expert systems in agriculture

EXPERT SYSTEMS IN AGRICULTURE

By

Maryam Hazman, PhD

Deputy Director

Central Laboratory of Agricultural Expert System, ARC

Scientific Research Group in Egypt

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Scientific Research Group in Egypt www.egyptscience.net

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Agenda

Artificial Intelligence

Expert System

Diagnostic Expert System

Expert System in Agriculture

Expert System Application

Decision Support Tool

Community Knowledge Share Tool

Automatic Control

Conclusion

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the study of how computers can simulate, to some extent, human activities such as thinking, perceiving, learning and acting.

AI systems are designed to mimic the human capabilities of thinking and sensing.

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Expert System

Expert system (ES) is a branch of Artificial

Intelligence that uses knowledge and

problem solving techniques.

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Expert System is designed to hold the accumulated knowledge of one or more domain experts. It simulates the problem solving behavior of an expert in a narrow domain

Expert System

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Diagnostic Expert System

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Expert Systems in Agriculture

Expert systems can be used as an effective tool

for knowledge documentation, transfer and

sharing.

Gap of knowledge between researchers and

academics and extension or field workers or

growers.

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Expert System Application

Decision support tool.

Community knowledge share tool.

Automatic control.

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Decision Support Tool

Plant Farm Management:

Varity selection

Agricultural Practices: Land Preparation, Planting, Plant Care, Fertilization, Irrigation, Harvest

Animal Farm Management:

Caring, Feeding

Diagnosis and Treatment (Plant, Animal)

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Barely Varity Selection

Back

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Wheat Fertilization

Back

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Wheat Irrigation

Back

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Poultry Caring

Back

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Rice Treatment

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Each expert builds his/her own system.

Diagnosis specific disorders group.

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Automatic Control

Develop machine that eliminate red palm weevil

based on expert systems technology.

Control irrigation using an embedded expert

system.

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Expert systems overcomes the aforementioned problems: Integration of knowledge and experiences of different specialties.

Integration of information sources such as images, videos.

The undocumented experience and knowledge.

The lack of experts to support agricultural growers .

Updating information (pesticides).

Conclusion

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Conclusion

Expert System can Use as a tool for organizing researchers knowledge.

Use as a knowledge transfer and sharing tool.

Use as a training tool.

Use as a Decision support tool for assisting extension officers and growers in their job.

Allow environmentally and socially complementary control to be used in production agriculture

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