Pub Date : 2017-04-07DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273685
Davy Uwizera, P. McSharry
Agriculture is an important economic sector, employing over half of the workforce in Africa. The main threats that the sector faces are pests, plant diseases and climate change. Assessing and managing the risks posed by climate change for the agricultural sector requires access to high quality weather and crop yield data. Climate change is likely to have an impact on the variability of weather patterns in specific areas, which consequently disrupts the farming calendar. Extreme weather events such as drought have the potential to substantially reduce production. There are many programs across the globe that seek to increase agricultural productivity through specific farming practices, land consolidation and other agricultural strategies. However, their long-term success will also be affected by climate change. This study uses a quantitative approach to develop parsimonious models for forecasting and monitoring the performance of the maize crop while taking account of local rainfall estimated by satellite imagery. Understanding the influence of weather on past crop yields is the first step to quantifying the likely economic impact of climate change. The analysis also assesses the potential for improving the current system of crop land allocation by district in Rwanda.
{"title":"Forecasting and monitoring maize production using satellite imagery in Rwanda","authors":"Davy Uwizera, P. McSharry","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273685","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture is an important economic sector, employing over half of the workforce in Africa. The main threats that the sector faces are pests, plant diseases and climate change. Assessing and managing the risks posed by climate change for the agricultural sector requires access to high quality weather and crop yield data. Climate change is likely to have an impact on the variability of weather patterns in specific areas, which consequently disrupts the farming calendar. Extreme weather events such as drought have the potential to substantially reduce production. There are many programs across the globe that seek to increase agricultural productivity through specific farming practices, land consolidation and other agricultural strategies. However, their long-term success will also be affected by climate change. This study uses a quantitative approach to develop parsimonious models for forecasting and monitoring the performance of the maize crop while taking account of local rainfall estimated by satellite imagery. Understanding the influence of weather on past crop yields is the first step to quantifying the likely economic impact of climate change. The analysis also assesses the potential for improving the current system of crop land allocation by district in Rwanda.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121138038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-07DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273687
G. Arvind, V. G. Athira, H. Haripriya, R. Akshaya Rani, S. Aravind
Agriculture can be split into multiple phases like sowing the seeds, germinating the seeds, irrigating, etc. Our innovation deals with automating certain phases of agriculture, such as irrigation and pest control, using artificial intelligence, machine learning and Internet of things. This can be achieved with the help of Ubiquitous computing (Nomadic computing) and sensors working on the concept of IOT. Initially using data analytics techniques, the data about the moisture level maintained in various soils over the entire period to grow various crops are recorded in an online database. In automation the system uses this data to maintain the moisture level in the soil to grow the desired crop. The moisture level in the soil is monitored using multiple moisture sensors which are located all around the field. When the system finds that the moisture is less in the soil than the required amount, as per the data in the database, the field is irrigated using an existing system which uses mechanical valves to allow water to various fields in the farm. But the existing system only works based on the commands from user, in the form of messages from a mobile computer, to control the valves. The proposed system automates this system by integrating it, using the concept of IOT, to its centralised computer system. The proposed system also includes pest control. Currently we use chemicals to kill the pests, whereas, the proposed system uses an ultrasonic sound emitter to keep the rodents away from the farm. It is scientifically proven that the ultrasonic sounds are capable of keeping the rodents away. Also it is proven that certain frequency sound waves boost the growth rate of crops. Thus using all these technologies, low cost and efficient growth of crops is achieved, helping in development of agriculture field.
{"title":"Automated irrigation with advanced seed germination and pest control","authors":"G. Arvind, V. G. Athira, H. Haripriya, R. Akshaya Rani, S. Aravind","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273687","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture can be split into multiple phases like sowing the seeds, germinating the seeds, irrigating, etc. Our innovation deals with automating certain phases of agriculture, such as irrigation and pest control, using artificial intelligence, machine learning and Internet of things. This can be achieved with the help of Ubiquitous computing (Nomadic computing) and sensors working on the concept of IOT. Initially using data analytics techniques, the data about the moisture level maintained in various soils over the entire period to grow various crops are recorded in an online database. In automation the system uses this data to maintain the moisture level in the soil to grow the desired crop. The moisture level in the soil is monitored using multiple moisture sensors which are located all around the field. When the system finds that the moisture is less in the soil than the required amount, as per the data in the database, the field is irrigated using an existing system which uses mechanical valves to allow water to various fields in the farm. But the existing system only works based on the commands from user, in the form of messages from a mobile computer, to control the valves. The proposed system automates this system by integrating it, using the concept of IOT, to its centralised computer system. The proposed system also includes pest control. Currently we use chemicals to kill the pests, whereas, the proposed system uses an ultrasonic sound emitter to keep the rodents away from the farm. It is scientifically proven that the ultrasonic sounds are capable of keeping the rodents away. Also it is proven that certain frequency sound waves boost the growth rate of crops. Thus using all these technologies, low cost and efficient growth of crops is achieved, helping in development of agriculture field.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131571928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-07DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273692
K. Sahu, R. Ghosh
This Information and Communication Technology (ICT) works as a catalyst in development for its tremendous potential to increase efficiency, productivity, and service quality in agriculture and allied sectors. A village development plan is a written document. It identifies issues of concern to that village. Opportunities, strengths, threats and weaknesses of a village are defined. It also provides practical actions that will result in an improved condition of the village. It provides opportunities for resource mobilization, a vision of what you would like your village to look like, sets out clear goals to achieve that vision, and gives you an action plan to reach out those goals. For preparing of village development plan, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) exercises, Gram-Sava Meetings etc. have been organized. In this way a lots of information have been gathered for each and every villages. It's very difficult to work on village development for the government departments at state, district and block level through written document. Keeping view of the above facts…the present study has been conceived using Information System (IS) concept which will be effectively used after making of the village development plan in an integrated and holistic manner. This project focuses on a dynamic web-based data input and monitoring system which support holistic Village Development Plan (VDP). Through this system different village level information will be stored in all villages. System will also analyze and show district and block wise different domains (i.e., health, education, electrification etc.) and their present status. System will also provide geo-information regarding village boundary, present status of major land and water resources. In this way this system will be very helpful for proper decision making, implementation of different development schemes and effective monitoring.
{"title":"Use of ICT on village development plan (VDP)","authors":"K. Sahu, R. Ghosh","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273692","url":null,"abstract":"This Information and Communication Technology (ICT) works as a catalyst in development for its tremendous potential to increase efficiency, productivity, and service quality in agriculture and allied sectors. A village development plan is a written document. It identifies issues of concern to that village. Opportunities, strengths, threats and weaknesses of a village are defined. It also provides practical actions that will result in an improved condition of the village. It provides opportunities for resource mobilization, a vision of what you would like your village to look like, sets out clear goals to achieve that vision, and gives you an action plan to reach out those goals. For preparing of village development plan, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) exercises, Gram-Sava Meetings etc. have been organized. In this way a lots of information have been gathered for each and every villages. It's very difficult to work on village development for the government departments at state, district and block level through written document. Keeping view of the above facts…the present study has been conceived using Information System (IS) concept which will be effectively used after making of the village development plan in an integrated and holistic manner. This project focuses on a dynamic web-based data input and monitoring system which support holistic Village Development Plan (VDP). Through this system different village level information will be stored in all villages. System will also analyze and show district and block wise different domains (i.e., health, education, electrification etc.) and their present status. System will also provide geo-information regarding village boundary, present status of major land and water resources. In this way this system will be very helpful for proper decision making, implementation of different development schemes and effective monitoring.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127377633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-07DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273696
Leninisha Shanmugam, A. L. A. Adline, N. Aishwarya, G. Krithika
This paper describes an automated diseases detection using remote sensing images. Agriculturists are facing loss due to various crop diseases. It becomes tedious to the cultivators to monitor the crops regularly when the cultivated area is huge (in acres). The most significant part of our research is early detection the disease as soon as it starts spreading on the top layer of the leaves using remote sensing images. This approach has two phases: first phase deals with training of healthy and as well as diseased datasets i.e.) the extraction of threshold values from the image, second phase deals with monitoring of crops and identification of particular disease using canny edge detection algorithm and histogram analysis and also intimate the agriculturists with an early alert message immediately.
{"title":"Disease detection in crops using remote sensing images","authors":"Leninisha Shanmugam, A. L. A. Adline, N. Aishwarya, G. Krithika","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273696","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an automated diseases detection using remote sensing images. Agriculturists are facing loss due to various crop diseases. It becomes tedious to the cultivators to monitor the crops regularly when the cultivated area is huge (in acres). The most significant part of our research is early detection the disease as soon as it starts spreading on the top layer of the leaves using remote sensing images. This approach has two phases: first phase deals with training of healthy and as well as diseased datasets i.e.) the extraction of threshold values from the image, second phase deals with monitoring of crops and identification of particular disease using canny edge detection algorithm and histogram analysis and also intimate the agriculturists with an early alert message immediately.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129775964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273718
S. Sribhavani, H. Sunitha, B. Subhiksha
The happiest moment for any lady is the time they conceive and give a new life to a baby. In modern cities, pregnant ladies are monitored by sophisticated instruments in modern hospitals. As these ladies are basically educated, they get more relevant information from internet and books which helps to lead a healthy pregnancy and delivery period. But, the pregnant ladies in rural areas are normally undergoing health checkup in nearby government hospitals. Due to their personal pressure in their daily life, they may skip the checkup period. They may also not take proper diet and tablets which they are supposed to do at that period. Hence, in this paper mobile based health care monitoring system is proposed which makes periodically send messages to the rural women in their pregnancy period. After their initial checkup and registration, periodic counseling and reminders are given to the rural ladies for their easy and safe delivery. This also provides guidelines to bring up the new born in a healthy and hygienic way. This will guide them in their child growth for a minimum of two years. By this way, the rural women are properly educated about the do's and don't during pre delivery and post delivery period. Hence, it facilitates a healthy growth of the baby in the rural areas.
{"title":"Providing a friendly e-health care environment to rural women during preganncyand child growth","authors":"S. Sribhavani, H. Sunitha, B. Subhiksha","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273718","url":null,"abstract":"The happiest moment for any lady is the time they conceive and give a new life to a baby. In modern cities, pregnant ladies are monitored by sophisticated instruments in modern hospitals. As these ladies are basically educated, they get more relevant information from internet and books which helps to lead a healthy pregnancy and delivery period. But, the pregnant ladies in rural areas are normally undergoing health checkup in nearby government hospitals. Due to their personal pressure in their daily life, they may skip the checkup period. They may also not take proper diet and tablets which they are supposed to do at that period. Hence, in this paper mobile based health care monitoring system is proposed which makes periodically send messages to the rural women in their pregnancy period. After their initial checkup and registration, periodic counseling and reminders are given to the rural ladies for their easy and safe delivery. This also provides guidelines to bring up the new born in a healthy and hygienic way. This will guide them in their child growth for a minimum of two years. By this way, the rural women are properly educated about the do's and don't during pre delivery and post delivery period. Hence, it facilitates a healthy growth of the baby in the rural areas.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127374327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273716
Dominic Mathew, F. S. Rebello, Shobha Rekh, Victor Du John
This technical paper aims at bringing about a huge development in this domestic and agriculture sectors to protect the farmer's interest thereby ensuring the overall growth of this country's economy. The topic is all about introducing a toll-free automation system for farmers who are considered to be the lifeline of India. Automation plays an important role in every field of work and segment of human life in helping the human beings to improve their functioning. Dual-Tone Multi-Frequencies has numerous applications and utilization in a broader perspective. The usage of DTMF touch tones by customer service has increasingly gained its importance and attention in the field of automation albeit it is not free of cost. Considering the poor economical background and condition of majority of Indian farmers, the automation system should be so designed to save their money in a cost effective manner as a onetime investment device. To put it in a nutshell the technicality involved in this project is that DTMF beep ringtone is set as a ringtone in a mobile phone rather than its being used in any distant automation system. The function of DTMF Decoder is to decode DTMF tone in binary numbers that would be received through a missed call. Thus the code generated in the previous step activates the microcontroller that would trigger the relays to operate appropriate appliance that was intended. The whole aim of this project is to design and install a high secured distant controlled toll-free automation system that would empower the farmers to take care of the entire needs in one stroke in their day-to-day agriculture activity.
{"title":"Dual-tone multi-frequency beep tone toll-free automation in agriculture","authors":"Dominic Mathew, F. S. Rebello, Shobha Rekh, Victor Du John","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273716","url":null,"abstract":"This technical paper aims at bringing about a huge development in this domestic and agriculture sectors to protect the farmer's interest thereby ensuring the overall growth of this country's economy. The topic is all about introducing a toll-free automation system for farmers who are considered to be the lifeline of India. Automation plays an important role in every field of work and segment of human life in helping the human beings to improve their functioning. Dual-Tone Multi-Frequencies has numerous applications and utilization in a broader perspective. The usage of DTMF touch tones by customer service has increasingly gained its importance and attention in the field of automation albeit it is not free of cost. Considering the poor economical background and condition of majority of Indian farmers, the automation system should be so designed to save their money in a cost effective manner as a onetime investment device. To put it in a nutshell the technicality involved in this project is that DTMF beep ringtone is set as a ringtone in a mobile phone rather than its being used in any distant automation system. The function of DTMF Decoder is to decode DTMF tone in binary numbers that would be received through a missed call. Thus the code generated in the previous step activates the microcontroller that would trigger the relays to operate appropriate appliance that was intended. The whole aim of this project is to design and install a high secured distant controlled toll-free automation system that would empower the farmers to take care of the entire needs in one stroke in their day-to-day agriculture activity.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117056585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273719
R. Ramya, C. Sandhya, R. Shwetha
Agriculture and allied activities play a vital role in a country's economic prosperity. The conventional methods in agricultural practices have become grossly inadequate to cater to the increasing needs. Thus it has become imperative to adopt novel technologies to raise agricultural standards. This paper proposes a smart farming system in a limited, enclosed area wherein different sensors are strategically positioned to measure parameters such as moisture content, temperature, pressure, light intensity and pH of the soil. This is devised in such a way that it could be setup by any individual at minimum cost. Thus the productivity is enhanced as the favorable environmental conditions required for the plants are provided.
{"title":"Smart farming systems using sensors","authors":"R. Ramya, C. Sandhya, R. Shwetha","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273719","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture and allied activities play a vital role in a country's economic prosperity. The conventional methods in agricultural practices have become grossly inadequate to cater to the increasing needs. Thus it has become imperative to adopt novel technologies to raise agricultural standards. This paper proposes a smart farming system in a limited, enclosed area wherein different sensors are strategically positioned to measure parameters such as moisture content, temperature, pressure, light intensity and pH of the soil. This is devised in such a way that it could be setup by any individual at minimum cost. Thus the productivity is enhanced as the favorable environmental conditions required for the plants are provided.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"1224 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116081274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273676
A. Garba
We present smart water-sharing methods that aim to optimize the water distribution among farms in semiarid regions, where the availability of water is limited. Each farm uses wireless sensors (e.g., temperature, moisture) to locally determine the irrigation needs in the different parts/sectors of the farm and send this information to a community controller, which regulate the overall water distribution. The proposed water-sharing algorithms take as input the available water level/flow of the source and the irrigation need of the different farms; and determine the irrigation time and the amount of water that should be used by the different farms. Similarly, excess water information (e.g., non irrigation based water) is communicated between the farms and community controllers.
{"title":"Smart water-sharing methods for farms in semi-arid regions","authors":"A. Garba","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273676","url":null,"abstract":"We present smart water-sharing methods that aim to optimize the water distribution among farms in semiarid regions, where the availability of water is limited. Each farm uses wireless sensors (e.g., temperature, moisture) to locally determine the irrigation needs in the different parts/sectors of the farm and send this information to a community controller, which regulate the overall water distribution. The proposed water-sharing algorithms take as input the available water level/flow of the source and the irrigation need of the different farms; and determine the irrigation time and the amount of water that should be used by the different farms. Similarly, excess water information (e.g., non irrigation based water) is communicated between the farms and community controllers.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126882020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273706
E. S. Lubana
Nitrogen and Phosphorus, two of the most vital soil nutrients required by plants, should be present in a ratio of 4:1 to ensure a healthy growth of the plant. However, the current scenario for India sees a ratio of 24:1. This is due to over fertilization of the fields. Precision Agriculture can lead to better yield, reduced expenditure on fertilizers, and thus greater outputs for the farmer. The laboratory methods used for soil analysis are too tedious and time-consuming. The proposed solution entails the use of digital cameras for calculating spectral parameters like NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) which can help determine the leaf nitrogen content. Albeit, digital cameras have been used in the past, a new methodology has been proposed, with arguments explaining why the earlier findings were erroneous in nature. An implementation of the proposed methodology has been compared with Greenseeker's Handheld Crop Sensor for determining the value of NDVI. Statistical analysis revealed a non-significant difference (t=-0.348) in the mean values calculated by the two devices; evidently, the performance of the proposed methodology is at par and can be used for the determination of NDVI. Also, the pilot implementation of the methodology cost 40 times less than the Greenseeker's Handheld Crop Sensor, hence catering to the important demand of economically viable alternatives for soil testing analysis.
{"title":"A novel methodology for using digital cameras to calculate spectral parameters","authors":"E. S. Lubana","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273706","url":null,"abstract":"Nitrogen and Phosphorus, two of the most vital soil nutrients required by plants, should be present in a ratio of 4:1 to ensure a healthy growth of the plant. However, the current scenario for India sees a ratio of 24:1. This is due to over fertilization of the fields. Precision Agriculture can lead to better yield, reduced expenditure on fertilizers, and thus greater outputs for the farmer. The laboratory methods used for soil analysis are too tedious and time-consuming. The proposed solution entails the use of digital cameras for calculating spectral parameters like NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) which can help determine the leaf nitrogen content. Albeit, digital cameras have been used in the past, a new methodology has been proposed, with arguments explaining why the earlier findings were erroneous in nature. An implementation of the proposed methodology has been compared with Greenseeker's Handheld Crop Sensor for determining the value of NDVI. Statistical analysis revealed a non-significant difference (t=-0.348) in the mean values calculated by the two devices; evidently, the performance of the proposed methodology is at par and can be used for the determination of NDVI. Also, the pilot implementation of the methodology cost 40 times less than the Greenseeker's Handheld Crop Sensor, hence catering to the important demand of economically viable alternatives for soil testing analysis.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131684018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273699
R. K. Nayak, V. G. Athira, D. Selvan, S. S. Kumar
Rice husk generated as a rice processing by-product is an important energy resource. The availability of this resource in India has been assessed and the technologies for exploitation of its energy potential in rice processing industry discussed. This document is the report of the Design of Biomass Gasification System for Power Generation using rice husk as the fuel for a solvent extraction unit. The gasifier is designed based on the mass flow rate of producer gas required for IC engine to replace 80% of diesel for generating a power of 300 kw and the mass flow rate of producer gas is decided based on the total heat liberated by burning 80% of diesel inside the combustion chamber which is equal to the heat liberated by the producer. The non-combustible organic matter in the rice husk is partially removed along with the oil that is extracted in the industry, so the amount of tar present in producer gas is comparatively less. The gasifier is designed throat less in order to maintain uniform pressure in the oxidation and reduction zones. Through this biomass gasification system the company can generate power to meet their own requirement in most economical way.
{"title":"Rice husk as an alternate fuel","authors":"R. K. Nayak, V. G. Athira, D. Selvan, S. S. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2017.8273699","url":null,"abstract":"Rice husk generated as a rice processing by-product is an important energy resource. The availability of this resource in India has been assessed and the technologies for exploitation of its energy potential in rice processing industry discussed. This document is the report of the Design of Biomass Gasification System for Power Generation using rice husk as the fuel for a solvent extraction unit. The gasifier is designed based on the mass flow rate of producer gas required for IC engine to replace 80% of diesel for generating a power of 300 kw and the mass flow rate of producer gas is decided based on the total heat liberated by burning 80% of diesel inside the combustion chamber which is equal to the heat liberated by the producer. The non-combustible organic matter in the rice husk is partially removed along with the oil that is extracted in the industry, so the amount of tar present in producer gas is comparatively less. The gasifier is designed throat less in order to maintain uniform pressure in the oxidation and reduction zones. Through this biomass gasification system the company can generate power to meet their own requirement in most economical way.","PeriodicalId":149469,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128366817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：