Section 7

Purpose

The purpose of the 7th Section is to promote the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to optimize the management of all agricultural and agro-food production processes, in order to improve their quality and sustainability. The effective adoption of ICT in this sector requires the combination of tools and knowledge applied to biological systems including: advanced sensors, control and monitoring techniques, Automation, Robotics, Artificial Vision, advanced data and information management, use of new communication networks. The activities of the 7th Section therefore require an active cooperation with all the other sections of the AIIA, and therefore of the CIGR, for a complete harmonization in the use of ICT in the different production phases of each agro-food chain.

Topics of interest

The 7th Section promotes information and communication technologies both through dissemination in the academic and post-university fields, and through research and development of new systems and applications, with reference to the following sectors: In-situ and remote sensors, from land, air and satellite platforms; Information Processing Technologies (Information Processing Technologies); Simulation and Modelling (Simulation and modelling); Expert Systems (Knowledge Based Systems); Decision Support Systems (Decision Support Systems - DSS); Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence); Geographic Information Systems (Geographical Information Systems - GIS); Global Positioning Systems (GPS); Business and Crop Management Systems (Farm and Crop Management Systems); Precision Agriculture (Precision Agriculture); Networks for data sharing in agriculture (Agricultural Data Communication Networks); Data Extraction (Data Mining); The 7th section organizes and coordinates meetings, seminars and scientific conferences both nationally and internationally, also in collaboration with related associations, and promotes the formation of interdisciplinary groups for participation in research projects.