Research

Extramural Funding

  • Set 2020 - Aug 2024. NIFA-AFRI Sustainable Agricultural Systems (SAS) (Grant Number: 2020-69012-31914). "Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Water, Nutrient, Salinity, And Pest Management in The Western U.S." Elia Scudiero: Principal Investigator

  • Jul 2019 –Jun 2022. NIFA-AFRI Foundational Agriculture Systems and Technology (AST) Agricultural Engineering Program. Food and Agriculture Science Enhancement (FASE) - New Investigator Grant (Grant Number: 2019-67022-29696). USD 487,942. “Agricultural Salinity Management Via an Integration of Proximal and Remote Sensing with Big Geodata Modeling”. Elia Scudiero: Principal Investigator

  • Nov 2018 – Mar 2021. California Department of Food and Agriculture – SCBGP grant (Grant Number 18-0001-030-SC). USD 298,062. "Decision Support Tools for Spatiotemporal Integration of Citrus Virtual Orchard and Soil Sensing". PI: A Pourreza, UC Davis, CA. Elia Scudiero: Co-PI & Project Manager

  • Jun 2018 – Dec 2019. The Lawn Institute (Award Fund #86041). USD 20,000. "Mapping and monitoring turf cooling effects from the house to city scale in inland California". PI: M Schiavon, UC Riverside, CA. Elia Scudiero: Co-PI

  • 2013-2015. Office of Naval Research non-competitive grant (FMMI number: 3200001344). USD 670,332. “Identification of San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Lands for Oil Seed Production”. PI: DL Corwin, USDA-ARS USSL, Riverside, CA. Elia Scudiero: Co-PI

Other Funding

  • July 2020 - Jun 2021. Frank G. and Janice B. Delfino Agricultural Technology Research Initiative, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, UC Riverside. Elia Scudiero: Principal Investigator

Research Highlights

Mobile Orchard Soil Sensing (MOSS) system

8/21/2019

We are developing a mobile system to use the EM-38 DD and other on-the-go sensors in micro-irrigated orchards. How far to the side of our ATV should the EM-38 sit? Preliminary findings indicate that the sensor should be at least 8 feet (2.4 m) away from the ATV.

Our paper featured in the Tree Physiology cover

8/21/19

Pouzoulet, J., E. Scudiero, M. Schiavon, L.S. Santiago and P.E. Rolshausen. 2019. Modeling of xylem vessel occlusion in grapevine. Tree Physiology 39: 1438-1445. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpz036 was selected for the Aug 2019 Tree Physiology Issue cover

https://academic.oup.com/treephys/article/39/8/1438/5425284

Mapping soil salinity from space

December 2017

Scudiero, E., Corwin, D.L., Anderson, R.G., Yemoto, K., Clary, W., Wang, Z.L., Skaggs, T.H., 2017. Remote sensing is a viable tool for mapping soil salinity in agricultural lands. California Agriculture 71, 231-238. 10.3733/ca.2017a0009.

Our was featured in the cover of the December 2017 issue of California Agriculture