Smart Sensing Systems and AI for Precision Agriculture
Precision agriculture (PA) combines technologies and practices that assure the optimization of the operations associated with agricultural production through specific farm management.
Regarding the technologies used, distributed smart sensing systems characterized by fixed and mobile nodes (initiated on remote sensing and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)) are employed to turn the farming operations into data, and to optimize the future operation based on data driven models that can be part of digital twins applied in precision agriculture. Edge and cloud computing platforms that are capable to run AI/ML algorithms may contribute to helping human decisions.
The presentation is focusing on digital transformation of agriculture in the context of heavily uncertainty associated with climate change. The IoT ecosystem technologies for precision agriculture will be discussed including multimodal sensing and artificial intelligence. In-situ and remote sensing are considered special attention being granted to the soil characteristics monitoring (moisture and macronutrients concentration). The agriculture UAV imagery and satellite imagery solutions as well as the relation between the data coming from the in-situ distributed smart sensors and acquired images using multispectral and thermographic camera and imagery techniques will be part of the presentation, including elements of virtualization in the case of digital twins implementation. AI multiple sources data driven models for an increased crops quality through the optimization of farming operations as examples of data driven models for smart irrigation and nutrients will be discussed.
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- Co-sponsored by Ehsan Abbasi
- Starts 22 November 2025 05:00 AM UTC
- Ends 26 November 2025 05:00 AM UTC
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Dr. Octavian Postolache of ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Biography:
Dr. Octavian Adrian Postolache is an electrical engineer and Full Professor at ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa and Senior researcher of Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Lisbon, Portugal. His fields of interest are smart sensors, WSN, IoT for precision agriculture, artificial intelligence for automated measurement systems, intelligent transportation. Dr. Postolache is author and co-author of 10 patents, 12 books, 21 book chapters, and more than 400 papers in international journals and indexed conferences with peer review. He developed important research work in the field of environment monitoring, and he participated as PI or member in national and international Agriculture 4.0 projects such as AGROECOINN and SmartFarm 4.0 Colab. He is IEEE Senior Member, IEEE IMS Distinguished Lecturer, chair of IEEE IMS Chapter Chair Liaison, IEEE IMS TC-13 and he is current chair of IEEE IMS Portugal Chapter. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement and IoT from Elsevier. He received IEEE outstanding reviewer and the outstanding associate editor from IEEE Transactions in Instrumentation and Measurement and IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE IMS outstanding distinguished lecturer and other awards related to his research activity at different international forums. He served as project evaluator for different scientific founding agencies.
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Address:ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Department of Information Science and Technology, Lisboa, Portugal