Recent Trends: Sensing in Agriculture

Precision farming is the need of the time to address food security for the region, nation and world as a whole. Different sensors are the most critical and integral part of precision irrigation, nutrient-management and crop health monitoring. In addition to precision-irrigation and nutrient-management, early disease detection is another critical area for farmers, since most farmers do not have deep know-how to effectively detect and manage them most efficiently, resulting more often either over-treatment or under-treatment or too late treatment. Data driven decision making for improving quality and quantity of yield would most likely get best results in this multi-variable problem, where few of the variables are very hard to control if not impossible. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Sensors Council Speaker(s): Rajul, Anup, Ranendu, Yogesh, Hitesh Agenda: Detail schedule: 0930 to 1000 Inaugural session – Prof. Sanjay Srivastava 1000 to 1100 In-field sensors for precise irrigation – Dr. Rajul Patkar 1100 to 1200 Arid Communities and Technologies- Dr. Yogesh Jadeja 1200 to 1300 Challenges in automation – Mr Anup Shah 1300 to 1400 Lunch 1400 to 1500 Nanomaterials for Agri-sensors – Dr. Hitesh Borkar 1500 to 1600 Heavy metal detection using Image methods – Dr. Ranendu Ghosh 1600 to 1700 Product and prototype Demonstration 1700 to 1715 Valedictory Session DA-IICT, Near Indroda Circle, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, 382007