Information and Communication Technologies in Modern Agricultural Development: 8th International Conference, HAICTA 2017, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 21–24, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment, HAICTA 2017, held in Chania, Crete, Greece, in September 2017. The 14 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected from the 55 accepted full papers out of 124 submissions. The selected papers span across various subjects, from ICT innovations and smart farming, to decision support systems, as well as precision farming, disease diagnosis using mobile devices, IoT for monitoring and controlling animal production, sensor-based solutions, GIS-based water management, environmental planning, information systems for monitoring of fish stocks and fisheries, information management in the agri-food sector, and forestry planning and management. Front Matter ....Pages I-X ICT Innovations and Smart Farming (Claus Aage Grøn Sørensen, Dimitrios Kateris, Dionysis Bochtis)....Pages 1-19 Methods and Tools for Supporting the Integration of Stocks and Fisheries (Yannis Tzitzikas, Yannis Marketakis, Nikos Minadakis, Michalis Mountantonakis, Leonardo Candela, Francesco Mangiacrapa et al.)....Pages 20-34 Semiotic-Sociological Textures of Landscape Values. Assessments in Urban-Coastal Areas (Salvatore Giuffrida, Maria Rosa Trovato, Annalaura Giannelli)....Pages 35-50 A Systematic Review on Collective Awareness Platforms (Thomas Kappas, Thomas Bournaris, Evangelia Economou, Christina Moulogianni)....Pages 51-63 Using Geostatistics and Multicriteria Spatial Analysis to Map Forest Species Biogeophysical Suitability: A Study Case for the Centro Region of Portugal (Luís Quinta-Nova, Natália Roque, Isabel Navalho, Cristina Alegria, Teresa Albuquerque)....Pages 64-83 CAP 2020 Regionalization Design: A Decision Support System (Dimitris Kremmydas, Michael Malliapis, Leyteris Nellas, Apostolos Polymeros, Stelios Rozakis, Kostas Tsiboukas)....Pages 84-96 Strategic Decision Making and Information Management in the Agrifood Sector (Maria Kamariotou, Fotis Kitsios, Michael Madas, Vicky Manthou, Maro Vlachopoulou)....Pages 97-109 Water Data Sharing in Italy with SIGRIAN WebGIS Platform (Raffaella Zucaro, Gianfranco Giannerini, Antonio Gerardo Pepe, Fabrizio Luigi Tascone, Marco Martello)....Pages 110-117 Towards the Commercialization of a Lab-on-a-Chip Device for Soil Nutrient Measurement (Georgios Kokkinis, Guenther Kriechhammer, Daniel Scheidl, Bianca Wilfling, Martin Smolka)....Pages 118-130 SheepIT, an IoT-Based Weed Control System (Luís Nóbrega, Paulo Pedreiras, Pedro Gonçalves)....Pages 131-147 Techniques for Plant Disease Diagnosis Evaluated on a Windows Phone Platform (Nikos Petrellis)....Pages 148-163 Different Remote Sensing Data in Relative Biomass Determination and in Precision Fertilization Task Generation for Cereal Crops (Jere Kaivosoja, Roope Näsi, Teemu Hakala, Niko Viljanen, Eija Honkavaara)....Pages 164-176 Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Precision Farming Services: An Integrated Emulation Modelling Approach (Dimitrios Bechtsis, Vasileios Moisiadis, Naoum Tsolakis, Dimitrios Vlachos, Dionysis Bochtis)....Pages 177-190 Precision Poultry Farming: Software Architecture Framework and Online Zootechnical Diary for Monitoring and Collaborating on Hens’ Health (Magdalena Stefanova)....Pages 191-205 Back Matter ....Pages 207-207