e-infrastructure Roadmap for Open Science in Agriculture

A bibliometric study

The e-ROSA project seeks to build a shared vision of a future sustainable e-infrastructure for research and education in agriculture in order to promote Open Science in this field and as such contribute to addressing related societal challenges. In order to achieve this goal, e-ROSA’s first objective is to bring together the relevant scientific communities and stakeholders and engage them in the process of coelaboration of an ambitious, practical roadmap that provides the basis for the design and implementation of such an e-infrastructure in the years to come.

This website highlights the results of a bibliometric analysis conducted at a global scale in order to identify key scientists and associated research performing organisations (e.g. public research institutes, universities, Research & Development departments of private companies) that work in the field of agricultural data sources and services. If you have any comment or feedback on the bibliometric study, please use the online form.

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A model to predict ordinal suitability using sparse and uncertain data

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Abstract

We describe the development of the algorithms that comprise the Spatial decision_support System (SDSS) CaNaSTA (Crop Niche Selection in Tropical Agriculture). The system was designed to assist farmers and agricultural advisors in the tropics to make crop suitability decisions. These decisions are frequently made in highly diverse biophysical and socioeconomic environments and must often rely on sparse datasets. The field trial datasets that provide a knowledge base for SDSS such as this are characterised by ordinal response variables. Our approach has been to apply Bayes' formula as a prediction model. This paper does not describe the entire CaNaSTA system, but rather concentrates on the algorithm of the central prediction model. The algorithm is tested using a simulated dataset to compare results with ordinal regression, and to test the stability of the model with increasingly sparse calibration data. For all but the richest input datasets it outperforms ordinal regression, as determined using Cohen's weighted kappa. The model also performs well with sparse datasets. Whilst this is not as conclusive as testing with real world data, the results are encouraging. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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Year
2012
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Country
  • AU
  • CO
Organization
  • Charles_Sturt_Univ (AU)
  • Curtin_Univ (AU)
Data keywords
  • knowledge
  • knowledge based
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Agriculture keywords
  • agriculture
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Data topic
  • modeling
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SO
APPLIED GEOGRAPHY
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