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Author:

Nguyen, Hai

Title:

Data-driven assessment of climate change impacts on agriculture in the Southeast of the United States

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

climate change
maize
soybean
crop net irrigation requirement
crop yield
southeastern United States
agriculture
uncertainty

File:

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Committee Members:

Cibin Raj, Major Field Member
Erica Smithwick, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tom Richard, Major Field Member
Christine Costello, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Suat Irmak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Allen Thompson, Special Member

Author:

Yuan, Wenan

Title:

Development of a UAV-Based Multi-Dimensional Mapping Framework for Precise Frost Management in Apple Orchards

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

camera
CNN
image registration
LiDAR
object detection
point cloud
RGB
temperature
thermal
camera
CNN
image registration
LiDAR
object detection
point cloud
RGB
temperature
thermal

File:

Download Dissertation_Final-Wenan_Yuan.pdf

Committee Members:

Long He, Major Field Member
Daeun Choi, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Dimitrios Bolkas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Heinemann, Major Field Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Vezeau, Grace

Title:

Developing Nucleic Acid-Based Biosensor Platforms

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

synthetic biology
biosensors
RNA
riboswitch
CRISPR-Cas9
cell-free expression systems
biophysics
nucleic acid secondary structure

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeffrey Catchmark, Major Field Member
Howard Salis, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Outside Unit Member
Paul Heinemann, Program Head/Chair
Andrew Zydney, Outside Field Member

Author:

Zahid, Azlan

Title:

Development of a Robotic Manipulator for Pruning Apple Trees

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Agricultural robotics
apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.)
pruning end-effector
obstacle avoidance
path planning
robotic pruning
pruning manipulator

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Committee Members:

Long He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daeun Choi, Major Field Member
James Schupp, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Heinemann, Major Field Member
Paul Heinemann, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hirl, Katharine

Title:

Robust and Efficient Anaerobic Digestion of Lignocellulose

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

anaerobic digestion
switchgrass
bioenergy
robustness

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Committee Members:

Jay Regan, Co-Chair of Committee
Juliana Vasco-Correa, Major Field Member
Tom Richard, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Costas Maranas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Catchmark, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Herbstritt, Steph

Title:

Re-envisioning Agriculture as Sustainable Multifunctional Landscapes

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Perennial warm season grasses
Mixtures
Opportunity land
Perennial bioenergy crop
Field experiment
NDVI
Multifunctional agriculture

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Committee Members:

Herschel Elliott, Major Field Member
Tom Richard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Duncan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Armen Kemanian, Outside Field Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hussain, Magni Stentoft

Title:

Robotic Green Fruit Thinning for Apple Production

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Apples
Robotic Green Fruit Thinning
End-Effector
Fruit Removal Dynamics
Machine Vision
Deep Learning
Instance Segmentation
Orientation Estimation
3D Orientation Estimation
Fruit and Stem Pairing
Fruit Clustering
Collision-Free Path Planning
Path Sequencing
Agricultural Robotics
Crop Load Management

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Long He, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Lyons, Major Field Member
James Schupp, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Heinemann, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Saha, Arghajeet

Title:

Nutrient Management and Control Strategies in the Susquehanna River Basin Towards Meeting Chesapeake Bay TMDL Goals

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Manureshed
SWAT
Nutrient Management
Soil Taxonomy
Manure Timing

File:

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Committee Members:

Tameria Veith, Major Field Member
Cibin Raj, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Charlie White, Outside Field Member
Patrick Drohan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mu, Xinyang

Title:

Advancing Robotic Approaches to Precision Apple Crop Load Management in Blossom Thinning Stage

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Apple crop load management
Apple blossom thinning
Machine vision system
Machine learning
Deep learning
Image processing
Robot automation
Precision agriculture

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit Member
Long He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Schupp, Outside Field Member
Paul Heinemann, Major Field Member
Manoj Karkee, Special Member

Author:

Saha, Gourab

Title:

A Vision Towards Developing a Spatially And Temporally Robust Data-Driven Modeling Framework To Predict Continuous Stream Nitrate Concentration At Data-Scarce Locations

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

LSTM
stream nitrate modeling
deep learning
machine learning
water quality
c-Q relationship

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Long He, Major Field Member
Cibin Raj, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Outside Field Member
Jonathan Duncan, Outside Unit & Field Member