Precision Agriculture: Emerging Technologies for Management of High-quality Production Lav Khot, Assistant Professor

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1 Precision Agriculture: Emerging Technologies for Management of High-quality Production Lav Khot, Assistant Professor Department of Biological Systems Engineering Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems

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4 Precision Agriculture Producing more with less ( Global Position System Guidance, Navigation Measure, Analyze Yield Mapping Site- Specific Sensors and Remote Sensing Measure, Analyze Variable Rate Technology Manage

5 Precision Agriculture Lab Producing more with less ( Proximal & Remote Sensing Smart Application Technologies Data to Decision Support Tools

6 Decision Agriculture Big data-driven farming Digital Agriculture Source: Tzounis et al. (2017)

7 Industry SemiElectronics

8 Why Precision/Decision Ag Food security Population vs Production Global climate change Agriculture production (efficient?) Global agricultural productivity GAP report 2015, Global Harvest Initiative

9 Why Precision/Decision Ag

10 Why Precision/Decision Ag

11 Why Precision/Decision Ag

12 Why Precision/Decision Ag

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14 Crop Losses Fruits and vegetables, too good to be wasted Apple sunburn & related: 6-30% Sweet cherry split & related: ~90% Postharvest rots & related: ~7.5%

15 Why Precision/Decision Ag Produce more: healthy beings? Yield f( Genetics, Environment, Farming Practices) + Ɛ

16 Remote sensing: Drones, Satellites Landsat (30m)

17 Remote sensing: Drones, Satellites Landsat (30 m) Sentinel (10 m) Rapideye (5m) Small UAS (9 cm) Planet (3 m)

18 Remote sensing: Drones, Satellites Landsat (30m) Soil Patterns (Planet Scope, 3x3m)

19 Advances in Optical Sensors RGB Multispectral Hyperspectral? Light Detection & Ranging (LiDAR) Thermal imaging 19

20 Sensing Platforms Handheld Ground-based Aerial

21 Remote sensing: Drones, Satellites Platforms Customized sensors Geospatial mapping solutions (Service providers) Integration with Loworbiting satellites data Source: PlanetLabs.com

22 UAS Imaging

23 UAS Imaging

24 Agras MG-1 (DJI) UAS Non- Imaging

25 Blueberry/ Cherry frost/freeze damage control Apple sunburn/heat stress Monitoring is critical

26 Novel Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-time Crop Management

27 Novel Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-time Crop Management 4.8 C C

28 How plants communicate? Volatile Sensing Mass Spectrometry Gas Chromatography Selected ion flow tube Proton transfer reaction Electronic nose Metal-oxide Conducting polymer Nanofibers Odorant binding protein Baldwin, Current Biology, 20 (9), (Source: Materić et al. 2015) R392 Biotic Stress: Methyl salicylate, C 6 aldehydes and alcohols Differential ion mobility spectrometry Separation of ions at atmospheric pressure and room temperature Climate: Isoprenoids, Terpenoids

29 Smart Application Technologies: Why? Transition to modern tree architectures

30 Variable Rate Sprayers Orchards Nursery & Orchards Chen, Zhu & Ozkan (2012) Olive Citrus Pe rez-ruiz, Agu era, Gil & Slaughter (2010) Khot, Ehsani et al. (2013, 2014)

31 Precision Sprayer

32 Mid-sized UAS Surgical spraying in WA tree-fruit Grapevine surgical spraying Dr. Ken Giles, UC Davis ( Surgical applications in row & field crops DP-14 (Source: Dragonfly Pictures, Inc.)

33 WSU Team MSU Lead USDA SCRI: SSCDS- An efficient, sustainable and safer spray technology for perennial fruit ( ) Dr. L. R. Khot Transition to modern spray system Ms. G.-A. Hoheisel Mr. R. Sinha Dr. M. Grieshop

34 MSU Lead WSU Team Dr. L. R. Khot USDA SCRI: SSCDS- An efficient, sustainable and safer spray technology for perennial fruit ( ) Transition to modern tree architectures to Solid Set Canopy Delivery System Ms. G.-A. Hoheisel Mr. R. Sinha Dr. M. Grieshop SSCD optimization and testing in apple

35 Challenges: Precision & Decision Agriculture Input Output 4C s

36 Clouds Issues: o Correction for sunlight/shadow variations o Metadata standards (sensors, flight) o Image quality standards

37 Cloud Connectivity Issues: o Network connectivity o Data security/ownership o? Source: Tzounis et al. (2017)

38 Cloud Connectivity

39 Computing Artificial Intelligence Camera (emoji s) Language translator Monitor user behavior Security Voice assistance 8-corearchitecture 5 trillionoperations per second Core ML runsup to 9x fasterthan A11 Bionic

40 Chemicals Issue: MRLs [Maximum Residue Limits] Solution: Alternate spray materials/ technologies Biopesticides Sprayer Plant mineral oils Ozonated Water Highly refined petroleum oils

41 Thank you! CONTACT: Lav Khot, Ph

42 Precision Agriculture Producing more with less ( Doing the right thing, in the right place, the right way, at the right time (Pierce & Frye, 1998) Satellite farming or site specific crop management based on observing, measuring and responding to inter and intra-field variability in crops (Wiki; Singh et al., 2008)