Sustainability in agriculture is the primary need of the country, especially for farmers in the society. Sustainable agriculture depends on, a. the quality and quantity of irrigational water used, b. Status of soil in the Land and c. the dimatic conditions of the environment. In most of the locations and for particularly in coastal regions such a ideal conditions could not be possible. Developi...

Technology has produced another alternative: the use of interactive video networks (Whisler, 1988). Rural schools interact with other schools via interactive video networks--a type of distance learning. Distance learning is characterized by the use of technology to link instructors and learners who are physically apart from one another (Hughes, 1988). McClelland (1987) reported that young peopl...

This experiment was conducted at Namik Kemal University, Agriculture Faculty and Department of Horticulture in Turkey and Actinidia deliciosa cv. Hayward was used for this aim. In this study, Kiwifruits were irradiated with different doses of UV-C treatment (50, 75 and 100 cm distance for 5, 10 and 15 min). Later, they were put in polyethylene container with packed polyethylene bags and stored ...

Although wildlife biologists need reliable estimates of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) density to facilitate management, few studies have examined distance sampling as a density estimation technique for this species. We compared direct (i.e., spotlighting from road transects) and indirect (i.e., counting pellets on randomly placed transects) distance-sampling techniques for estimati...

In agriculture and water resource management an important meteorological quantity is the reference evapotranspiration ET0. It is usually estimated from other meteorological quantities measured at weather stations. To estimate ET0 at an arbitrary geographical position these quantities have to be interpolated. The Center for Spatial Technologies And Remote Sensing (CSTARS) at UC Davis uses the Da...

Irrigated urban agriculture (UA), which has helped alleviate poverty and increase food security in rapidly urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa, may inadvertently support malaria vectors. Previous studies have not identified a variable distance effect on malaria prevalence from UA. This study examines the relationships between self-reported malaria information for 3,164 women surveyed in Accra, Ghana,...

In the early 1900s, energy sources around the world were mostly agriculturally derived and industrial products were primarily made from plant matter. Early motor fuels also came from agriculture — Henry Ford used ethanol in his original engine and Rudolf Diesel's engine could run on peanut oil. By 1920, petroleum emerged as the dominant energy source for transportation fuels and industrial prod...

In this work, we present an algorithm to overcome the computational complexity of hyperspectral (HS) image data to detect multiple targets/endmembers accurately and efficiently by reducing time and complexity. In order to overcome the computational complexity standard deviation and chi square distance metric methods are considered. The number of endmembers is estimated by unbiased iterative cor...