Tag: Artificial Intelligence

AI may help UF researchers identify crop-destroying nematodes

by Brad Buck
April 14, 2021

Parasitic nematodes cause $125 billion in agricultural damage around the world each year, but University of Florida scientists hope to alleviate some of that destruction. To do so, UF researchers will use artificial intelligence (AI) to ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Pests & Disease
Tags: #aiatuf, Algorithm, Alina Zare, Artificial Intelligence, Billy Crow, Biological Control, Citrus Research And Education Center, Crops, Damage, Entomology And Nematology, Identification, Marchine-learning, Nematicides, Nematode Assay Lab, Nematodes, Peter DiGennaro

UF scientists use AI technology to breed better-tasting strawberries

by Brad Buck
April 7, 2021

A tastier strawberry may come from a computer. New University of Florida research shows artificial intelligence can help scientists breed more flavor into the fruit. Consumer panels are the tried-and-true method for UF researchers to gauge ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture
Tags: #aiatuf, Algorithm, Aroma, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Breeding, Computer, Flavor, Food Science And Human Nutrition, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, Horticultural Sciences, Sensation, Strawberries, Taste Panels, UF Sensory Lab, Vance Whitaker, Volatiles

UF researchers use AI datasets to track feral pigs, minimize disease risk

by Brad Buck
March 25, 2021

Feral pigs cost the agriculture industry at least $1.5 billion in damage, disease and control costs around the United States annually, running rampant on large swaths of grazing lands. The swine root in soil and eat most everything in sight. Farmers ... READ MORE

Category: Livestock, Pests & Disease
Tags: #aiatuf, Artificial Intelligence, Cameras, Cattle, College Of Agricultural And Life Sciences, Datasets, Diseases, Feral Pigs, Hogs, Infection, Movements, Photos, Population, Ranch, Range Cattle Research And Education Center, Samantha Wisely, Swine, Wildlife Ecology And Conservation

Florida-grown coffee? How UF scientists are using AI to serve up the possibilities

by Samantha Murray
March 8, 2021

Most of the world’s coffee is grown in tropical regions. However, a changing climate could allow coffee to grow farther north — for example, in Florida. To understand how that might work, scientists with the University of Florida are already ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: #aiatuf, Agronomy, Artificial Intelligence, Coffee, News, Plant Science Research And Education Unit, Soil And Water Sciences

UF researchers to use AI to predict how hurricanes spread invasive plants

by Brad Buck
March 8, 2021

Scientists project hurricane intensity and frequency will increase with climate change. That leads researchers to want to better predict how storms will disperse and establish nonnative plant invaders. Knowing where invasive plants spread ... READ MORE

Category: Invasive Species
Tags: #aiatuf, Agronomy, Artificial Intelligence, Dispersal, Ecology, Herbert Wertheim College Of Engineering, Hurricanes, Hyperspectral Imaging, Invasive Plants, Luke Flory, Nonnative Plants, Seeds, Spores

UF scientists look to space to help ranchers on Earth

by Brad Buck
February 18, 2021

Houston, we’re fixing a problem. [inlinetweet prefix="" tweeter="" suffix=""]A University of Florida scientist is leading a project to develop a tool -- based on data from satellites -- that ranchers can use to improve their pasture and grazing ... READ MORE

Category: Farm Management
Tags: Agronomy, Artificial Intelligence, Cattle, Chris Wilson, Dataset, Ecosystems, Forage, Management, NASA, North Florida Research And Education Center, Orbit, Pasture Biomass, Ranch, Satellite

UF/IFAS boosts AI research to help solve perplexing issues

by Brad Buck
February 11, 2021

[inlinetweet prefix="" tweeter="" suffix=""]As UF/IFAS joins a university-wide push to increase artificial intelligence research, its faculty will help solve major problems.[/inlinetweet] Among them: ensuring crops taste good and resist diseases ... READ MORE

Category: SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agronomy, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Diane Rowland, Entomology And Nematology, Gulf Coast Research And Education Center, HiPerGator, Horticultural Sciences, J. Scott Angle, Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Soil And Water Sciences, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, Vance Whitaker, Yiannis Ampatzidis

UF/IFAS scientists to develop methodology for measuring crop evapotranspiration using sensors, drones, artificial intelligence

by Lourdes Mederos
September 30, 2020

HOMESTEAD, Fla. – The sight of sprinklers running on a rainy day is not uncommon in Florida. The same goes for seeing landscapes scorched by the sun during one of Florida’s sweltering days when irrigation schedules were left unmodified ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS
Tags: #AI, Artificial Intelligence, Haimanote Bayabil, IFAS NEWS, TREC, Tropical Research And Education Center, UF IFAS News

New AI technology ‘Agroview’ named UF Invention of the Year

by Brad Buck
September 23, 2020

Yiannis Ampatzidis and his research team combined their collective minds to find the artificial intelligence technology to best help farmers save money and better care for their crops. Out of that process, they invented a system known as ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Agricultural And Biological Engineering, Agroview, Artificial Intelligence, Drone Technology, Plants, Southwest Florida Research And Education Center, UF Innovate | Tech Licensing, UF Invention Of The Year, Yiannis Ampatzidis, Yield

University of Florida partners on $26M grant to produce more crops with less water and energy

by Samantha Murray
August 21, 2020

Above: The University of Florida Phenogator, an example of the technology that will be utilized at UF as part of the IoT4Ag Center. The Phenogator is a multi-purpose vehicle that uses sensors in combination with highly accurate GPS technology ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management, NATURAL RESOURCES, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Research, Water
Tags: #AI, Agronomy, Artificial Intelligence, Diane Rowland, Ian Small, J. Scott Angle, News, North Florida Research And Education Center, Scott Angle

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