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Applications of Data Analysis in Agriculture—2nd Edition
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Applications of Data Analysis in Agriculture—2nd Edition

A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Digital Agriculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2024 | Viewed by 2194

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Dr. Xanthoula Eirini Pantazi

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Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Postal Box 275, 15424 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: artificial intelligence; biosystems engineering; automation; yield prediction; crop disease detection; weed management; remote sensing; data fusion; machine learning; deep learning; hyperspectral imaging; fluorescence kinetics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue offers the opportunity for both agricultural experts and data analysts to share meaningful insights and latest advancements regarding their research findings by employing data analysis tools in the form of high-impact publications. The paper contributions of the SI are expected to focus on the main advantages derived from data analytics that significantly contribute to the future of digital agriculture, including improved monitoring and farm management, enhanced traceability and equipment reliability and risk mitigation via forecasting. The current Special Issue will be a unique opportunity to highlight a detailed and comprehensive presentation of the employed data analysis tools, the machine learning techniques and sensor technologies that can be effectively combined to enable effective decision-making for practical and sustainable solutions in agriculture.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • All aspects of data analytics tools;
  • Artificial Intelligence in agricultural data analysis;
  • Deep learning in agricultural data analysis;
  • Data analysis for predictive maintenance;
  • Decision support systems for crop protection and monitoring;
  • Environmental data analysis and knowledge management;
  • Machine learning in agricultural data analysis;
  • Multisensor data fusion;
  • Smart farming and its application in data analysis;
  • Remote and proximal sensing.

Dr. Xanthoula Eirini Pantazi
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Agriculture is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • digital agriculture
  • agricultural decision support system
  • precision agriculture
  • machine learning in agriculture
  • deep learning in agriculture
  • artificial intelligence in agriculture
  • remote sensing in agriculture
  • proximal sensing in agriculture
  • multisensor data fusion

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An Accurate Approach for Predicting Soil Quality Based on Machine Learning in Drylands
by Radwa A. El Behairy, Hasnaa M. El Arwash, Ahmed A. El Baroudy, Mahmoud M. Ibrahim, Elsayed Said Mohamed, Nazih Y. Rebouh and Mohamed S. Shokr
Agriculture 2024, 14(4), 627; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14040627 - 18 Apr 2024
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Nowadays, machine learning (ML) is a useful technology due to its high accuracy in constructing non-linear models and algorithms that can adapt to the complexity and diversity of data. Thus, the current work aimed to predict the soil quality index (SQI) from extensive [...] Read more.
Nowadays, machine learning (ML) is a useful technology due to its high accuracy in constructing non-linear models and algorithms that can adapt to the complexity and diversity of data. Thus, the current work aimed to predict the soil quality index (SQI) from extensive soil data, achieving high accuracy with the artificial neural networks (ANN) model. However, the efficiency of ANN depends on the accuracy of the data that is prepared for training. For this purpose, MATLAB programming language was used to enable the calculation, classification, and compilation of the results into databases within a few minutes. The proposed MATLAB program was highly efficient, accurate, and quick in calculating soil big data for training the machine compared with traditional methods. The database contains 306 vector sets, 80% of them are used for training and the remaining 20% are reserved for testing. The optimal model obtained comprises one hidden layer with 250 neurons and one output layer with a sigmoid function. The ANN achieved a high coefficient of determination (R2) values for SQI estimation, with around 0.97 and 0.98 for training and testing, respectively. The results indicate that 36.93% of the total soil samples belonged to the very high quality class (C1). In contrast, the high quality (C2), moderate quality (C3), low quality (C4), and very low quality (C5) classes accounted for 10.46%, 31.37%, 20.92%, and 0.33% of the samples, respectively. The high contents of CaCO3, pH, sodium saturation, salinity, and clay content were identified as limiting factors in certain areas. The results of this study indicated high accuracy of soil quality assessment using physical, chemical, and fertility soil features in regression analysis with ANN. This method, which is suitable for arid zones, enhances agricultural productivity and decision-making by identifying critical soil quality categories and constraints. Full article
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Hybrid Deep Neural Networks with Multi-Tasking for Rice Yield Prediction Using Remote Sensing Data
by Che-Hao Chang, Jason Lin, Jia-Wei Chang, Yu-Shun Huang, Ming-Hsin Lai and Yen-Jen Chang
Agriculture 2024, 14(4), 513; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14040513 - 22 Mar 2024
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Recently, data-driven approaches have become the dominant solution for prediction problems in agricultural industries. Several deep learning models have been applied to crop yield prediction in smart farming. In this paper, we proposed an efficient hybrid deep learning model that coordinates the outcomes [...] Read more.
Recently, data-driven approaches have become the dominant solution for prediction problems in agricultural industries. Several deep learning models have been applied to crop yield prediction in smart farming. In this paper, we proposed an efficient hybrid deep learning model that coordinates the outcomes of a classification model and a regression model in deep learning via the shared layers to predict the rice crop yield. Three statistical analyses on the features, including Pearson correlation coefficients (PCC), Shapley additive explanations (SHAP), and recursive feature elimination with cross-validation (RFECV), are proposed to select the most relevant ones for the predictive goal to reduce the model training time. The data preprocessing normalizes the features of the collected data into specific ranges of values and then reformats them into a three-dimensional matrix. As a result, the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of the proposed model in rice yield prediction has achieved 344.56 and an R-squared of 0.64. The overall performance of the proposed model is better than the other deep learning models, such as the multi-parametric deep neural networks (MDNNs) (i.e., RMSE = 370.80, R-squared = 0.59) and the artificial neural networks (ANNs) (i.e., RMSE = 550.03, R-squared = 0.09). The proposed model has demonstrated significant improvement in the predictive results of distinguishing high yield from low yield with 90% accuracy and 94% F1 score. Full article
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Research on Entity and Relationship Extraction with Small Training Samples for Cotton Pests and Diseases
by Weiwei Yuan, Wanxia Yang, Liang He, Tingwei Zhang, Yan Hao, Jing Lu and Wenbo Yan
Agriculture 2024, 14(3), 457; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14030457 - 11 Mar 2024
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The extraction of entities and relationships is a crucial task in the field of natural language processing (NLP). However, existing models for this task often rely heavily on a substantial amount of labeled data, which not only consumes time and labor but also [...] Read more.
The extraction of entities and relationships is a crucial task in the field of natural language processing (NLP). However, existing models for this task often rely heavily on a substantial amount of labeled data, which not only consumes time and labor but also hinders the development of downstream tasks. Therefore, with a focus on enhancing the model’s ability to learn from small samples, this paper proposes an entity and relationship extraction method based on the Universal Information Extraction (UIE) model. The core of the approach is the design of a specialized prompt template and schema on cotton pests and diseases as one of the main inputs to the UIE, which, under its guided fine-tuning, enables the model to subdivide the entity and relationship in the corpus. As a result, the UIE-base model achieves an accuracy of 86.5% with only 40 labeled training samples, which really solves the problem of the existing models that require a large amount of manually labeled training data for knowledge extraction. To verify the generalization ability of the model in this paper, experiments are designed to compare the model with four classical models, such as the Bert-BiLSTM-CRF. The experimental results show that the F1 value on the self-built cotton data set is 1.4% higher than that of the Bert-BiLSTM-CRF model, and the F1 value on the public data set is 2.5% higher than that of the Bert-BiLSTM-CRF model. Furthermore, experiments are designed to verify that the UIE-base model has the best small-sample learning performance when the number of samples is 40. This paper provides an effective method for small-sample knowledge extraction. Full article
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