1st Edition

Tools and Technologies for Agriculture 4.0

260 Pages 105 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Tools and Technologies for Agriculture 4.0 demonstrates how smart agriculture enables farmers to achieve economic benefits by enhancing yield and increasing the size and quality of products with minimum cost. It talks about the usage of Internet of Things technology, sensors, remote sensing, digital image processing, artificial intelligence, deep learning, cloud computing, robotics, and... Read more

Chapter 1          Traditional Approach

Chapter 2      Water & Soil Suitability for Cultivation

Chapter 3          Sowing-Plowing

Chapter 4          Water Management

Chapter 5      Plant Growth Monitoring and Management

Chapter 6          Crop Protection

Chapter 7          Harvesting Technologies

Chapter 8          Stubble Management

Chapter 9          Supply chain and Data Management

Chapter 10  Key Technologies & Hardware in Precision Agriculture

Chapter 11  Challenges

Chapter 12  Case Studies

Biography

Mukesh Kumar Saini is currently working as an assistant professor, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India. His areas of research include surveillance, agriculture automation, automatic movie-making, anomaly detection, and information fusion. He has taught courses such as Introduction to Agriculture cyber-physical systems, data structures, computer architectures, multimedia computing, and applications. He has published research papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute.

Neeraj Goel is presently working as an assistant professor, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India. He has more than 12 years of experience in academia and industry with a strong understanding of system-level design flows, VLSI/FPGA design flows, and software development processes. His research interests are in processor architecture, embedded systems, and applied machine learning for agriculture applications. He has published research papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute. He has taught courses including system-level design and modeling, low-power design, digital logic design, and advanced computer architecture.

Simrandeep Singh is currently working as a Postdoc fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India. He worked as an associate professor, in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, at Chandigarh University, Chandigarh, India. He published 17 SCI-indexed research papers, 19 Scopus-indexed papers, 2 Patents, and more than 50 research publications in various international and national journals and conferences. His current research interests include soft computing, diatom analysis, digital image processing, image fusion, edge-preserving filters, high dynamic range imaging, and tone mapping.