Adapting variable rate technology (VRT) to Argentine conditions requires methods that use inexpensive information and that focus on the inputs and variability common to Argentine maize and soybean growing areas. The goal of this study is to determine if spatial regression analysis of yield monitor data can be used to estimate the site-specific crop Nitrogen (N) response needed to fine tune vari...

in the present study, an attempt has been made to use data envelopment analysis (dea) for assessing the technical efficiency and return-to-scale for greenhouse cucumber production in iran. for this purpose, the data from greenhouses in esfahan province, during one period of plant cultivation in one year including spring plants were randomly collected. the results indicated that total input ener...

The frequent occurrence of meteorological disasters in China has caused huge losses to agriculture. Risk assessment serves as a bridge from disaster crisis management risk management. Therefore, it is necessary carry out refined comprehensive typical areas. However, several limitations remain the loss research, such too coarse resolution and single indicator. Additionally, less research examine...

* Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (J. Cho), sm 1537-5110/$ – see front matter Published by doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2009.01.012 The dynamic agricultural non-point source assessment tool (DANSAT) is a distributedparameter, physically based, and continuous-simulation model for simulating spatial and temporal impacts of best management practices (BMPs) on hydrology and water...

in the analysis of spatial point patterns, complete spatial randomness (csr) hypothesis,which is a restriction of a homogenous poisson process to study region a, operates as a dividinghypothesis between “regular” and “aggregated” patterns. meanwhile, many alternatives to csr inaggregated patterns are extensions of homogenous poisson processes themselves. therefore, when thecsr hypothesis is rej...

Determining fuel areal density (ρR) in moderate-ρR (100-200 mg/cm 2) cryogenic DT implosions is challenging as it requires new spectrometry techniques and analysis methods to be developed. In this paper, we describe a new method for analyzing the spectrum of knock-on deuterons (KO-D), elastically scattered by primary DT neutrons, from which a fuel ρR can be inferred for values up to ~200 mg/cm ...

Few association mapping studies have simultaneously accounted for population structure, genotype by environment interaction (GEI), and spatial variation. In this sugarcane association mapping study we tested models accounting for these factors and identified the impact that each model component had on the list of markers declared as being significantly associated with traits. About 480 genotype...

We present a vision system that automatically predicts yield in vineyards accurately and with high resolution. Yield estimation traditionally requires tedious hand measurement, which is destructive, sparse in sampling, and inaccurate. Our method is efficient, high-resolution, and it is the first such system evaluated in realistic experimentation over several years and hundreds of vines spread o...