Special Session
Precision agriculture and remote sensing merged new technologies that can contribute to an enhancement of nitrogen use efficiency in agricultural systems. New fertilizer delivery equipment may allow application of variable rates, adjusting application to crop requirements and saving fertilizers. Remote sensors have proven to be a reliable tool for estimating crop nutritional status and crop parameters that determine production. Detection of crop N status may greatly contribute to optimize N fertilization, while avoiding a reduction in crop yield or quality and minimizing losses to the environment.
This session seeks for state-of-the-art communications related to application of sensors, digitalization, and artificial intelligence to optimize N use in cropping systems. Overall, we aim for a multidisciplinary session that could constitute a breakthrough in the application of new technologies to the monitoring and understanding of the general N cycle, and particularly to the application of advance methods and techniques in precision agriculture.
Responsibles
Miguel Quemada
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Professor Miguel Quemada is an Agronomist based at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). His field of expertise is nitrogen and water management in agricultural systems, researching strategies that increase crop nitrogen use efficiency and minimize the environmental impact of nitrogen losses. He is specialized in sustainable management and diversification of farming systems, and he is particularly interested in combining research at field scale with new monitoring technologies (i.e., sensors) to enhance the sustainability of cropping systems. The application of indicators to the analysis of agricultural systems completes his current research lines.
Senior scientist at the Research Centre for the Management of agricultural and Environmental Risks ( CEIGRAM) he also collaborates with the Hydrology and Remote sensing Laboratory (MD, US), the University of Newcastle (UK), the Universidad de Santiago (Chile) and CIMMYT (México). He is a member of the European Expert Nitrogen Panel and act as an External Expert for the European Commission on assessing RTD projects. He is the author of more than 70 scientific articles published in SCI international journals, some of them highly cited. He is associated editor of Agronomy for Sustainable Development and European Journal of Agronomy.
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Professor Miguel Quemada is an Agronomist based at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain). His field of expertise is nitrogen and water management in agricultural systems, researching strategies that increase crop nitrogen use efficiency and minimize the environmental impact of nitrogen losses. He is specialized in sustainable management and diversification of farming systems, and he is particularly interested in combining research at field scale with new monitoring technologies (i.e., sensors) to enhance the sustainability of cropping systems. The application of indicators to the analysis of agricultural systems completes his current research lines.
Senior scientist at the Research Centre for the Management of agricultural and Environmental Risks ( CEIGRAM) he also collaborates with the Hydrology and Remote sensing Laboratory (MD, US), the University of Newcastle (UK), the Universidad de Santiago (Chile) and CIMMYT (México). He is a member of the European Expert Nitrogen Panel and act as an External Expert for the European Commission on assessing RTD projects. He is the author of more than 70 scientific articles published in SCI international journals, some of them highly cited. He is associated editor of Agronomy for Sustainable Development and European Journal of Agronomy.
Jose L. Pancorbo
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Jose Luis Pancorbo was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1990. He received his M.S. degree in forest engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid (UPM), Spain in 2017. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in environmental technology for sustainable agriculture at UPM. He has done a research stay in the Department of Geography, at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).
His research interests include remote sensing and its application in vegetation monitoring. He has different publications in the field of precision agriculture and sensor evaluation. Currently, he is working on multi-sensors approaches for estimating plant biophysical parameters and monitoring land cover changes.
Mr. Pancorbo is a member of the Research Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks (CEIGRAM) and has participated in different international congresses and research projects related to environmental protection.
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Jose Luis Pancorbo was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1990. He received his M.S. degree in forest engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid (UPM), Spain in 2017. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in environmental technology for sustainable agriculture at UPM. He has done a research stay in the Department of Geography, at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).
His research interests include remote sensing and its application in vegetation monitoring. He has different publications in the field of precision agriculture and sensor evaluation. Currently, he is working on multi-sensors approaches for estimating plant biophysical parameters and monitoring land cover changes.
Mr. Pancorbo is a member of the Research Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks (CEIGRAM) and has participated in different international congresses and research projects related to environmental protection.
Urs Schmidhalter
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Urs Schmidhalter is interested in optimizing the nitrogen and water management on the farm level by using proximal and remote sensing in on-farm/agronomical experimentation and breeding.
Targeting the nitrogen management by Precision Farming and evaluating the nitrogen use efficiency by high-throughput phenotyping should allow to better close the nitrogen cycle. A particular interest is to evaluate and develop simplified digital tools involving the farmer.
He holds a Ph.D. in agronomy from ETH Zürich, where he subsequently worked as Senior Scientist and Assistant Professor, and was then heading the Chair of Plant Nutrition at the Technical University of Munich.
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Urs Schmidhalter is interested in optimizing the nitrogen and water management on the farm level by using proximal and remote sensing in on-farm/agronomical experimentation and breeding.
Targeting the nitrogen management by Precision Farming and evaluating the nitrogen use efficiency by high-throughput phenotyping should allow to better close the nitrogen cycle. A particular interest is to evaluate and develop simplified digital tools involving the farmer.
He holds a Ph.D. in agronomy from ETH Zürich, where he subsequently worked as Senior Scientist and Assistant Professor, and was then heading the Chair of Plant Nutrition at the Technical University of Munich.
In addition to oral communications and posters presentations
The Organizing Committee aims to minimize the environmental impacts of the workshop and both N and C footprints will be calculated afterwards.
We encourage an "in-person" attendance but facilitating a remote connection to key activities during the workshop. Seeing how volatile are these times, all scenarios should be considered now, even a new delay if the sanitary situation does not allow a minimum in-person attendance.
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