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Bespoke cultivation of seablite with digital agriculture and machine learning

Authors :
Thanapong Chaichana
Graham Reeve
Brett Drury
Yasinee Chakrabandhu
Sutee Wangtueai
Sarat Yoowattana
Supot Sookpotharom
Nathaphon Boonnam
Charles S. Brennan
Jirapond Muangprathub
Source :
Ecological Indicators, Vol 166, Iss , Pp 112559- (2024)
Publication Year :
2024
Publisher :
Elsevier, 2024.

Abstract

Climate change has driven agriculture to alter farming methods for food production. This paper presents a new concept for monitoring, acquisition, management, analysis, and synthesis of ecological data, which captures the environmental determinants and direct gradients suited to a particular requirement for specific plant cultivation and sustainable agriculture. The purpose of this study is to investigate a smart seablite cultivation system. A novel digital agricultural method was developed and applied to digitised seablite cultivation. Machine learning was used to predict the future growth conditions of plants (seablites). The study identified the illustrative maps of seablite origins, a conceptual seablite smart farming model, essential factors for growing seablite, a digital circuit for cultivating seablite, and digital data of seablite growth phases comprised the digital data. The findings indicate that: (1) An indicator of soil salinity is a quantity of sodium chloride extracted from a seablite sample indicating its origin of environmental determinants. (2) Saline soil, saline water, pH, moisture, temperature, and sunlight are essential factors for seablite development. These factors are dependent on climate change and were measured using a smart seablite cultivation system. (3) Digital circuits of seablite cultivation provide a better understanding of the relationship between the essential factors for seablite growth and seablite growth phases. (4) Deep neural networks outperformed vector machines, with 86% accuracy at predicting future growth of seablites. Therefore, this finding showed that the essential seablite development factors can be manipulated as key controllers for agriculture in response to climate change and agriculture can be planned. Basic digitisation of specific plants aids plant migration. Digital agriculture is an important practice for agroecosystems.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1470160X
Volume :
166
Issue :
112559-
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Ecological Indicators
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.14fdedda504a46d5a1a0394df65d0c35
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112559