4 papers
From General to Specialized: The Need for Foundational Models in Agriculture
Vishal Nedungadi, Xingguo Xiong, Aike Potze +4
Food security remains a global concern as population grows and climate change intensifies, demanding innovative solutions for sustainable agricultural productivity. Recent advances…
AirCast: Improving Air Pollution Forecasting Through Multi-Variable Data Alignment
Vishal Nedungadi, Muhammad Akhtar Munir, Marc RuÃwurm +5
Air pollution remains a leading global health risk, exacerbated by rapid industrialization and urbanization, contributing significantly to morbidity and mortality rates. In this pa…
Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the Web: utopia or reality?
Diego Marcos, Robert van de Vlasakker, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis +7
Plant morphological traits, their observable characteristics, are fundamental to understand the role played by each species within their ecosystem. However, compiling trait informa…
To Measure or Not: A Cost-Sensitive, Selective Measuring Environment for Agricultural Management Decisions with Reinforcement Learning
Hilmy Baja, Michiel Kallenberg, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
Farmers rely on in-field observations to make well-informed crop management decisions to maximize profit and minimize adverse environmental impact. However, obtaining real-world cr…