[UCR_DataScience] Data Science talk by Dr. Elia Scudiero, Friday February 3rd, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[tsotras at cs.ucr.edu]

The next Data Science seminar will be on Friday, February 3rd,
12:00-1:00pm at the MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).

**** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****

To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-talk-tickets-526841696697

The talk will be given by Dr. Elia Scudiero, Department of Environmental
Sciences, UCR

Title:
Remote Sensing of plant and soil for precision agriculture.

Abstract:

Agricultural systems are often characterized by high spatial and temporal
variability in the factors that determine crop yield. In particular, the
variability of soil and other environmental factors affecting yield are
notoriously hard to characterize at very high spatial resolution. Recent
high-resolution satellites (e.g., Sentinel and PlanetScope) may be useful
tools for monitoring crops and environmental factors in agriculture. This
talk will describe recent research in Scudiero’s Lab on remote sensing of
soil moisture and on the determination of crop salinity tolerance in crops
using high-resolution satellite data. The talk will include an overview of
research gaps and opportunities for the use of data science in
agricultural research.

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Sponsored by the UCR Data Science Center, the purpose of the Data Science
Seminars is to foster collaborations between "core" Data Science faculty
(from CSE/ECE/Stat Departments) and faculty/visitors from other sciences
that face Data Science problems in their research. These informal
gatherings are open to interested faculty and graduate  students. Each
meeting will start with a talk describing research problems and then a
discussion will follow for questions, open problems, ideas for possible
collaborations etc.

A full list of previous seminars appears at:
http://datascience.ucr.edu/seminars

Forward this email to other colleagues or graduate students in your lab
that may be interested. Moreover, if you are interested in giving a Data
Science related talk, please contact me (tsotras at cs.ucr.edu).

Sincerely,
Vassilis Tsotras
Professor, CSE Department
Director, Data Science Major