A web-based GIS platform supporting innovative irrigation management techniques at farm-scale for the Mediterranean island of Crete

Kourgialas, Nektarios N.; Hliaoutakis, Angelos; Argyriou, Athanasios V.; Morianou, Giasemi; Voulgarakis, Apostolos E; Kokinou, Eleni; Daliakopoulos, Ioannis N.; Kalderis, Dimitrios; Tzerakis, Constantinos; Psarras, Georgios; Papadopoulos, Nikos; Manios, Thrassyvoulos; Vafidis, A.; Soupios, Pantelis

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156918

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“…Regarding the first point, relating to reductions in water requirements, these may result from the application of agronomic techniques, the choice of rootstock-graft combination as well as mass selections in the field. With regard to the second point, the current trend is toward micro-aspersion methods (Kourgialas et al, 2022) together with the application of water deficit techniques, which in some cases save water and improve crop quality. The trend is to develop true precision irrigation, which will allow the plant to always be guaranteed the amount of water it needs (Adeyemi et al, 2017;Velasco-Muñoz et al, 2019;Caruso et al, 2021) based on a system of information that will come to us from farm big data, collected by a network of sensors and weather sheds capable of managing irrigation through practices that connect to artificial intelligence as the new challenge of agriculture 4.0.…”

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“…The Mediterranean tree crop production sector is experiencing difficult years that have led in some cases to a sharp downsizing of cultivated areas. Phytosanitary and climatic emergencies, product remunerations that are often lower than production costs, structural and bureaucratic problems have put many fruit farms to the test (Sgroi et al, 2015;Kourgialas et al, 2022). The challenge for the future is certainly to maintain high yields and fruit quality while using fewer resources.…”

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“…Technology, innovation and Agriculture 4.0 are the solution today, as they can reduce water consumption in agriculture by up to 20 per cent compared to traditional irrigation systems (Adeyemi et al, 2017;Velasco-Muñoz et al, 2019;Kourgialas et al, 2022). In the fruit-growing world, the most economical systems are drip systems: micro-sprinklers (Canaj et al, 2021), underground drip sprinklers and mini-sprinklers (Loures et al, 2020;Rouzaneh et al, 2021).…”

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IntroductionThe combination of knowledge, personal skills and company resources influences, all things being equal, such as the availability of new technologies, market conditions and other factors external to the company, farmers in their innovation choices. This study is an attempt to understand which psychological constructs influence the decision-making process of farmers specialized in typical Mediterranean crops with regard to innovation. Previous studies on the adoption of agricultural innovations have often considered socio economic characteristics and ignored the underlying motivational factors that influence the behavioral intention of farmers.MethodsThis study adopted three socio-psychological constructs, Attitude (ATT), Subjective Norm (SN), and Perceived Behavioral Control (PBC), derived from the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and proposed three new constructs, Perceived Innovations Characteristics (PIC), Benefits (B), and Transferability (T), thus using an Extended Model of the Theory of Planned Behavior.ResultsThe outcome of the multiple regression revealed that farmers' intention (I) to adopt sustainable irrigation innovations is positively influenced by attitude (ATT), subjective norm (SN), and perceived innovation characteristics (PIC). This last construct had mediating effects on the indirect relationships between PBC, benefits (B), transferability (T), and intention (I).DiscussionThe results provide numerous insights, useful both for outlining the demand for innovation and for calibrating future policies aimed at the primary sector, especially on the sustainable management of irrigation resources. In particular, the analyses carried out highlight the importance of factors external to the company as key levers in shaping the demand for innovations.

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“…All these "observables" can be correlated to macro parameters, which in turn allow to study the progress of an epidemic and its impact on the economy at different scales. Although remote sensing methodologies have beenand are normallyemployed to monitor local and global critical situations (from natural disasters 1 to environmental impact), their application to the monitoring of the economy has been limited to the agricultural 3 sector. Moreover, the analysis method has been mostly limited to the visual inspection of satellite images 2 .…”

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EYE-Sense: empowering remote sensing with machine learning for socio-economic analysis

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Pacios,

Papoutsakis

et al. 2023

Ninth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2023)

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EYE-Sense is a Web-GIS platform which allows for easy access to valuable socio-economic insights from Earth Observation (EO) data by offering a code-less approach. The platform enables users to access various EO parameters, such as atmospheric and water quality indexes, and night-light activity. Moreover, the platform's pre-trained computer vision models (Faster-RCNN, Mask-RCNN, and YOLO) empower users to detect objects such as, e.g., airplanes, ships, containers, and beach umbrellas, to address specific user-based tasks. To provide cost-efficiency, scalability, flexibility, and easy maintenance, EYE-sense adopts a serverless architecture, leading to up to 50.4% processing cost reduction when compared to traditional server-based solutions. By bridging the gap between data gathering and processing, EYE-Sense extends the reach of Earth observation data to a broader audience.

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“…The chemical health of the soil influences soil-plant relationships (Adil et al, 2023;Adil et al, 2022), quality of water available, buffering capacity, accessibility of plants and soil organisms to water and nutrient content, contaminant movements, and a few physical properties of soil, for example, crust formation. Soil quality analyses have been offered as a management tool or support to assist gardeners and farmers in selecting specific management options as well as a measure of sustainability (Kourgialas et al, 2022;Gondal et al, 2021b;Gondal and Tayyiba, 2022;Jiang et al, 2022). They also advocated those approaches for assessing and defining soil quality be suited to specific goals, including sustainable agriculture, environmental quality, and the health of humans and animals.…”

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Conditioning of desert sandy soil and investigation of the ameliorative effects of poultry manure and bentonite treatment rate on plant growth

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Soil is the base of any ecosystem since it conserves nutrients and water for plant roots including agriculture and plantations. In dry and semi-arid places across the world, including the UAE, sandy soils are common. Their fertility is extremely low, and production is hampered by a number of agronomic challenges. Soil conditioner sources like bentonite and chicken manure might be used to improve the poor sandy soil attributes and hence boost soil productivity. From November 2019 to March 2020, an experiment was conducted to investigate the growth rates of Bougainvillea following bentonite and chicken manure amendments to sandy soil taken from Lehbab, Dubai. Bougainvillea was evaluated for its plant height (cm), max length of primary branch (cm), the number of leaves per plant, number of secondary branches, shoot weight (g), root length (cm), root weight (g), root/shoot ratio, chlorophyll contents, and chlorophyll a* and b*. In this experiment, a complete randomized design (CRD) with five treatments was used (10 replications per treatment). According to the findings, bentonite and chicken manure additions considerably influence the productive properties of sandy soil, as indicated by Bougainvillea growth. Additionally, the research suggests that Bougainvillea may be efficiently planted with 10% bentonite and 15% chicken manure applied to sandy soil, resulting in the healthiest plants compared to other amendments.

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A web-based GIS platform supporting innovative irrigation management techniques at farm-scale for the Mediterranean island of Crete

Cited by 16 publications

References 45 publications

Exploring innovation adoption behavior for sustainable development of Mediterranean tree crops

Exploring innovation adoption behavior for sustainable development of Mediterranean tree crops

EYE-Sense: empowering remote sensing with machine learning for socio-economic analysis

Conditioning of desert sandy soil and investigation of the ameliorative effects of poultry manure and bentonite treatment rate on plant growth

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