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IIPA member faculty and graduate students attended the International Conference on Precision Agriculture which took place in Manhattan, Kansas from July 21 – 24, 2024.

Four students received outstanding graduate student awards and two students placed 1^st and 2^nd in the poster competition.

Pictured (l-r): George Vellidis, Guoyu Lu, Sara Maktabi, Luan Oliveira, Lorena Lacerda, Leo Bastos, Binita Ghimire, Ramaraja Ramasamy, Cole Byers, Marcelo Barbosa, Sandesh Shrestha, Ravi Meena (partially hidden), Anish Bhattarai, Amrinder Jakhar, Emily Bedwell, Thiago Barboza, and Ramana Pidaparti

Four Institute for Integrative Precision Agriculture graduate students were named “Outstanding Graduate Students” at the 16th International Conference on Precision Agriculture held in Manhattan, Kansas.

Congratulations to Binita Ghimire (advised by Dr. Lorena Lacerda, UGA-Athens), Emily Bedwell (advised by Dr. George Vellidis, UGA-Tifton), Cole Byers (advised by Dr. Simerjeet Virk, UGA-Tifton), and Amrinder Jakhar (advised by Dr. Leo Bastos, UGA-Athens) for this achievement!

The 16th International Conference on Precision Agriculture highlights significant research and its applications in precision agriculture and showcase emerging technologies and information management for agriculture.

Emily Bedwell, a graduate student advised by Dr. George Vellidis, has been selected to participate in the International Soil Moisture School in Budapest, Hungary on July 14-17, 2024.

The school is intended for Ph.D. scholars, postdocs, and early career scientists interested in learning how to collect and utilize soil moisture resources from in situ and microwave satellite sensors.

Bedwell is one of only three graduate students in the United States awarded a Fulbright scholarship that will cover all her travel expenses.

Congratulations on this honor, Emily!

The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) and Grand Farm, a leading innovator in agricultural technology, announced a collaboration to create a robust regional agricultural innovation ecosystem.

With the global population expected to increase from 8 billion to 9.7 billion by 2050, agricultural researchers and producers are faced with the looming challenges of how to feed a growing world.

A key tool in the effort to propel Georgia’s No. 1 industry into the future is the expanding field of integrative precision agriculture (IPA).

At the University of Georgia Tifton campus, the new Tifton Integrative Precision Agriculture Research, Education and Demonstration Laboratory will be the first of its kind in the Southeast to provide state-of-the-art collaborative spaces, top-of-the-line autonomous equipment and job training for the next generation of agricultural leaders.

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Speaker:  Ali Moghimi

Title:  “Drone-based Aerial Imagery: Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Agriculture”

Date:  Thursday, April 25th

Time:   12:00 – 12:30 PM

Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 935 4907 5811; Passcode: 611893)

Date:  Friday, March 29th
Time:   12:00 – 12:30 PM 

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Speaker:  Beshoy Morkos

Title:  “Bringing Industry 4.0 to Agriculture – A study of Pecan Cracking and Shelling Processes“

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2024 IIPA Seed Grants:

Title:  SSIF:  A Deep Generative Model for Remote Sensing Image Spatial-Spectral Super-Resolution for Precision Agriculture
PI:  Gengchen Mai, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Athens Campus

Title: Harnessing Deep Learning Algorithms for Ultrasound Image Analysis to Support Reproductive Management Decisions in Cattle
PI:  Todd Callaway, Associate Professor, Department of Animal & Dairy Science, Athens Campus

Title:  EggPicker: A mobile robotic system for identifying, localizing, and collecting floor eggs in cage-free hen housing environments
PI:  Guoming Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Poultry Science, Athens Campus

Title:  Enhancing Efficacy of Ornamental Crop Production: Application of Advanced Technologies for Automating Nursery Production Operations to Improve Labor Use Efficiency
PI:  Md Sultan Mahmud, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Athens Campus

Title:  PRECISIONDETECT (PD): AI-Enhanced Hyperspectral Imaging for Early Chicken Egg Fertility Detection
PI:  Christopher Kucha, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology, Athens Campus

Title:  Revolutionizing Agriculture with Data-Driven Solutions:  Exploring Microbiome Function and Modulation in Animals through Machine Learning
PI:  Aditya Mishra, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Athens Campus

Title:  Prediction model for breeding peanuts with desired roasted flavor
PI:  Joonhyuk Suh, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science & Technology, Athens Campus

Date:  Tuesday, January 30th

Time:   12:00 – 12:30 PM

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Speaker:  

Mehmet Kurum

Title:  “Unveiling the Potential of GNSS Transmissometry (GNSS-T) for Remote Sensing of Forest Canopy Water Content: Challenges and Pathways to ‘Radio Realistic’ Forest Scene Generation”