Precision SCoRing

🌱 Exciting Opportunity Alert! Join Our Precision Scoring Team at Ghent University 🌾

Are you passionate about cutting-edge research in precision agriculture? If so, we want YOU to be a part of our dynamic team at Precision Scoring, Ghent University, Belgium! 🌿

📢 Position: Postdoc Researcher in Precision Agriculture
📍 Location: Ghent University, Belgium
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If you're ready to make a significant impact on the future of farming and agriculture, we want to hear from you! Join our team at Ghent University and be a part of the precision agriculture revolution. 🚜🌾

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📣 Exciting News! 🚀 our group at Ghent University's Faculty of Bioscience Engineering is opening a new position for a Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineer! 💡

Are you passionate about the intersection of engineering and life sciences? Do you thrive in a dynamic and collaborative research environment? We have an amazing opportunity waiting for you! Join our team and contribute to groundbreaking research and innovation at one of Europe's leading universities. 🌍

🔬 Position: Mechanical/Mechatronics Engineer

🏢 Organization: Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

🌐 Location: Ghent, Belgium

📝 How to Apply:

Check out this link: https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Mechanical-or-mechatronics-engineer/772874702/

Don't miss this incredible opportunity to join Ghent University's Faculty of Bioscience Engineering! Spread the word, tag your engineering friends, and let's shape the future of technology together. 🌱💪

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We are pleased to share that six of our group members have participated in the AgEng-LAND.TECHNIK 2022 conference in Berlin and presented the following topics :
1- Dr. Muhammad Abdul Munnaf: An Automated System of Soil Sensor-based Site-specific Seeding for Silage Maize
2- Mohammad Baraa Almoujahed: Non-destructive detection of Fusarium head blight in wheat kernels and wheat flour using Vis-NIR and mid-infrared spectroscopy
3- Farida Ruma: Potential of vis-NIRS spectroscopy for predicting soil nitrogen mineralization rate
4- Jian Zhang: Phosphorus-based variable rate manure application in wheat and barley
5- Mingyi Zhao: In-field Spatial Variability and Potential for Profitability of Variable Rate Applications
6- Yongjing Wang: Evaluation of site-specific tillage strategies from economic, environmental, and technical perspective.

Thank you VDI Wissensforum GmbH for organizing such an important conference that gathers both academic and industrial parties from different European countries to exchange their knowledge of the latest agriculture technology.

Are you interested to know more about the topics? Please do not hesitate to contact us.

Are you interested in knowing more about the recent developments in intelligent soil and land use management?

we would like to invite you to join the final event for SIEUSoil project on Friday 25th of November 2022 at 09:00 CET.

For more details: https://www.sieusoil.eu/sieusoil-final-event/

Today our guest lecturer, Prof. Muharrem Keskin, from Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey, gave an interesting lecture about Precision Agriculture, Food Security, and Climate Change.

In the following two days, we will also have two more lectures about Proximal Sensing Applications in Agriculture and Precision Agriculture in Turkey.

Are you interested in plant disease detection?

check out our recent publication about Fusarium head blight detection using hyperspectral camera.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169922007645?dgcid=author

Detection of fusarium head blight in wheat under field conditions using a hyperspectral camera and machine learning Fusarium head blight (FHB) is among the most devastating fungal diseases in cereal crops, reducing yield, and affecting human and livestock health thr…

head blight (FHB), caused by the fungal plant pathogen Fusarium graminearum is a devastating of and . Diseased spikelets exhibit symptoms of premature bleaching shortly after infection. The fungus produces a known as that poses a significant threat to the health of domestic animals and humans. In this context, the aim of POSHMyCo is developed a novel solution to reduce the risk of mycotoxin contamination in food products originated from barley and wheat grains by adopting farming . A system for the detection of the spatial distribution of FHB in the field, will be developed to predict the spatial distribution potential of mycotoxin contamination.

As part of the tasks on POSHMyCo project to predict the spatial distribution potential of mycotoxin contamination, on-line field measurements fusarium head blight in cereal crops have been done in , and . Five fields in Lithuania and one in both Spain and Belgium were scanned using the Specim FX 10, (Specim, Finland), FLIR A655sc (Flir Systems, USA) and the three-band Crop Circle ACS-430 (Holland Scientific, Lincoln, NE, USA). At the same time, it was included a differential global positioning system (DGPS) (version CFX-750, Trimble, USA) for recording GPS coordinates during the measurements.

We are delighted to congratulate our group member Munnaf M Abdul for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis on Site-specific Seeding Using Proximal and Remote Sensors Data Fusion. Dr. Munnaf will continue his research career in our group as a postdoc.

Two positions opening! 📢

Are you interested in ?

Do you have the motivation to start your PhD in Europe?

Be part of our team and apply now! 🟢

more information can be found in the links below:

👉The first PhD position title is capture and storage in using advanced : https://www.ugent.be/en/work/scientific/phd-student-70

👉The second PhD position title is Site-specific bio-based using advanced sensing: https://www.ugent.be/en/work/scientific/phd-student-71

PhD Student PhD Student https://www.ugent.be/en/work/scientific/phd-student-71 https://www.ugent.be/logo.png PhD Student Last application date Apr 16, 2022 00:00 Department LA20 - Department of Environment Contract Limited duration Degree MSc in Agriculture Engineering, Biosystems Engineering, Environmental Eng...

We are delighted to congratulate our group member Angela Patricia Guerrero Castillo for successfully defending her thesis on SITE-SPECIFIC NITROGEN FERTILIZATION BASED ON PROXIMAL AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGIES. We wish her good luck for a wonderful and prosperous future ahead.

Kudos Precision SCoRing team!!!

We are delighted to share our memorial event. In the presence of Flemish Minister of Innovation and Agriculture Hilde Crevits, our group lead by Prof. Abdul Mouazen presented the high-tech multifunctional robot along with different variable rate machine technology that takes soil samples, sows, and fertilizes the soil completely independently.
The Odysseus program, which is funded by the Fund for Scientific Research (FWO), was the sponsor for this initiative.
For more information: (in Dutch) : https://www.pzc.nl/gent/hoogtechnologische-robot-van-ugent-neemt-werk-over-van-landbouwers-en-analyseert-zaait-en-besproeit-velden~a37b82c7/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/fr/2021/09/08/l_universite-de-gand-propose-un-robot-de-haute-technologie-aux-a/
https://www.avs.be/artikels/zijn-robots-de-toekomst-van-de-landbouw-a81863

Continuously increasing demand for food for the ever-increasing world population becomes the biggest challenge due to climate change that affects land productivity and crop yield. One of the great challenges due to climate change facing the agricultural sector is how to increase food production by using less water for irrigation. Another issue is the uniform application of water and fertilizers in entire field area adopted by the majority of farmers. This results in over- and under-application over the different parts of the field, leading to poor management of input resources and negative environmental consequences. In the ADDFerti, the solution would be to adopt variable rate fertigation (VRFI) at field scale, by applying right rate on fertilizers and water for irrigation at right time and place using advanced sensing and control technology.

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What technology will be used in ADDFerti for variable rate fertigation?

ADDferti is using the multi-sensor data fusion approach, which is not only economically profitable but also environmentally friendly approach. ADDFerti will establish and validate a full-automated data driven platform for VRFI using the knowledge of algorithms. The platform will use high resolution data collected by proximal and remote sensing tools. The multi-layer soil data obtained by an on-line sensor of UGent (Mouazen, 2006) will be fused with crop data, terrain attributes, water management and fertilisation data to derive management zones (MZs) from raster data for VRFI. The real-time measured soil moisture content (MC) together with the data on crop parameters, and fertility level of each MZ will be used as input data to control water flow in the irrigation system together with N, P, K recommended rates.

Visit our website for all the details: https://addferti.eu/

🏁 POSHMyCo: Precision Agriculture for fighting mycotoxins contamination in cereal crops.🌱

have a significant impact on . Overall, foods contaminated with aflatoxins present a clear threat regarding their impact on human health. species are the main cause of trichothecene type B contamination in cereals. In fact, F. graminearum is considered to be the predominant pathogen causing Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in many countries. FHB can also cause indirect loss, because the fungus contaminates grain with potent mycotoxins, especially deoxynivalenol (DON).

Could the help to minimize the contamination of mycotoxins in cereals?

This question is the main objective of the POSHMyCo project, led by Precision SCoRing, coordinator of the POSHMyCo consortium, a group of researchers from public and private institutions who will determinate whether the risk of mycotoxin contamination in barley and wheat grain can be mitigated by Fusarium Preventive Site Specific Spraying (PSSS) in combination with Selective Harvesting (SH).

POSHMyCo (Potential of selective harvest based on mycotoxins content assessment in cereal crops) is an ambitious and innovative EU-funded ICT-AGRI-FOOD project. Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece), SLU (Sweden), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) and the Precision Agriculture company Agrosap, Soluciones Agrícolas de Precisión S.L. (Spain), coordinated by Ghent University (Belgium) will work together during the next three years to establish an integrated ICT solution of sensing, modelling and control to reduce DON and subsequently decrease the human and livestock risks to mycotoxin exposure, while increasing the farmer profitability.

Visit our project website for all the details: http://www.poshmyco.eu/

ADDFerti "A Data-Driven Platform for Site-Specific Fertigation”.
A new European project led by our group has been launched!

We are happy to announce, that on 30. March 2021 the Kick-off meeting for the research project “A Data-Driven Platform for Site-Specific Fertigation” was held digitally.

The project, led by the Belgian partner Abdul Mouazen, University of Ghent, is about combined fertilization and irrigation. Together with other partners from Switzerland, Greece and Turkey and Germany, an irrigation system is to be coupled with a fertilizer system in order to apply both fertilizer and water on a site-specific basis. This is to be tested on three farms in Turkey, Belgium and Germany.

At the Meeting the project partners presented their respective work packages and apart from organizational topics discussed the technical ins and outs regarding the project. We shared ideas about upgrading the hose-reel irrigation system for variable rate fertigation, the composition of the ICT-infrastructure and the availability of historical yield data.

We also already got some positive effects from the pan-european perspective, since we learned that each country has different main emphasises on the potential impacts of the project. While in Germany the focus is on lowering the amount of nitrate needed in agriculture, in Turkey a much bigger problem is (and will be even more so in the future) the scarcity of water.

The next meeting will be in autumn 2022. At this time the first field experiments in Turkey with the prototypical ICT-infrastructure and the upgraded Hose Reel Irrigation System will already be running and the first yield data will be coming in.

The next meeting will be in autumn 2022. At this time the first field experiments in Turkey with the prototypical ICT-infrastructure and the upgraded Hose Reel Irrigation System will already be running and the first yield data will be coming in.

WORKSHOP on women empowerment and gender equality in RRI
on 27 April 2021 🗓️

This is the first SOILdarity virtual event.

Registration is now OPEN 🟢

More information here: https://www.soildarity.eu/workshop-women-science/

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POSHMyCo has been launched!

We are delighted to announce that a virtual kick-off meeting for the European project, POSHMyCo (POtential of Selective Harvest based on MYcotoxins COntent assessment in cereal crops) led by Prof. Abdul Mouazen, University of Ghent (Belgium) took place on March 25th, 2021. It is a collaborative research project funded under the ERA-NET COFUND ICT-AGRI-FOOD. The project consortium consists of Aristotle University Thessaloniki (Greece), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Soluciones Agrícolas de Precisión S.L. (Spain), University of Sevilla (Spain), and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden).
Mycotoxin contaminated food is one of the serious problems that cause an adverse impact on health ranging from poisoning to cancer upon consumption by humans and animals. One of the possible reasons for the contamination with mycotoxin was believed to be a fungal disease known as Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) which requires a detailed investigation for quantifying the association between FHB and mycotoxin. POSHMyCo is the first of its kind which offers an innovative solution through the use of advanced smart farming technologies for modeling and controlling the FHB through site-specific spraying of fungicide application and selective harvest. This novel solution will prevent health problems and improve economic performance with optimum use of fungicide which in turn reduces the environmental impacts.
UGent team of POSHMyCo consists of Prof. Abdul Mouazen (project leader), Dr. Aravind Krishnaswamy Rangarajan, and Baraa Almoujahed. Our team will be responsible for sensing, implementation, and management work packages. We will collect data using soil and canopy sensors to develop models for forecasting FHB and mycotoxin (DON).
For more information about the project, please do not hesitate to contact us at: [email protected]