Vegetation indices provide information for various precision-agriculture practices, by providing quantitative data about crop growth and health. To a concise up-to-date review of vegetation in precision agriculture, this study focused on the major with criterion their frequency scientific papers indexed Web Science Core Collection (WoSCC) since 2000. Based topic “precision agriculture” combined...

This paper proposed a new hybrid method, designated as PSOVPRS-index method, for partitioning and classifying continuous valued datasets based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, Variable Precision Rough Set (VPRS) theory and a modified form of the Huang-index function. In contrast to the Huang-based index method which simply assigns a constant number of clusters to each attribute a...

This article proposes a novel method for detecting forest fires, through the use of a new color index, called the Forest Fire Detection Index (FFDI), developed by the authors. The index is based on methods for vegetation classification and has been adapted to detect the tonalities of flames and smoke; the latter could be included adaptively into the Regions of Interest (RoIs) with the help of a...

In this study, four different type seeders were evaluated for seed spacing, depth uniformity, and plant emergence at three forward speeds (3.6, 5.4, and 7.2 km h-1). The planter types were: no-till planter, precision vacuum planter, universal planter, and semi-automatic potato planter. The sowing uniformity of the horizontal distribution of seeds was described by using the multiple index, the m...

continuous soil quality evaluation in is necessary agricultural regions to sustainable soil management and profitable agricultural production. the objectives of this study were comprised of an evaluation of soil quality utilizing integrated quality index (iqi) along with its spatial distribution in qazvin province. iqi was calculated and its spatial changes analyzed using different interpolatio...

We study the problem of keeping in main memory an index for a large PAT array stored in secondary storage. This index is used to minimize the number of accesses to secondary memory, performing the main part of the search in main memory. However, we have a maximum allowed size for this index, and it is not clear which is the optimum between keeping many short keys or few long keys. We rst derive...

Compression molding of glass optics is gradually becoming a viable fabrication technique for high precision optical lenses. However, refractive index variation was observed in compression molded glass lenses, which would contribute to image quality degradation. In this research, annealing experiments were applied to control the refractive index variation in molded glass lenses. The refractive i...

This paper describes our approach to the Question Answering Word Sense Disambiguation task. This task consists in carrying out Question Answering over a disambiguated document collection. In our approach, disambiguated documents are used to improve the accuracy of the retrieval phase. In order to do this, we added a WordNet-expanded index to the document collection. The expanded index contains ...