Hyperautomation in Precision Agriculture

He is a digital image analyst with a passion for remote sensing. Presently, he is working as a Professor and Associate Director (University Institute of Engineering) at Chandigarh University, Punjab, India. He is also practice as an Indian Patent Agent (IN/PA 5806). He received his PhD (Electronics and Communication Engineering - ECE) from I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Punjab, India in 2018. He received his M.Tech (ECE) as a Gold Medalist, and B.Tech (ECE) with Distinction, from Punjab Technical University in 2011 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include electronics, remote sensing, and digital image processing.Dr. Sood is working as Scientist at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, India, under Women Scientist Scheme (WOS) by Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India. She is also founder of a company named as Aiotronics Automation Pvt.Ltd. supported under Himachal Pradesh CM Startup Scheme. She has more than 10 years of experience in the field of academics and research. She received her PhD in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Chitkara University, Punjab in 2020. She has done B. Tech from Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) Shimla, 2008 and M. Tech from Punjab Technical University (PTU) in Electronics and Communication Engineering,2011. She has also done MBA in Human Resource (HR) ,2010. She has authored more than 25 SCI-indexed articles (IEEE, T&F, ELSEVIER, and SPRINGER), SCOPUS indexed book chapters and holds many inventions. Her research interests include satellite sensors, remote sensing, scatterometer and digital image analysis.Dr. Arun Lal Srivastav is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences at Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, India. Dr. Ampatzidis is an Associate Professor leading a research and extension precision agriculture engineering program at the Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (SWFREC) in Immokalee, Florida. He received his B.S. in Agriculture Science in 2002 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in Thessaloniki, Greece, with a major in row crops and ecology. After completing his bachelor’s degree, he enrolled in the Agricultural Engineering department and completed his M.S. in 2005 with an emphasis on precision agriculture and robotics. At the same time, he completed his second bachelor’s degree in Hydraulics, Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering in 2008 (AUTH). He received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from AUTH in 2010 with an emphasis on precision agriculture and automation for specialty crops. His current research focuses on the mechanical harvesting of specialty crops, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, machine vision, precision agriculture, smart machines (e.g., smart spraying technologies), UAVs, and machine systems.

• Section I: Fundamentals of Hyperautomation technology for sustainable agriculture1. A global overview and the fundamentals of sustainable agriculture2. Smart Contracts for Efficient Resource Allocation and Management in Hyperautomated Agriculture Information Systems3. Towards Smart Farming: Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things in Precision Agriculture4. Hyperautomation in agriculture sector by technological devices towards irrigation, crop harvest and storage5. AI-Powered Agriculture and Sustainable Practices in Developing CountriesSection II: Smart agriculture automation using advanced technologies6. A light-weight Deep Learning model for plant disease detection in hyperautomation7. Mapping and Retrieval of Agricultural Parameters using Artificial Intelligence8. Sustainable Plant Disease Protection Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning9. Cereal crop yield prediction using machine learning techniques10. Estimation of soil properties for sustainable crop production using multisource data fusionSection III: Advances in remote sensing for precision crop production11. Detecting the stages of Ragi crop diseases using satellite data in villages of Nanjangud taluk12. Soil and field analysis using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for smart and sustainable farming13. Crop Land Assessment with Deep Neural Network using Hyperspectral Satellite Dataset14. Development of Soil moisture maps using image fusion of MODIS and optical dataset15. Advance remote sensing technologies for crop disease and pest detection16. Estimating Soil Moisture in Semi-Arid Areas for Winter Wheat Using Sentinel-1 and Support Vector AlgorithmsSection IV: Robotic/Digital Process Automation (RPA/DPA) in agriculture and field applications17. Autonomous Robotic Leaf Retrieval18. Robotics-assisted precision and sustainable irrigation, harvesting and fertilizing processes19. Computer Vision Technology for Weed Detection20. LiDAR/RADAR robots in monitoring and mapping crop growth for sustainable crop productionSection V: Emerging trends and case studies in Hyperautomation of Sustainable Agriculture21. Is Hyper-automation is playing a significant role in Smart Agriculture?22. Predictive Irrigation: Current practice and Future Prospects23. Design and fabrication of quad copter for agriculture seeding24. hallenges and future trends in the Hyperautomation of Sustainable Agriculture25. Techniques and applications of deep learning in smart agriculture systems26. Investigation of Automated Plant disease detection Framework using Machine Learning Classifier with novel Segmentation and Feature Extraction Strategy27. Hyperautomation in precision agriculture using different unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)28. Emerging Trends of hyperautomation in decision-making process & sustainable crop production29. Remote sensors for hyper-automation in agriculture