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Zhongyu Yang, Zirui Yu, Xiaoyun Wang, Wugeng Yan, Shijie Sun, Meichen Feng, Jingjing Sun, Pengyan Su, Xinkai Sun, Zhigang Wang, Chenbo Yang, Chao Wang, Yu Zhao, Lujie Xiao, Xiaoyan Song, Meijun Zhang and Wude Yang
Aboveground biomass (AGB) is a key parameter reflecting crop growth which plays a vital role in agricultural management and ecosystem assessment. Real-time and non-destructive biomass monitoring is essential for accurate field management and crop yield p...
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Yujin Hwang, Seunghyeon Lee, Taejoo Kim, Kyeonghoon Baik and Yukyung Choi
Vertical farms are to be considered the future of agriculture given that they not only use space and resources efficiently but can also consistently produce large yields. Recently, artificial intelligence has been introduced for use in vertical farms to ...
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Yali Zhang, Junqi Xiao, Kangting Yan, Xiaoyang Lu, Wanjian Li, Haoxin Tian, Linlin Wang, Jizhong Deng and Yubin Lan
Crop nutrient biochemical information (mainly including chlorophyll class and nutrient elements mainly nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) is an important basis for revealing crop growth and development patterns and their relationship with the environmen...
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Yaoyu Li, Tengteng Qu, Yuzhi Wang, Qixin Zhao, Shujie Jia, Zhe Yin, Zhaodong Guo, Guofang Wang, Fuzhong Li and Wuping Zhang
Soil moisture critically influences crop growth, especially in dryland environments. Precise agricultural management requires real-time monitoring of stratified soil moisture and assessment of crops? daily water needs. We aim to provide low-cost, high-th...
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Taketo Eguchi and Masahiro Tasumi
This study investigated two popular satellite-derived vegetation indices (VIs), MODIS NDVI and EVI, as tools for monitoring crop growth at the Thapanzeik Dam irrigation district in Myanmar, where quality ground data are difficult to obtain. The time-seri...
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Jianyong Zhang, Yanling Zhao, Zhenqi Hu and Wu Xiao
Rapid estimation of above-ground biomass (AGB) with high accuracy is essential for monitoring crop growth status and predicting crop yield. Recently, remote sensing techniques using unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have exhibited great potential in obtaini...
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Zhifang Pei and Bin Wu
With the intensification of global warming, food production will face serious drought risk. In view of the insufficient applicability of the existing crop drought index, a standardized crop water deficit index (SCWDI) was constructed based on the constru...
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Xin Zhao, Zeyi Zhao, Fengnian Zhao, Jiangfan Liu, Zhaoyang Li, Xingpeng Wang and Yang Gao
Accurate nitrogen fertilizer management determines the yield and quality of fruit trees, but there is a lack of multispectral UAV-based nitrogen fertilizer monitoring technology for orchards. Therefore, in this study, a field experiment was conducted by ...
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Na Xu, Lin Meng, Fang Tang, Shasha Du, Yanli Xu, Shuai Kuang, Yuanda Lv, Wenjing Song, Yang Li, Weicong Qi and Yu Zhang
Plant spacing usually refers to distances between plants within and between rows in the field. Different spacing in crop planting would generally influence the size, plant architecture, economic productivity, etc. The present research provided a time cou...
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Sadia Alam Shammi, Yanbo Huang, Gary Feng, Haile Tewolde, Xin Zhang, Johnie Jenkins and Mark Shankle
The application of remote sensing, which is non-destructive and cost-efficient, has been widely used in crop monitoring and management. This study used a built-in multispectral imager on a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to capture multispectral imag...
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Yan Li, Wen Yan, Sai An, Wanlin Gao, Jingdun Jia, Sha Tao and Wei Wang
Accurate and continuous monitoring of crop growth is vital for the development of precision agriculture. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and satellite platforms have considerable complementarity in high spatial resolution (centimeter-scale) and fixed revis...
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Athakorn Promwee, Sukimplee Nijibulat and Hien Huu Nguyen
The rising adoption of agricultural technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) or ?smart farming? aims to boost crop production in terms of both quantity and quality. This study compares the benefits of a smart farm employing an IoT-based hydropon...
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Dmitry N. Ignatenko, Alexey V. Shkirin, Yakov P. Lobachevsky and Sergey V. Gudkov
The review contains a systematization of the main approaches to the practical implementation of Mueller matrix polarimetry and the prospects for its application in biology and agriculture. The most typical optical layouts for measuring the Mueller matrix...
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Ovidiu Csillik, John Cherbini, Robert Johnson, Andy Lyons and Maggi Kelly
Remote sensing is important to precision agriculture and the spatial resolution provided by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is revolutionizing precision agriculture workflows for measurement crop condition and yields over the growing season, for identify...
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Hongyu Wang, Yiren Ding, Qiushuang Yao, Lulu Ma, Yiru Ma, Mi Yang, Shizhe Qin, Feng Xu, Ze Zhang and Zhe Gao
Cotton yield estimation is of great practical significance to producers, allowing them to make rational management decisions. At present, crop yield estimation methods mainly comprise traditional agricultural yield estimation methods, which have many sho...
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Jaroslav Korba, Petr ?arec, Václav Novák, Pavel Bro?, Antonín Dolan and Martin Dedina
Digestate is commonly used as a liquid organic fertilizer, as it contains nutrients that are important for plant growth and thus help reduce usage of mineral fertilizers. Since the digestate application leads to the release of greenhouse gases (GHGs) int...
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Yanfang Zhou, Chunmeng Huang, Yi Chen, Lanzhi Han, Jiajian Xie and Xiuping Chen
Fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, invaded the south of China in December 2018 and has since posed a huge threat to crop production in China. However, transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn can efficiently control the damage caused by FAWs....
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Sang-Mo Kang, Md. Injamum Ul Hoque, Ji-In Woo and In-Jung Lee
Soybean is an important oil crop with multiple uses. Soybeans can grow in various soil types and climates; however, salt stress reduces their yield. Plant growth-promoting microorganisms are an environmentally benign way to combat stress and boost plant ...
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Hao Guo, Yong Li, Xu Wang, Hongyan Ruan, Toyin Peter Abegunrin, Lanchao Wei, Zhigang Huang, Kayode Steven Are and Gabriel Oladele Awe
Excessive fertilizer application, majorly nitrogen- and phosphorus-based fertilizers, in farmland has intensified environmental pollution of rivers, lakes, and other surface water bodies worldwide by agricultural non-point sources, especially the highly-...
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Evangelia Tsoumalakou, Eleni Mente, Konstantinos A. Kormas, Nikolaos Katsoulas, Nikolaos Vlahos, Panagiotis Kapsis and Efi Levizou
In aquaponics, a closed-loop system which combines fish and crop production, essential nutrients for plant growth are often at sub-optimal concentrations. The aim of the present study was to identify system limitations and thoroughly examine the integrat...
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