PROF. Yiannis Ampatzidis
Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis is an agricultural engineer and assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering at the California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB).
2017 ASHS Annual Conference
September 19-22, 2017
ASABE Annual International Meeting
Spokane, Washington
16-19 July, 2017
UPCOMING EVENTS
ECPA Conference on Precision Agriculture
Edinburgh
16-20 July, 2017
MY LATEST RESEARCH
We have created a portable harvest system –FairWeigh- that saves growers money and improves payroll accuracy/fairness, worker safety, and fruit quality. FairWeigh accomplishes this without impeding the current harvest process by 1) precisely weighing the fruit each picker has picked, 2) accurately crediting the weight of harvested fruit to the individual picker, and 3) saving all data in a format that is easily imported to payroll software. This overcomes problems associated with growers significantly over-paying for harvested fruit by piece rate and will vastly improve payroll data entry.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) combined with ground-based wireless sensor networking (WSN) can provide real-time access to high quality data in order to quickly and accurately identify problems. The overall objective of this project was to design and develop an autonomous data acquisition system that is affordable to smaller enterprises and adaptable to a variety of micro-sensors such as chemical sensors, solar radiation sensors, thermal cameras etc. This system integrates a UAV-based data acquisition system and a ground-based WSN.
