The relationships between agricultural science, invention, production and consumption are conventionally considered in a hierarchical model with consumption at the basis and science at the pinnacle of the hierarchy. Two important shortcomings of that model as a basis for organizing and managing agricultural research are identified. First, the model does not specify how the direction and intensi...

Agricultural robots are flexible to obtain ambient information across large areas of farmland. However, it needs face two major challenges: data compression and filtering noise. To address these challenges, an encoder for compression, named Tiny-Encoder, was presented compress filter raw information, which can be applied agricultural robots. Tiny-Encoder is based on the operation convolutions p...

Due to the growing complexity of agricultural services the structured development and management of those services becomes more and more important. The following article shows how the concepts and methods of service engineering can be applied to the agricultural domain using nutrient mapping as an exemplary precision farming service.

Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4, Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, 739-8528 Japan Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-7-1, Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, 739-8521 Japan Hokkaido Tokachi Agricultural Experiment Station, Memuro-cho, Hokkaido, 082-0071 Japan Agricultural Research Station-Kade, Faculty of Agriculture University of Ghana, Le...

1Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DEMETER, 15310 Athens, Greece 3Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AD, UK 4School of Biomedical Scienc...