Precision Agriculture

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Precision agriculture studies how to sense variation within fields and use it to tailor decisions such as irrigation, fertilization, pest control, and harvest timing. Common approaches combine satellite and UAV imagery, field and IoT sensors, and crop or weather data with computer vision, time-series learning, crop models, and spatial analytics; autonomous tractors and spraying robots turn estimates into site-specific actions. Work also explores uncertainty-aware decision support, edge AI, and language-model or reinforcement-learning agents, evaluated on image benchmarks, cross-season and cross-site tests, and field trials. A central challenge is moving beyond high in-domain prediction scores: domain shifts, sparse labels, connectivity limits, and uncertain economics can undermine recommendations, making robust validation and measurement of yield, input use, and profit essential.

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63 papers12 papers in the last four weeks, up 9% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. Algorithmic Monoculture in Machine Learning-based Site-Specific Fertilizer Recommendation

    Oct 27, 2026Abdelghani BelgaidEnsemble DiversityPrecision Agriculture

    College of Computing Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

  2. AgriDefend: A $205 Offline Edge Device that Detects Crop Stress Before Visible Symptoms via Multimodal AI Fusion

    Oct 26, 2026George Xu, Nikhil Vincent, Elizabeth S. ForbesPrecision AgricultureAgricultural Remote Sensing

    Independent Researcher Bothell, WA, USA · Univ. of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  3. Agri-SCHOLAR: Simulation-Grounded In-Season Rolling Advisories for Agricultural Crops Using LLM-Bounded Optimization

    Oct 22, 2026Geetha Charan, Vedant Balasubramaniam, Manojkumar Patil +5AI-Assisted Decision MakingPrecision Agriculture

    Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  4. Scenario Generalization and Sector Transfer in Real Surface Irrigation Surrogate Modelling with Tabular Models

    Oct 19, 2026Alessandro Cagiano, M. Aybars Seyhan, Fabiola Gangi +2Surrogate ModelingSpatial Generalization

    Department of Computer Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy · Digital Drop s.r.l., Milan, Italy · Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

  5. Multi-Speed Field Evaluation of a Semi-Autonomous Precision Sprayer for Weed Control in Vegetable Crops

    Oct 17, 2026Md Khairul Islam, Boyang Deng, Yuzhen Lu +2Precision AgricultureAgricultural Robotics

    Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA · Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  6. Precision Cotton Disease Management: Leveraging UAV Imagery and Custom YOLO Deep Learning Framework for Enhanced Detection

    Oct 16, 20261. Anwar Iqbal*1 aiqbal. rime23smme@student. nust. edu. pk 2. Kunwar Faraz Ahmad Khan1 kunwar. faraz@smme. nust. edu. pk 3. Shahbaz Khan1 shahbaz. khan@smme. nust. edu. pk 4. Khawaja Fahad Iqbal1 fahad. iqbal@smme. nust. edu. pk 5. Sara Ali1, 2 sara. baber@smme. nust. edu. pk 6. Saqib Nazir1 saqib. nazir@smme. nust. edu. pk 7. Muhammad Azhar Javed3 muhammadazhar6231@gmail. com 1 Department of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence +11Efficient Object DetectionPlant Disease Classification

    NUST

  7. DefoliationCAM: An Edge-AI System for Real-Time Insect Defoliation Severity Assessment in Grapevines

    Oct 14, 2026Fuchen Li, Wei-Zhen Liang, Pin-Chu Lai +7Agricultural Image AnalysisPrecision Agriculture

    Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA · Panhandle Research and Extension Center, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Scottsbluff, NE, USA · Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA +2

  8. MARTS: A Modular Agricultural Robot for Targeted Spraying of Diseased Tomato Plants in Greenhouses

    Oct 13, 2026Rajmeet Singh, Manveen Kaur, Yusuf Adamu +2Agricultural RoboticsPrecision Agriculture

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence Abu Dhabi, UAE · Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS) Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Windsor ON, Canada +1

  9. A Swarm-Coordinated Multi-Robot System for Early Stress Detection in Agricultural Rows Using Multimodal Leaf Sensing

    Oct 6, 2026Rishi Gupta, Astha Goyal, Vinay VishwakarmaPlant Disease ClassificationAgricultural Remote Sensing

    Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India · Assistant Professor, University of Delhi · Mentor, On My Own Technology Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India

  10. Evaluating human-AI workflows for field research in viticulture

    Oct 6, 2026Niko Carvajal Janke, Daoyuan Jin, Shivranjani Baruah +4AI-Assisted Scientific ResearchHuman-in-the-Loop Evaluation

    Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, New York, 14456, USA · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14850, USA · Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, New York, 14456, USA +1

  11. A Data-Centric Review of Plant Disease Datasets: Taxonomy, Critical Analysis, Environmental Variability, and Implications for Precision Agriculture

    Oct 5, 2026Aamir Hilal, Shabir Ahmad Sofi, Neeraj GoelClass-Imbalanced LearningPlant Disease Classification

    Department of Information Technology, National Institute of Technology, Hazratbal Srinagar 190006, Jammu & Kashmir, India · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Rupnagar 140001, Punjab, India

  12. Technical Report on the Turba Fertilizer Machine Learning Stack in Morocco

    Oct 5, 2026Abdelghani Belgaid, Zakaria Mahmoud, Fahd Chibani +3Surrogate ModelingML Reproducibility

    Turba Open Lab

  13. Mimir: Physics-Grounded LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Irrigation Control

    Oct 1, 2026Yimeng Liu, Mi Zhang, Younsuk Dong +1Language Model-Based ControlLLM Agent Self-Improvement

    Michigan State University · Ohio State University

  14. Recent Advances in Agentic Agri-Robotic Phenotyping: A Perspective Review from Fragmented Multimodal Sensing to Unified PhenoAgent Intelligence

    Sep 28, 2026Muhammad Owais, Ehtesham Iqbal, Samee Ullah Khan +3Plant PhenotypingAgricultural Robotics

    Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KU-CARS), Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. · Advanced Research and Innovation Center (ARIC), Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. +1

  15. A Multi-Dataset Benchmark of YOLO-Based Weed Detection in Precision Agriculture

    Sep 27, 2026Hristina Zdraveska, Vlatko Spasev, Ivica Dimitrovski +2Multi-Source Domain AdaptationWeed Detection

    Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University Ss Cyril and Methodius, Rudzer Boshkovikj 16, P.O. 393, Skopje, 1000, North Macedonia

  16. From greenhouse climate to individual leaves: an organ-resolved model of lettuce growth

    Sep 22, 2026Md Hasibur Rahman, Faraz Ahmed, Hafiz Muhammad Bilal +3Digital TwinsPrecision Agriculture

    Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, United States · Department of Horticulture, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, United States · SynapGarden, Detroit, MI 48226, United States

  17. An Uncertainty-Aware Hybrid Mathematical-Machine-Learning Model for Smart Irrigation Decision Support

    Sep 12, 2026Andrea ScarioloDecision-Making under UncertaintyPrecision Agriculture

    Independent Researcher

  18. Context-Aware Adaptive Pesticide Spraying for Agricultural Robots under Changing Weather and Terrain Using Vision-Language Models

    Sep 9, 2026Cong-Thanh Vu, Yen-Chen LiuAgricultural RoboticsPrecision Agriculture

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 70101, Taiwan

  19. Topologically Consistent Agricultural Parcel Vectorization with Semantic-Guided Diffusion and Topology-Aware Polygonization

    Sep 7, 2026Weiqin Jiao, Xiaolong Zuo, Claudio PerselloPrecision AgricultureDiffusion Models

    Department of Earth Observation Science, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, 7522 NH, The Netherlands · State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

  20. Simulating the Marginal Green Contribution of AI Modules in a Smart-Agriculture Platform: Evidence from Two Monte Carlo Experiments

    Sep 6, 2026Zhaoyang Li, Ruijie Zhang, Zhaoji Sun +1Precision Agriculture

    Sanya University, Sanya, Hainan 572022, China · Handan Weizhi Jingjie AI Basic Software Co., Ltd.

  21. Monte Carlo-Based Ex-Ante Assessment of the Green Benefits of an AI-Driven Smart Agriculture Platform in Hainan

    Sep 6, 2026Zhaoyang Li, Ruijie Zhang, Zhaoji Sun +1Precision Agriculture

    Sanya University, Sanya, Hainan 572022, China · Handan Weizhi Jingjie AI Basic Software Co., Ltd.

  22. Multi-Reference Path Tracking Control for an Agricultural Tractor with Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

    Sep 4, 2026Marcel Moll, Timo OksanenRobot Trajectory TrackingAgricultural Robotics

    Chair of Agrimechatronics, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich, Germany

  23. Corner Cases: Headland Coverage Path Planning for Autonomous Driving in Arable Farming

    Sep 3, 2026Riikka Soitinaho, Timo OksanenAutonomous DrivingCoverage Path Planning

    Technical University of Munich, Germany; Chair of Agrimechatronics; Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)

  24. Private Computation Space: Experience with Trusted Multi-Cluster Federated Learning for Agriculture

    Sep 1, 2026Shuangyu Lei, Muhammad Salman Abid, Jacob Belding +17Privacy-Preserving Federated LearningFederated Learning

    Cornell University USA

  25. Deploying and Evaluating a Smart-Agriculture Agentic Engine for Full-Season Soybean Farm Operations

    Aug 31, 2026Ao Qu, Panagiotis Michelakis, Linyuan Han +8Software EngineeringMulti-Agent Orchestration

    Faculty of Computing Harbin Institute of Technology State Key Laboratory of Smart Farm Technologies and Systems Harbin, China · School of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens Athens, Greece

  26. AGRICAM: A Track-Mounted Crop Pollination Monitoring Robot

    Aug 29, 2026Malika Nisal Ratnayake, Adel N. Toosi, James Cook +2Agricultural RoboticsRobotic Data Collection

    Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia · School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC, 3052, Australia · Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia +1

  27. Multi-Step Forecasting of Grape Berry Temperature based on LSTM Model with Feed-Forward Attention

    Aug 29, 2026Srikanth Gorthi, L. G. Divyanth, Dattatray Bhalekar +2Time Series ForecastingLong Short-Term Memory Networks

    Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems & Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Prosser, WA, USA · AgWeatherNet, Washington State University, Prosser, WA, USA · Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA +1

  28. Accurate prediction is not profitable advice: profit-based evaluation of machine learning nitrogen recommendations in winter wheat

    Aug 27, 2026Xulong Wang, Po YangDecision-Focused LearningPrecision Agriculture

    University of Sheffield

  29. Embedding NDRE Trajectories into Contrastive Learning for Label-Free, Physiology-Aware Crop-Stress Staging and DSS Outputs

    Aug 26, 2026Shafqaat AhmadAgricultural Remote SensingPrecision Agriculture

    Data Scientist, Brandt Group of Companies, Canada.

  30. Autonomous Agricultural Tractor: Integrated Weed Detection and LiDAR Navigation for Precision Paddy Farming

    Aug 19, 2026Benjamin Merryman-Smith, Tony Nguyen, Bilal Dogutas +3Agricultural RoboticsPrecision Agriculture

    Department of Computing and Software Engineering Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL 33965, USA