Smart Sensing Systems and AI for Precision Agriculture in Climate Changes Era

Webinar: Smart Sensing Systems and AI for Precision Agriculture in Climate Changes Era

Hosted by the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society in partnership with the IEEE Public Visibility Committee

26 July 2023 at 9:00 AM EDT

Abstract

Precision agriculture (PA) combines technologies and practices that assure the optimization of the operations associated with agricultural production through specific farm management.

Regarding the employed technologies distributed smart sensing systems characterized by fixed and mobile nodes (based on remote sensing and Unnamed Aerial Vehicle (UAV)) are used to turn the farming operations into data, and to optimize the future operation based on data-driven models. Edge and cloud computing platforms that are capable to run AI/ML algorithms may contribute to help on human decisions. This new mode to act in agriculture based on digital transformation through the combination of technologies such as smart sensors, cloud, and mobile computing, data science is related to the fact that classical decisions cannot be applied nowadays when the cultivated areas are much extended, and the adverse meteorological events are occurring frequently that conduct to miss-management with yield losses.

In this talk, we’ll see together the meaning of precision agriculture in the context of the heavy uncertainty associated with climate change. The IoT ecosystem technologies for precision agriculture will be discussed including multimodal sensing and artificial intelligence. Referring to sensing in-situ and remote sensing are considered special attention being granted to the soil characteristics (moisture and macronutrient concentration). The agriculture UAV imagery and satellite imagery solutions as so as the relation between the data coming from the smart sensors distributed in the field and acquired images using multispectral imagery techniques will be part of the presentation. Metrological characteristics of smart sensors as so as the test and calibration procedure for in-situ and remote measurement smart sensing systems will also be a part of the talk.

Another important technology associated with innovative precision agriculture is related to the development of AI data-driven models for farming operations considering data coming from different sources. Examples of data-driven models for smart irrigation and nutrient delivery will be considered and increased crop quality will be discussed.

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Speaker Bio

Dr. Octavian Adrian Postolache is an electrical engineer and Associate Professor with habilitation at ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa and a Senior researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Lisbon, Portugal. His fields of interest are smart sensors, WSN, IoT for precision agriculture, artificial intelligence for automated measurement systems, and intelligent transportation. Dr. Postolache is the author and co-author of 10 patents, 12 books, 21 book chapters, and more than 400 papers in international journals and indexed conferences with peer review. He developed important research work in the field of environment monitoring and he participate as a PI or member in national and international Agriculture 4.0 projects such as AGROECOINN and SmartFarm 4.0 Colab. He is an IEEE Senior Member, chair of IEEE IMS TC-13, and current chair of the IEEE IMS Portugal Chapter. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement, and IoT from Elsevier. He received IEEE outstanding reviewer and the outstanding associate editor from IEEE Transactions in Instrumentation and Measurement and IEEE Sensors Journal and other awards related to his research activity at different international forums. He served as a project evaluator for different scientific funding agencies.