IoT and AI in Agriculture

Chapter 1. IoT x AI: Introducing Agricultural Innovation for Global Food Production.- Chapter 2. Transforming Controlled Environment Plant Production toward Circular Bioeconomy Systems.- Chapter 3. Artificial Lighting Systems for Plant Growth and Development in Indoor Farming.- Chapter 4. An IoT-based Precision Irrigation System to Optimize Plant Water Requirements for Indoor and Outdoor Farming Systems.- Chapter 5. Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things: Application in Urban Water Management.- Chapter 6.Purification of Agricultural Polluted Water Using Solar Distillation and Hot Water Producing with Continuous Monitoring Based on IoT.- Chapter 7. Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) for Oil Palm Soil Monitoring.- Chapter 8. Application of Smart Machine Vision in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishery, and Animal Husbandry.- Chapter 9. Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture: Commitment to Establish Society 5.0 .- Chapter 10. Potentials of Deep Learning Frameworks for Tree Trunk Detection in Orchard to Enable Autonomous Navigation System.- Chapter 11. Real Time Pear Fruit Detection and Counting Using YOLOv4 Models and Deep SORT.- Chapter 12. Pear Recognition in an Orchard from 3D Stereo Camera Datasets to Develop an Autonomous Mechanism Compared with Deep Learning Algorithms.- Chapter 13. Thermal Imaging and Deep Learning Object Detection Algorithms for Early Embryo Detection - A Methodology Development Addressed to Quail Precision Hatching.- Chapter 14. Intelligent Sensing and Robotic Picking of Kiwifruit in Orchard.- Chapter 15. Low-cost Automatic Machinery Development to Increase Timeliness and Efficiency of Operation for Small Scale Farmers to Achieve SDGs.- Chapter 16. Vision-based Leader Vehicle Trajectory Tracking for Multiple Agricultural Vehicles.- Chapter 17. Autonomous Robots in Orchard Management: Present status and future trends.- Chapter 18. Comparing Soil Moisture Retrieval from Water Cloud Model and Neural Network Using PALSAR-2 for

Tofael Ahamed is an Associate Professor, at the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, the University of Tsukuba, which is one of the leading universities in Japan. Dr. Ahamed performs research in the field of precision agriculture technology, agricultural robotics, and decision support systems. He focuses on enabling smart applicationsusing the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture, where crop production varies spatially and temporally within the field boundaries depending on the soil and environmental conditions. Dr. Ahamed is also member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery, Food Engineers, Japanese Society of Agricultural Information, and Japan Section of Regional Science Association. He is also serving as one of the Associate Editors for Computer and Electronics in Agriculture, Agricultural Information Research, Editorial Member for Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Author and Editor of serval books and Guest Editor of special issues for Remote Sensing.