Browsing by Subject "Agriculture"
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3D numerical investigation of poultry farms pollutant emissions over complex terrains
(2015)Wind mapping is of utmost importance in various environmental engineering applications concerning pollution dispersion. The available wind atlases usually provide wind data with low spatial resolution relative to pollution ... -
Afforestation of agricultural land as a measure of management and development of rural areas
(2003)The key measures for the environmental protection of agricultural land in the EEC countries, constitute accompanying measures of reformed Common Agricultural Policy. These measures concern the Reg. 2078/92/EEC about "crop ... -
Agri-Food Surplus, Waste and Loss as Sustainable Biobased Ingredients: A Review
(2022)Ensuring a sustainable supply of food for the world’s fast growing population is a major challenge in today’s economy, as modern lifestyle and increasing consumer concern with maintaining a balanced and nutritious diet is ... -
Agricultural and water resources development in Thessaly, Greece in the framework of new European union policies
(2009)The main challenges that inter-relate sustainable development with water resources management are to secure water for all humanity and for food production as well, to protect the ecosystems, to manage risk, to create public ... -
Agriculture and the threat to biodiversity in sub-saharan Africa
(2015)The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment identified habitat loss due to the extensive growth of agriculture as the primary driver of biodiversity loss. One implication of this is that agricultural intensification has the potential ... -
Application of variable rate fertilizer in a commercial apple orchard
(2013)The spatial variability of yield in an apple orchard is high due to the inherent soil variability and the impact of the environment on the trees. One practice of precision agriculture is the variable rate application (VRA) ... -
Applications of natural zeolites on agriculture and food production
(2017)Zeolites are crystalline hydrated aluminosilicates with remarkable physical and chemical properties, which include losing and receiving water in a reverse way, adsorbing molecules that act as molecular sieves, and replacing ... -
Applying a Convolutional Neural Network in an IoT Robotic System for Plant Disease Diagnosis
(2020)Plant diseases are major threat to green product quality and agricultural productivity. Agronomists and farmers often encounter great difficulties in early detection of plant diseases and controlling their potential ... -
Assess and prognosticate green house gas emissions from agricultural production of EU countries, by implementing, DEA Window analysis and artificial neural networks
(2017)One of the most important policy reforms for the European Union (EU) agriculture was the implementation of the Agenda 2000, which establishes a new framework for subsidies management, decoupled from both crop and animal ... -
Automatic steering control of unmanned vehicles
(2000)The problem of robust automatic steering of an autonomous unmanned vehicle is studied. The problem is solved using a robust P-D feedback controller feeding back the path error and the front steering angle. The design goal ... -
Bioaugmentation of animal feces as a mean to mitigate environmental contamination with anthelmintic benzimidazoles
(2021)Anthelmintics are used to control infestations of ruminants by gastrointestinal nematodes. The limited metabolism of anthelmintics in animals result in their excretion in feces. These could be piled up in the floor of ... -
Biostimulants application: A low input cropping management tool for sustainable farming of vegetables
(2021)Biostimulants, are a diverse class of compounds including substances or microorganism which have positive impacts on plant growth, yield and chemical composition as well as boosting effects to biotic and abiotic stress ... -
Characteristics of Farm Injuries in Greece
(2003)Methodology: During a five-year period (1996-2000), 4,326 unintentional farm injuries have been recorded by the Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System in Greece. Data concerning demographic variables, accident ... -
Circular bio-economy via energy transition supported by Fuzzy Cognitive Map modeling towards sustainable low-carbon environment
(2020)Several energy transition plans attempt to establish low-carbon practices towards a circular bio-economy in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, most actions only try to assuage the impacts of climate change ... -
Comparing Two Hydro-Economic Approaches for Multi-Objective Agricultural Water Resources Planning
(2020)Hydro-economic models are valuable tools that can be used in irrigated agriculture in order to improve the understanding of the status quo of water resources, the role of water in agriculture, and the system behavior under ... -
Cotton lint quality spatial variability and correlation with soil properties and yield
(2005)Seed cotton samples were collected in a field from which yield maps had been taken in the previous three years. The samples were analysed in a High Volume Instrument (HVI) automatic machine to assess the lint quality. ... -
Creation of a remote sensing unmanned aerial system (UAS) for precision agriculture and related mapping applications
(2013)Our goal is to create a fully autonomous airborne remote sensing platform, for the production of various vegetation indices to determine growth, development, yield crop and provide considerable information in real time and ... -
A DEA approach for estimating the agricultural energy and environmental efficiency of EU countries
(2014)This study attempts to evaluate the energy and environmental efficiency of the primary sectors of the EU member state countries. The evaluation is based on a non-radial Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model which allows ... -
Effect of ozonation on the essential oil composition of dried aromatic plants
(2017)Ozonation as an alternative method for the disinfection of dried herb material shows promising results concerning the microbial load reduction. However, there is not enough data about the effect of the method on the essential ... -
Effects on puberty of nutrition-mediated endocrine disruptors employed in agriculture
(2021)Pesticide residues are largely found in daily consumed food because of their extensive use in farming and their long half-life, which prolongs their presence in the environment. Many of these pesticides act as endocrine-disrupting ...