotor airflow; drone; energy and payload; UAV architecture design; airflow sensor; droplet sensor; operation route planning; control system; artificial intelligence; operation effect; operation efficiency
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Prof. Dr. Wenjuan Li

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State Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Arid and Semi-Arid Arable Land in Northern China, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: quantitative remote sensing in agriculture; crop phenotyping; crop monitoring; farmland monitoring; soil salinity
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Prof. Dr. Huanjun Liu

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State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
Interests: remote sensing and smart agriculture; soil and farmland monitoring
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Prof. Dr. Zhe Liu

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College of Land Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Interests: digital farm; fine remote sensing of seed industry; agricultural geographic information technology; smart land; planting regionalization

Dr. Rui Costa Martins

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Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: intelligent biosensors and biophotonics; biosystems; artificial intelligence
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Prof. Dr. Raul Morais dos Santos

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Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: sensor interfaces; microelectronics; wireless sensor networks; IoT; precision viticulture; energy harvesting; proximal sensing
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Prof. Dr. Christian Nansen

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Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: optical sensing; cold plasma; pest management and lighting technologies; pesticide performance assessments
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Prof. Dr. Luís Manuel Navas Gracia

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Department of Agricultural and Forestry Engineering, University of Valladolid, 34004 Palencia, Spain
Interests: precision farming; processes automation; artificial intelligence; renewable energies; greenhouse technology; urban farming
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Dr. Suresh Neethirajan

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Department of Animal Science & Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture & Computer Science, Dalhousie University, 6050 University Ave, Halifax, NS B3H 1W5, Canada
Interests: digital agriculture; artificial intelligence; big data analytics; animal-computer interaction; sensors & bio-instrumentation
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Prof. Dr. Gniewko Niedbała

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Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 50, 60-627 Poznań, Poland
Interests: artificial neural networks; artificial intelligence; machine learning; yield modelling; predictions; forecasting; crop production; agritourism development
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Dr. Xanthoula Eirini Pantazi

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Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: crop health status; precision agriculture; remote sensing; data fusion; machine learning; hyperspectral sensors; sensor fusion; deep learning; hyperspectral imaging field spectroscopy; fluorescence kinetics
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Prof. Dr. Dimitrios S. Paraforos

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Institut für Technik – Department of Agricultural Engineering, Hochschule Geisenheim University, Von-Lade-Str. 1, D-65366 Geisenheim, Germany
Interests: agricultural machinery automation; ISOBUS technologies; unmanned ground and aerial vehicles; decentralized and resilient digital farming systems
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Dr. Hongbin Pu

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School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
Interests: rapid detection for food; SERS; hyperspectral imaging; terahertz spectroscopy and safety analysis of nanoparticles

Prof. Dr. Marcus Randall

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Bond Business School, Bond University, Queensland, Australia
Interests: digital agriculture; crop planning; optimisation climate change; computational science
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