Organizers
- International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA)
- University of Barcelona (UB)
Date: July 19-20, 2022
Venue: Faculty of Biology, UB, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Agenda
Monday 18 July 2022
Arrival to Barcelona
Tuesday 19 July 2022
08:00 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 10:00 Opening ceremony
- Welcome speeches: Dr. tarifa Al Zaabi, Acting Director General and Deputy Director from ICBA and Vice-president for Research, University of Barcelona and Agrotecnio Director
- Presentation on ICBA in promoting food security, Dr. Luis Augusto Bacerra
- Presentation on UB work, Prof. José Luis Araus, UB
- Introduction of the project “Developing user-friendly application for plant disorders detection for smallholder farmers” and ICBA achievement in the use of AI in agriculture, Dr. Henda Mahmoudi, ICBA
- Group photo
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30 Session1: AI in agriculture: potentialities and limitations
Keynote speech: Prof. Jose Berni, Sustainable Agriculture Institute, CSIC, Cordoba, Spain
Prof. Shawn. C. Kefauver, Universitat de Barcelona
Dr. RK Singh, High throughput (HTP) phenotyping: a potential decision tool for selection from large populations
Q&A
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 16:00 Session 2: Technical setup: AI toolsets, input data resources and algorithm categories, and data fusion
Keynote speech: Prof. Fred van Eeuwijk, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands:
Dr. Zied Hammami: Precise agriculture technology: sensing technologies to improve the natural resource use under the marginal environment
Dr. Thomas Vatter, Universitat de Barcelona:
Q&A
16:00 – 18:00 Site seeing excursion in Barcelona
Wednesday 20 July 2022
08:30 – 10:00 Session 3: Input data and AI application domains: examples
Dr. Llorenç Cabrera-Bosquet, LEPSE, UMR INRA-SUPAGRO, Institut de Biologie Intégrative des Plantes, Montpellier, France
Proximal sensing: Apps
Dr. Alexis Comar, Hiphen, Avignon, France
Proximal remote sensing: precision agriculture – breeding
Dr. Adrian Gracia-Romero, Sustainable Field Crops Program, IRTA., Lleida
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30 Session 3: Input data and AI application domains: examples, Cont…
Remote sensing: precision agriculture, agrosystems management
Prof. Alexandre Escolà, AgroICT & Precision Agriculture, Agrotecnio, Lleida, Spain
Hybrid approaches: coupling different data resources and crop modelling
Dr. Joaquim Bellvert Rios, FuitCenter, IRTA., Lleida, Spain : Special applications: 3D reconstructions
Sumitha Thushar, ICBA: Implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for sustainable Agriculture
Q&A
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 16:00 Session 4: AI in agriculture: future scenarios
Keynote speech: Prof. José Crossa, CIMMYT, Mexico:
Ghazi Al Jabri: Highlights on the capacity development of the project in Egypt, Tunisia and the UAE)
16:00 – 17:00 Closing ceremony
- Recommendations
- Closing remarks