Smart farms

Description

This collection reviews recent advances in processing and analysing data to provide actionable outcomes for farmers to be able to achieve a more sustainable agriculture and reduce the sector’s contribution to climate change.

Table of contents

Part 1 General

• 1.Trends in farm information management systems: Liisa Pesonen, Natural Resources Institute (LUKE), Finland;
• 2.The role of digital technologies in achieving sustainable agriculture: Thiago L. Romanelli, André F. Colaço and João P. S. Veiga, University of São Paulo, Brazil;
• 3.Key issues in incorporating proximal and remote sensor data into farm decision-making: Adélia M. O. Sousa, Universidade de Évora, MED, CHANGE, EarsLab, Portugal; José R. Marques da Silva, Universidade de Évora, MED, CHANGE, Agroinsider Lda, Portugal; João Serrano, Shakib Shahidian and Duarte Lobo da Silveira, Universidade de Évora, MED, CHANGE, Portugal; Manuela Simões, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Ana Cristina Gonçalves, Maria João P. Caldinhas and Vasco Fitas da Cruz, Universidade de Évora, MED, CHANGE, Portugal; Arilson J. de Oliveira Júnior and Silvia R. Lucas de Souza, São Paulo State University, Brazil; Diogo R. Coelho, Universidade de Évora, MED, Portugal; Patrícia Lourenço, Agroinsider Lda, Portugal; and Fátima F. Baptista, Universidade de Évora, MED, CHANGE, Portugal;
• 4.Agri Semantics: developments to improve data interoperability to support farm information management and decision support systems in agriculture: Saba Noor, Jade Bokma and Bart Pardon, Ghent University, Belgium; Gerdien van Schaik, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; and Miel Hostens, Cornell University, USA;
• 5.Using data mining techniques for decision support in agriculture: support vector machines: Wu Caicong, China Agricultural University, China;

Part 2 Case studies

• 6.Developing decision support systems for irrigation/water management on farms: Fedro S. Zazueta, University of Florida, USA;
• 7.Advances in crop disease forecasting models: Nathaniel Newlands, Summerland Research and Development Centre, Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada;
• 8.Smart farming in extensive livestock production: the Australian experience: David W. Lamb, Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre/ Precision Agriculture Research Group - University of New England/ Gulbali Research Institute - Charles Sturt University, Australia;