Technology & Data Collection 2020 - Precision Agriculture, Data Management & Decision Support Systems - ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Technology & Data Collection" book has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This is a new thematic database of chapters bringing you comprehensive reviews of the latest research in crop science as 'bite-sized' pieces of content and will enable you to efficiently access what's really going on in your specialist subject. This collection includes 67 chapters that covers advances in precision agriculture, data management and its application in modelling and decision support systems. It covers areas such as sensor technology, robotics and automation as well as data management.

Some of the chapters included in this collection are;

• Harvesting citrus: challenges and perspectives in an automated world
• Advances and improvements in modeling plant processes
• Agroecosystem models for delivering ecosystem services
• Crop simulation model inter-comparison and improvement
• Data for developing, testing, and applying crop and farm models
• Dealing with uncertainty in crop models
• Modeling crop rotations: capturing short- and long-term feedbacks for sustainability and soil health
• Whole-farm system models in practice: diverse applications
• Robot-enhanced insect pest control: reality or fantasy?
• Automation and robotics in greenhouses
• Precision weed management systems
• Proximal crop sensing
• Proximal soil surveying and monitoring techniques
• Site-specific irrigation systems
• Site-specific nutrient management systems

Key Topics Covered:

• Harvesting citrus: challenges and perspectives in an automated world
• Advances and improvements in modeling plant processes
• Agroecosystem models for delivering ecosystem services
• Crop simulation model inter-comparison and improvement
• Data for developing, testing, and applying crop and farm models
• Dealing with uncertainty in crop models
• Developing climate-based decision support systems from agricultural systems models
• DSSAT crop modeling ecosystem
• Functional-structural plant modeling of plants and crops
• future of crop modeling for sustainable agriculture
• Improving crop pest/disease modeling
• Improving modeling of nutrient cycles in crop cultivation
• Improving modelling of water cycles in crop cultivation
• Integrating economic simulation models with whole-farm system models for ex-ante technology impact assessment
• Integrating livestock production into whole-farm system models of mixed crop-livestock systems
• Landscape models to support sustainable intensification of agroecological systems
• Modeling crop rotations: capturing short- and long-term feedbacks for sustainability and soil health
• Whole-farm system models in practice: diverse applications
• Robot-enhanced insect pest control: reality or fantasy?
• Automation and robotics in greenhouses
• Models, sensors and decision support systems in greenhouse cultivation
• Advances in actuation and control in agricultural robots
• Advances in automated in-field grading of harvested crops
• Advances in automating meat processing operations
• Advances in communication systems in agricultural robots
• Global positioning systems (GPS) for agriculture: an overview
• Human-robot collaboration in agricultural robots
• Optimizing fruit production efficiencies through mechanization
• overview of machine vision technologies for agricultural robots and automation
• Use of agricultural robots in crop spraying/fertilizer applications
• Use of agricultural robots in orchard management
• Use of agricultural robots in weed management and control
• Use of intelligent/autonomous systems in crop irrigation
• Advances in robotic milking
• Advances in using robots in forestry operations
• Modelling agroforestry systems
• Airborne and satellite remote sensors for precision agriculture
• Controlled traffic farming in precision agriculture
• Intelligent machinery for precision agriculture
• Key challenges and methods in identifying management zones
• Modelling and decision support systems in precision agriculture
• Precision crop protection systems
• Precision livestock farming and pasture management systems
• Precision tillage systems
• Precision weed management systems
• Proximal crop sensing
• Proximal soil surveying and monitoring techniques
• Site-specific irrigation systems
• Site-specific nutrient management systems
• Spray technologies in precision agriculture
• The economics of precision agriculture
• use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in precision agriculture
• Variable-rate application technologies in precision agriculture
• Variable-rate seeding systems for precision agriculture
• Modelling potato growth
• Advances in remote sensing for monitoring grassland and forage production
• Modelling the effects of temperature and photoperiod on soybean reproductive development
• Modelling crop growth and yield in palm oil cultivation
• Crop modelling to support sustainable sugarcane cultivation
• Precision agriculture and sugarcane production - a case study from the Burdekin region of Australia
• Modelling crop growth and grain yield in maize cultivation
• Precision maize cultivation techniques
• Value chain approaches to mechanization in cassava cultivation and harvesting in Africa
• Wheat crop modelling to improve yields
• Yield gap analysis towards meeting future rice demand
• Mechanization and automation for apple
• Modelling crop growth and yield in tomato cultivation

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