Arslan Munir, associate professor of computer science in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a fog-assisted framework designed to fill the gaps in contemporary smart agriculture technologies.
Munir will lead the three-year project, “FogAg: A Novel Fog-Assisted Smart Agriculture Framework for Multi-Layer Sensing and Real-Time Analytics of Water-Nitrogen Colimitations in Field Crops,” which aims to integrate multi-layer sensing and real-time analytics of a plant-soil system to help solve the complex biological puzzle of linking the effect and interaction of two important crop inputs affecting crop yield, in this case, water and nitrogen.
Working alongside Munir from K-State are co-principal investigators Paul R. Armstrong, adjunct professor of biological and agricultural engineering, Ignacio Ciampitti, professor of agronomy, Mitchell Neilsen, professor of computer science, and Naiqian Zhang, professor of biological and agricultural engineering.
Source: state.edu
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