OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Precision Agriculture is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Hyperspectral sensing and mapping of soil carbon content for amending within-field heterogeneity of soil fertility and enhancing soil carbon sequestration	223
On-farm experimentation: assessing the effect of combine ground speed on grain yield monitor data estimates	222
Integrating computer vision and precision sprayers for targeted green fruit chemical thinning	124
Near real-time yield forecasting of winter wheat using Sentinel-2 imagery at the early stages	114
Soil2Cover: Coverage path planning minimizing soil compaction for sustainable agriculture	110
Using UAV-based multispectral remote sensing imagery combined with DRIS method to diagnose leaf nitrogen nutrition status in a fertigated apple orchard	109
Clustered tomato detection and picking point location using machine learning-aided image analysis for automatic robotic harvesting	80
Smart UAV-assisted blueberry maturity monitoring with Mamba-based computer vision	77
Red-green-blue to normalized difference vegetation index translation: a robust and inexpensive approach for vegetation monitoring using machine vision and generative adversarial networks	76
Recognition of mango and location of picking point on stem based on a multi-task CNN model named YOLOMS	69
A novel end-effector for a fruit and vegetable harvesting robot: mechanism and field experiment	67
Recognition of sunflower growth period based on deep learning from UAV remote sensing images	67
A novel approach for analysing environmental sustainability aspects of combine harvesters through telematics data. Part II: an IT tool for comparative analysis	65
A coupled atomization-spray drift model as online support tool for boom spray applications	61
Pedology-based management class establishment: a study case in Brazilian coffee crops	60
Spectral characteristics of winter wheat varieties depending on the development degree of Pyrenophora tritici-repentis	59
Quantifying corn LAI using machine learning and UAV multispectral imaging	52
Use of remote sensing-derived fPAR data in a grapevine simulation model for estimating vine biomass accumulation and yield variability at sub-field level	47
Maize tassel number and tasseling stage monitoring based on near-ground and UAV RGB images by improved YoloV8	47
Combining 2D image and point cloud deep learning to predict wheat above ground biomass	46
Joint plant-spraypoint detector with ConvNeXt modules and HistMatch normalization	46
Improved estimation of herbaceous crop aboveground biomass using UAV-derived crop height combined with vegetation indices	44
Correction to: Chickpea leaf water potential estimation from ground and VENµS satellite	43
UAV-based canopy monitoring: calibration of a multispectral sensor for green area index and nitrogen uptake across several crops	43
Impact of soil electrical conductivity-based site-specific seeding and uniform rate seeding methods on winter wheat yield parameters and economic benefits	42

A novel approach for analysing environmental sustainability aspects of combine harvester through telematics data. Part I: evaluation and analysis of field tests	42
The economic performances of different trial designs in on-farm precision experimentation: a Monte Carlo evaluation	41
Quantification of self-propelled sprayers turn compensation feature utilization and advantages during on-farm applications	41
Quantifying real-time opening disk load during planting operations to assess compaction and potential for planter control	40
Data fusion approach for predicting high resolution estimates of crop evapotranspiration	39
Evaluation of the PROMET model for yield estimation and N fertilization in on-farm research	39
Unmanned aerial system plant protection products spraying performance evaluation on a vineyard	38
Repeatability of commercially available visible and near infrared proximal soil sensors	38
Optimal treatment placement for on-farm experiments: pseudo-Bayesian optimal designs with a linear response plateau model	38
Hyperspectral assessment of bacterial blight disease in red kidney beans by feature selection and machine learning algorithms	36
Farewells	35
An applied framework to unlocking multi-angular UAV reflectance data: a case study for classification of plant parameters in maize (Zea mays)	33
Incorporation of mechanistic model outputs as features for data-driven models for yield prediction: a case study on wheat and chickpea	32
Impact of soil types on sugarcane development monitored over time by remote sensing	32
Utility of visible and near-infrared spectroscopy to predict base neutralizing capacity and lime requirement of quaternary soils	32
An ultra-lightweight efficient network for image-based plant disease and pest infection detection	32
Improving harvester yield maps postprocessing leveraging remote sensing data in rice crop	31
Spatial variability of soil properties, nitrogen balance and nitrate leaching using digital methods on heterogeneous arable fields in southern Germany	30
Delineation of management zones dealing with low sampling and outliers	30
Data-driven agriculture and sustainable farming: friends or foes?	28
Adding random points to sampling grids to improve the quality of soil fertility maps	27
Opportunities for variable rate application of nitrogen under spatial water variations in rainfed wheat systems—an economic analysis	26
Model-averaging as an accurate approach for ex-post economic optimum nitrogen rate estimation	26
Generalized data-driven optimal path planning framework for uniform coverage missions using crop spraying UAVs	26
Field-scale digital mapping of top- and subsoil Chernozem properties	25
What drives the adoption of digital technology? An empirical assessment of multiple technology adoption by soybean farmers in São Paulo, Brazil	25
Planning and optimization of nitrogen fertilization in corn based on multispectral images and leaf nitrogen content using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)	25
Developing a segment anything model-based framework for automated plot extraction	25
Integration of multi-temporal sentinel-1 and sentinel-2 data for paddy rice crop height estimation and uncertainty assessment using quantile regression forests	25
Prediction of cotton yield based on soil texture, weather conditions and UAV imagery using deep learning	24
Monitoring the interannual dynamic changes of soil organic matter using long-term Landsat images	24
Statistical diagnostics for sensing spatial residue cover	24
Canopy height and biomass prediction in Mombaça guinea grass pastures using satellite imagery and machine learning	24
Correction to: a novel method for optimizing regional-scale management zones based on a sustainable environmental index	24
Spatial and dynamic distribution of Chrysoperla spp. and Leucoptera coffeella populations in coffee Coffea arabica L	23
Fully automated proximal hyperspectral imaging system for high-resolution and high-quality in vivo soybean phenotyping	23
Devising optimized maize nitrogen stress indices in complex field conditions from UAV hyperspectral imagery	23
Multispectral images for monitoring the physiological parameters of coffee plants under different treatments against nematodes	23
Evolution of precision agricultural technologies: a patent network analysis	23
Thermal imaging for identification of malfunctions in subsurface drip irrigation in orchards	23
Enhancing visual autonomous navigation in row-based crops with effective synthetic data generation	23
Precision land leveling for sustainable rice production: case studies in Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, and India	22
Sugarcane yield estimation in Thailand at multiple scales using the integration of UAV and Sentinel-2 imagery	21
Strategies for monitoring within-field soybean yield using Sentinel-2 Vis-NIR-SWIR spectral bands and machine learning regression methods	21
Development and field performance evaluation of hole-fertilizing planter and dynamic alignment control system for precision planting of corn	21
Adaptively spatial feature fusion network: an improved UAV detection method for wheat scab	21
Deep mango cultivars: cultivar detection by classification method with maximum misidentification rate estimation	20
A new method to monitor the brown planthopper population size and its damage using canopy temperature of rice plants	20
On-Farm variable rate nitrogen management in irrigated potato	20
Adoption of digital technologies in agriculture—an inventory in a european small-scale farming region	20

Spatial and temporal correlation between soil and rice relative yield in small-scale paddy fields and management zones	20
Field validation of NDVI to identify crop phenological signatures	20
From pen and paper to digital precision: a comprehensive review of on-farm recordkeeping	20
Machine learning approach for satellite-based subfield canola yield prediction using floral phenology metrics and soil parameters	20
Estimating maize seedling number with UAV RGB images and advanced image processing methods	19
Quantification of rice spikelet rot disease severity at organ scale with proximal imaging spectroscopy	19
Olive yield monitor for small farms based on an instrumented trailer to collect big bags from the ground	19
UAV-based multispectral and thermal indexes for estimating crop water status and yield on super-high-density olive orchards under deficit irrigation conditions	19
Efficient tomato harvesting robot based on image processing and deep learning	18
Enhancing model performance through date fusion in multispectral and RGB image-based field phenotyping of wheat grain yield	18
Small-target weed-detection model based on YOLO-V4 with improved backbone and neck structures	18
Effects of pre-emergence herbicide on targeted post-emergence herbicide application in plasticulture production	18
End-to-end 3D CNN for plot-scale soybean yield prediction using multitemporal UAV-based RGB images	18
Improving soil property maps for precision agriculture in the presence of outliers using covariates	18
Remote estimation of leaf water concentration in winter wheat under different nitrogen treatments and plant growth stages	18
Land surface phenology for the characterization of Mediterranean permanent grasslands	17
Enhancing the capacity of southeastern extension change agents to facilitate the dissemination of precision farming: a Delphi approach	17
Potential of handheld low-cost multispectral sensors for decision support in viticulture	17
Predicting within-field grain protein content at scale using agronomic and remote sensing variables, and machine learning	17
The estimation of wheat tiller number based on UAV images and gradual change features (GCFs)	16
Transfer learning for plant disease detection model based on low-altitude UAV remote sensing	16
An assessment of multi-view spectral information from UAV-based color-infrared images for improved estimation of nitrogen nutrition status in winter wheat	16
A computer vision system for apple fruit sizing by means of low-cost depth camera and neural network application	16
On-farm cereal rye biomass estimation using machine learning on images from an unmanned aerial system	16
Remote sensing inversion of soil organic matter by using the subregion method at the field scale	16
Yield sensing technologies for perennial and annual horticultural crops: a review	16
Within-season vegetation indices and yield stability as a predictor of spatial patterns of Maize (Zea mays L) yields	16
Comparing how accurately four different proximal spectrometers can estimate pasture nutritive characteristics: effects of spectral range and data type	16
A novel method for optimizing regional-scale management zones based on a sustainable environmental index	16
Spatiotemporal normalized ratio methodology to evaluate the impact of field-scale variable rate application	16
Evaluation of different crop model-based approaches for variable rate nitrogen fertilization in winter wheat	15
Field path optimization to reduce headland and turning maneuvers at regional scales: automated detection of cultivation direction in the state of Brandenburg, Germany	15
Spatial patchiness and association of pests and natural enemies in agro-ecosystems and their application in precision pest management: a review	15
A pooling module with multidirectional and multi-scale spatial information and its application on semantic segmentation of leaf lesions	15
Advancing Blackmore’s methodology to delineate management zones from Sentinel 2 images	15
Crop stress detection from UAVs: best practices and lessons learned for exploiting sensor synergies	15
Detection of soil-borne wheat mosaic virus using hyperspectral imaging: from lab to field scans and from hyperspectral to multispectral data	15
Forecasting seasonal plot-specific crop coefficient (Kc) protocol for processing tomato using remote sensing, meteorology, and artificial intelligence	15