Skoltech
Skoltech CDISE
Introduction
to Digital Agro
EDSEL
Skoltech
CDISE
Maria Pukalchik
Lead instructor
Intro to
Digital
Agro
Maria Pukalchik
Lead instructor
Teaching Assistant
Dmitriy Shadrin
Dmitriy Shadrin
About our classes
The agriculture and food sector is facing multiple challenges. With the global population projected to grow from 7.6 billion in 2018 to over 9.6 billion in 2050 there will be a significant increase in the demand for food.At the same time, the availability of natural resources such as fresh water and productive arable land is becoming increasingly constrained. This will require an urgent transformation of the current agrifood system.Digital innovations and technologies may be part of the solution. The so-called 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'(Industry 4.0) is seeing several sectors rapidly transformed by 'disruptive' digital technologies such as Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision.
This course covered several milestone problems for future agriculture, like:
- data science for detection of harmful plants, and/or yield prediction;
- plants grow prediction and plant recognition for greenhouses.

Course available for Ms and PhD students
Our classes (Term 4, 2020)
1
01. Introduction to Digital agriculture

General overview about problems, scopes and issues for digital agro in the World. We also present the key digital technologies with market sizes and start-up's maps.

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Lection
2
02. Data and basic statistics in agriculture and environmental sciences
  • What is the agriculture?
  • What kind of data usually supports agricultural studies, examples of R&D projects.
  • Common objectives and tasks of the agriculture: today and the future.
  • Pre-processing of data, description and tools for primary analysis remember the basics.

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3
03. ML and AI as
workhorses in the digital agriculture
  • AI, ML, and DL. What are this terms mean?
  • The map of the machine learning world.
  • Application of ML in Agriculture
  • The learning process.
  • State of the Art Application of ML in Agriculture and Environmental cases

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4
04. Crop yield simulation models and sensitivity indexes
  • Climate change
  • Basics of Agricultural System Models:

-Statistical models

-Process-based models

-Data-driving approach


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5
05. Plant phenotyping
  • Crop Phenotyping or Crop Phenomics
  • Defining, limiting and reducing factors for crop
  • What we could measure?
  • Different spectra used in crop phenotyping
  • The modelling process that converts raw data into strongly model

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6
06. ML for plant growth dynamics prediction
3 ways of modeling:
  • Bottom-up modeling
  • Mixed: bottom up and data-driven modeling
  • Data-driven modeling

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7
07.Computer vision for plants

General overview and practical cases

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