Palm oil is the most widely traded vegetable oil globally, with demand projected to increase substantially in the future. Almost all oil palm grows in areas that were once tropical moist forests, some of them quite recently. The conversion to date, and future expansion, threatens biodiversity and increases greenhouse gas emissions. Today, consumer pressure is pushing companies toward deforestat...

The proliferation of oil palm plantations has led to dramatic changes in tropical landscapes across the globe. However, relatively little is known about the effects of oil palm expansion on biodiversity, especially in key ecosystem-service providing organisms like pollinators. Rapid land use change is exacerbated by limited knowledge of the mechanisms causing biodiversity decline in the tropics...

African oil palm has the highest productivity amongst cultivated oleaginous crops. Species can constitute a single crop capable to fulfill the growing global demand for vegetable oils, which is estimated to reach 240 million tons by 2050. Two types of vegetable oil are extracted from the palm fruit on commercial scale. The crude palm oil and kernel palm oil have different fatty acid profiles, w...

In this paper, we propose a vision based palm tracking method with three inherently connected components: i) an offline palm detector that locates all possible palm-like objects; ii) a SURF-based tracking module that identifies the tracked palm’s location using historical information; iii) an adaptive skin color model and a patch similarity calculation module. The outputs from the last componen...

The product ion of crude palm oil and palm kernel is a complex problem due to the inf luence of processing variables and environmental factors. These processing variables inf luence the amount of crude palm oil and palm kernel losses during processing. Instead of mathematical model, fuzzy logic approach provides a simpler and easier mechanism to describe the relat ionships between the processin...

Oil palm supplies >30% of world vegetable oil production1. Plantation expansion is occurring throughout the tropics, predominantly in Indonesia, where forests with heterogeneous carbon stocks undergo high conversion rates2–4. Quantifying oil palm’s contribution to global carbon budgets therefore requires refined spatio-temporal assessments of land cover converted to plantations5,6. Here, we rep...

Oil palm empty fruit bunch is abundantly available as waste from oil processing which only used for boiler fuel and plant fertilizers. This study aims to investigate the utilization of a composite reinforcement material be applied raw outer shell Indonesian national standard (SNI) helmets. The materials include bunch, polyester resin BQTN yukalac, catalyst MEKPO. manufacturing process uses hand...

The objective of this study to analyze the effect alkaline pretreatment on structure, composition, and subsequent hydrolysis agricultural wastes. An increase in content reducing sugars after is achieved. Its effectiveness confirmed, offering a practical procedure produce alternative energy. Factors such as calcium hydroxide concentration (0.1 0.5g Ca(OH)2/g-dry matter), liquid solid ratio (12 2...