Did someone say “farmer-centric”? Digital tools for spatially distributed on-farm experimentation

RGV Bramley, X Song, AF Colaço, KJ Evans… - Agronomy for …, 2022 - Springer
On-farm experimentation (OFE) embeds the conduct of agronomic research within normal
farm business operations such that experiments are driven by farmers' needs for business …

Spatial and temporal biomass and growth for grain crops using NDVI time series

E Perry, K Sheffield, D Crawford, S Akpa, A Clancy… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing from optical radiometers in space offers a nondestructive approach to
estimating above ground biomass (AGB) with high spatial and temporal resolution, but the …

[HTML][HTML] A methods guideline for deep learning for tabular data in agriculture with a case study to forecast cereal yield

J Richetti, FI Diakogianis, A Bender, AF Colaço… - … and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning (ML) and its branch, deep learning (DL), is rapidly evolving and
gaining popularity as it outperforms other, more traditional methods in different areas of …

Digital strategies for nitrogen management in grain production systems: lessons from multi-method assessment using on-farm experimentation

AF Colaço, BM Whelan, RGV Bramley, J Richetti… - Precision …, 2024 - Springer
During the past few decades, a range of digital strategies for Nitrogen (N) management
using various types of input data and recommendation frameworks have been developed …

QVigourMap: A GIS open source application for the creation of canopy vigour maps

L Duarte, AC Teodoro, JJ Sousa, L Pádua - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
In a precision agriculture context, the amount of geospatial data available can be difficult to
interpret in order to understand the crop variability within a given terrain parcel, raising the …

Satellite multispectral indices to estimate canopy parameters and within-field management zones in super-intensive almond orchards

L Sandonís-Pozo, J Llorens, A Escolà, J Arnó… - Precision …, 2022 - Springer
Continuous canopy status monitoring is an essential factor to support and precisely apply
orchard management actions such as pruning, pesticide and foliar treatment applications, or …

Delineation of management zones in hedgerow almond orchards based on vegetation indices from UAV images validated by LiDAR-derived canopy parameters

JA Martínez-Casasnovas, L Sandonís-Pozo, A Escolà… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the challenges in orchard management, in particular of hedgerow tree plantations, is
the delineation of management zones on the bases of high-precision data. Along this line …

Broadacre mapping of wheat biomass using ground-based LiDAR technology

AF Colaço, M Schaefer, RGV Bramley - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Crop biomass is an important attribute to consider in relation to site-specific nitrogen (N)
management as critical N levels in plants vary depending on crop biomass. Whilst LiDAR …

[HTML][HTML] Detection and attribution of cereal yield losses using Sentinel-2 and weather data: A case study in South Australia

K Duan, A Vrieling, M Schlund, UB Nidumolu… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Weather extremes affect crop production. Remote sensing can help to detect crop damage
and estimate lost yield due to weather extremes over large spatial extents. We propose a …

An efficient geostatistical analysis tool for on-farm experiments targeted at localised treatment

H Jin, KS Bakar, BL Henderson, RGV Bramley… - Biosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•We give a spatially-varying local cokriging method for large on-farm
experimentation data.•The new method could recommend high-resolution site-specific …