Publications related to Agricultural engineering

Multi-objective optimization of rainfed and irrigated agricultural areas considering production and environmental criteria: a case study of wheat production in Spain

Gonzalo Guillen Gosalbez, Pavel Vaskan

Meeting the growing food demand with minimum impact on the environment is a major challenge to face for ensuring a more sustainable food production. To tackle this problem, in this article we present a novel systematic method for agriculture planning that ...

Elsevier2017

Performance assessment of integrated sensor orientation with a low-cost GNSS receiver

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

Mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs whose weight does not exceed 5 kg) is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline inspections, or mapping of large areas with homogeneous surface structure, e.g. forest or agricult ...

Copernicus GmbH2017

A Practical Engineering Approach to Interpreting Measurement Data in Uncertain Contexts

Ian Smith, Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai

Measurement data interpretation has the potential to improve asset management through quantification of reserve capacity and execution of well-engineered interventions. Many recent proposals for data interpretation that include uncertainty are not appropri ...

ASCE2017

Applicability Of New Approaches Of Sensor Orientation To Micro Aerial Vehicles

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

This study highlights the benefits of precise aerial position and attitude control in the context of mapping with Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). Accurate mapping with MAVs is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline ins ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2016

Biodegradability of HCH in agricultural soils from Guadeloupe (French West Indies): identification of lin genes, involved in HCH degradation pathway

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro

Banana has been a main agricultural product in the French West Indies (Guadeloupe and Martinique) since the 1960s. This crop requires the intensive use of pesticides to prevent attacks by insect pests. Chlorinated pesticides, such as hexachlorocyclohexane ...

Springer Heidelberg2016

Pesticides use in gardening areas in Burkina Faso and evaluation of the resulting risk for the operator using the new AOEM proposed by EFSA guidelines

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann, Jean-Jacques Stéphane Nfon Dibie

Pesticides are widely used in gardening to maintain high yield, prevent diseases and control pests and rodents. Field surveys conducted in Burkina Faso have underlined the lack of knowledge regarding good agricultural practices and the use of unsuitable an ...

2016

Suppressed convective rainfall by agricultural expansion in southeastern Burkina Faso

Marc Parlange, Gabriel George Katul, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande, Scott W. Tyler

With the green economy being promoted as a path to sustainable development and food security within the African continent, the influx of agricultural land is proliferating at a rapid pace often replacing natural savannah forests. Where agriculture is prima ...

American Geophysical Union2015

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Jean-Claude Bolay, Eileen Hazboun, Silvia Hostettler

Technological innovation is vital for finding solutions to key challenges the world is facing. Climate change, pollution, disease, rising inequalities, and chronic poverty all need to be addressed. We need renewable energy sources, efficient transport netw ...

Springer2015

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Agricultural engineering

Improving slash-and-burn agriculture in Central Menabe, Madagascar

Multi-objective optimization of rainfed and irrigated agricultural areas considering production and environmental criteria: a case study of wheat production in Spain

Performance assessment of integrated sensor orientation with a low-cost GNSS receiver

A Practical Engineering Approach to Interpreting Measurement Data in Uncertain Contexts

Applicability Of New Approaches Of Sensor Orientation To Micro Aerial Vehicles

Biodegradability of HCH in agricultural soils from Guadeloupe (French West Indies): identification of lin genes, involved in HCH degradation pathway

Pesticides use in gardening areas in Burkina Faso and evaluation of the resulting risk for the operator using the new AOEM proposed by EFSA guidelines

Suppressed convective rainfall by agricultural expansion in southeastern Burkina Faso

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Optimization of drip irrigation using a sensor network in Sahel Region (Burkina Faso) - Analysis of soil water and plant dynamics in the framework of project Info4Dourou 2.0

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Pesticides use in gardening areas in Burkina Faso and evaluation of the resulting risk for the operator using the new AOEM proposed by EFSA guidelines

Improving slash-and-burn agriculture in Central Menabe, Madagascar

Multi-objective optimization of rainfed and irrigated agricultural areas considering production and environmental criteria: a case study of wheat production in Spain

Performance assessment of integrated sensor orientation with a low-cost GNSS receiver

Biodegradability of HCH in agricultural soils from Guadeloupe (French West Indies): identification of lin genes, involved in HCH degradation pathway

A Practical Engineering Approach to Interpreting Measurement Data in Uncertain Contexts

Applicability Of New Approaches Of Sensor Orientation To Micro Aerial Vehicles

Suppressed convective rainfall by agricultural expansion in southeastern Burkina Faso

Technologies for Development. What is Essential?

Optimization of drip irrigation using a sensor network in Sahel Region (Burkina Faso) - Analysis of soil water and plant dynamics in the framework of project Info4Dourou 2.0