Focus on agricultural technologies from the free online conference DIGICROP from March 28 to 30

The International Conference on Digital Technologies for Sustainable Agricultural Production (DIGICROP) will be held from March 28-30. The conference is a fully remote event with presentations in video format followed by discussions.

DIGICROP 2022 is organized by the German cluster of excellence "PhenoRob - Robotics and phenotyping for sustainable agricultural production" of the University of Bonn and the AI ​​Institute for Next Generation Food Systems. It brings together researchers from all disciplines who develop, propose, use or evaluate new digital technologies to improve the sustainability of plant production, plant breeding, biodiversity and ecosystems. The objective of the event is to foster a strong international and interdisciplinary dialogue in these thematic areas.

Although scientists and researchers give fairly technical presentations, the conference is open to the public, said Hanna Bartram, education and public engagement coordinator for the AI ​​Institute for Next Generation Food Systems. . The institute is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, as part of a larger initiative led by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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Attendees can view all lectures in advance and find out the program of the live event at https://digicrop.de/program.

"All the discussions are already on the website. People can watch them now," said Andy Lyons, program coordinator for computing and GIS at the University of California for Agriculture and Resources. Naturals, partner of the AI ​​Institute for Next Generation Food Systems. "The live event from March 28-30 will be dedicated to Q&A with the presenters."

Farmworkers will swap their hoes for mechanical weeders. Robotic weeders show more promise than herbicides for weeding small crop areas, says Steve Fennimore.

Examples of presentations:

Keynote Speaker Stavros Vougioukas, Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis: Robotic Harvesters and Harvesting Aids: Challenges and Opportunities Steve Fennimore, UC Cooperative Extension Specialist at UC Davis: Automated weed removal technologies dramatically improve the resilience of vegetable weed management programs Christine Diepenbrock, Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis: Digital and AI Technologies to Improve Crop Nutritional Quality and Abiotic Stress Tolerance Isaya Kisekka, Associate Professor of Agrohydrology and Water Management in the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources and the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis: Assessing the Effect of Soil Heterogeneity on root zone water dynamics in almond orchards using electrical resistivity tomography Joshua Viers, Professor of Water Resources Management at UC Merced's School of Engineering: AI for Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley: Using Inclusive Innovation to Break the Productivity Paradox

Registration is open until March 24 and is free. To register, go to https://digicrop.de/register.

Join the live event from March 28-30 starting at 8:00 a.m. PT via Zoom. Zoom links will be available a few days before the conference via the conference area (login required) at https://digicrop.de/conference-area.

For more information, please contact the conference organizers at digicrop2022@phenorob.de. To join the discussion on Twitter, follow #DIGICROP2022 and @ai_nextgenfood.

The AI ​​Institute for Next Generation Food Systems brings together more than 40 researchers from six institutions: UC Davis; UC Berkeley; Cornell University; the University of Illinois...