This project uses hyperspectral camera's and multi-exposure to predict the landing of individual fertilizer granules.

The main objective of the project is the optimization of plant protection products as crop protection mechanism through the use of new design techniques and electronic control technologies integration which achieve a higher efficiency of treatments, maintain the crop quality, reduce costs and minimize the plant protection impact on environment.

In agriculture sector, an incorrect application of phytosanitary products increases the production costs and the environment impact on public health and on natural resources, causing soil and water contamination and decreasing the productivity. Furthermore, an excess application can extinguish other species and can affect to workers, farmers and close population, in addition to negative effects on environment. Current machinery can reach 4 km per hour with a width of 14 meters and applying products on 6,6 hectares per hour.

Automated Weeder Separates Friend from Foe. Friday, February 20, 2015 New technology being developed by the University of California – Davis is putting precision weed control onto farm equipment, which will eliminate the need for much of today’s manual labor. This is not your granddad’s weed whacker.

Case Study: Maximising production from our limited water resource and unlocking the power of variable rate irrigation INDUSTRY: AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION The Need: Reducing the water required to irrigate crops, thereby increasing the land area that can be irrigated from existing water takes, and reducing the nutrient leaching that can result from over irrigation and cause groundwater contamination. The Solution: Lincoln Agritech has been awarded Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment science funding to develop a novel, cost-effective moisture sensor that is capable of remo

Development of a smart ultrasonic sensor to measure pasture dry matter or crop growth. The research program is led by the University of Auckland, with AgResearch and Gallagher as partners.

This project uses hyperspectral sensors to look at nutrients in the landscape. The ultimate goal is to be able to evaluate fertiliser requirements in hill country without having to do traditional soil and pasture testing. This project is under a "Primary Growth Partnership" (PGP) with Ravensdown and Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) New Zealand. The Pioneering to Precision programme, led by Ravensdown, seeks to improve fertiliser practice on hill country farms through remote sensing of the nutrient status of the farms and precision application of fertiliser.

Mobile Nitrogenous Gas Sensor for Air Quality, Breeding, and Farming applications The objective of M3GA project is the development of a novel miniaturized tool to measure trace concentrations of nitrous oxide (N2O) and ammonia (NH3) in the air on to be used to monitor and manage of ventilation in livestock buildings or to monitor emissions from agriculture. The control of N2O and NH3 emissions from agriculture is becoming a great challenge for the next years: in France agriculture and farming account for more than 90% of the N2O and NH3 emissions.

The Sun Agri 2B project involves the design and study of dynamic systems agricultural photovoltaics system to resolve land use conflicts between food and energy production.

The aim of the project is to develop a new connected rubber mattress for dairy cows, improving their welfare and monitoring of breeding parameters.

IDFS project aims to develop a new sensor system for providing information on water requirements of plants. This system will be integrated to an existing robot, used for weed control: Anatis.

CAP'INOV The project, led by the young company INOZY, aims to develop a permanent system of sensors located on the vines, for taking continuous measurements on the water and mineral status of the plant, without implementation destructive measurements.

The project developed by the company C.I.T.F. (Industrial Design & Technology Futures) consists of an automatic berries sorting system, using a robotic device with optical recognition. The objective is to remove all waste and impurities from the harvest that could degrade the quality of the juice obtained for vinification.

The goal of this project is therefore to substantially advance the state-of-the-art in the direction of overcoming the above-mentioned issues by employing a team of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) as robotic platform, with a particular focus on quadrotor MAVs (a widespread and easily customizable mobile robotic platform with low cost, high agility and pervasiveness in 3D space).

The project is focusing the effort to reduce inputs in vineyards. By using new biostimulants based marine algae or plants capable of improving the efficiency of stimulators natural defenses; By developing an embedded imaging processing systems to track the effects of these bio-stimulants and stimulators of natural defenses of plants; By developing a spraying system to optimize their application.