AIIA 2022: Biosystems Engineering Towards the Green Deal : Improving the Resilience of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Systems in the Post-Covid Era / edited by Vito Ferro, Giuseppe Giordano, Santo Orlando, Mariangela Vallone, Giovanni Cascone, Simona M. C. Porto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferro, Vito.

Contributor:

Giordano, Giuseppe.

Orlando, Santo.

Vallone, Mariangela.

Cascone, Giovanni.

Porto, Simona M. C.

Series:

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 2366-2565 ; 337

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental engineering.

Civil engineering.

Agriculture.

Forests and forestry.

Food science.

Environmental Civil Engineering.

Forestry.

Food Science.

Local Subjects:

Environmental Civil Engineering.

Agriculture.

Forestry.

Food Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.

Summary:

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of biosystems engineering, as presented at the 12th Conference of the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering (AIIA), held in Palermo, Italy, on September 19-22, 2022. Focusing on the challenges of improving the resilience of agriculture, forestry and food systems in the post-Covid era, it shows how the research has addressed the following topics: Monitoring and modelling hydraulic and hydrological processes in agriculture and forestry systems; Challenges in stream rehabilitation and soil conservation strategies; Sustainable water resource management under climate change scenarios; Planning safe, healthy and resilient territorial, built and green systems; Cultural heritage preservation and rural landscape protection, planning and management; Plant and livestock production processes and technologies. Healthy and Organic farming. Animal welfare; Energy, waste and by-products smart use; Post-harvest logistics and food chain structures technology; Applications and experiences in smart agriculture and forestry; One Health, management and standardization for agriculture and forestry machinery and structures; Big data, machine learning and data hub in biosystems engineering. The contributions were selected by a rigorous peer-review process, and offer an extensive and multidisciplinary overview of the research in the field of biosystems engineering for sustainable agriculture.

Contents:

Intro

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Contents

A Remote Sensing Based Hydrological Modelling Approach to Estimate Daily Actual Evapotranspiration

1 Introduction

2 Materials and Methods

2.1 The Study Site

2.2 Micrometeorological and Eddy Covariance Measurements

2.3 Vegetation Indices and the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) Model

2.4 The Canopy Water Interception, Soil Water Dynamics, Soil Water Evaporation and the Stress Factor

2.5 The Daily ETc act Construction Procedure

3 Results

4 Discussion and Conclusions

References

Part I: Challenges in Hydraulic and Hydrological Processes, Sustainable Water Resources Management, Stream Rehabilitation and Soil Conservation Strategies Towards the Green Deal

Experimental Tests to Validate a Simple Procedure to Design Dual-Diameter Drip Laterals on Flat Fields

2.1 Simplified Procedure to Design Dual-Diameter Drip Laterals

2.2 Determining the Characteristics of the Emitter for Sublaterals I and II

3 Experimental Results

4 Conclusions

An Innovative Soil Bioengineering Technique by Waste Materials: The RiVite Project

2.1 Materials Used in the Soil Bioengineering Work

2.2 Assembling the RFM Modules

3 Sites Description and Prototypes

3.1 Sites Description

3.2 Prototypes

Monitoring of Irrigation Water Use in Italy by Using IRRISAT Methodology: The INCIPIT Project

2.1 Pilot Areas

2.2 Map of Irrigated Areas

2.3 Crop Evapotranspiration and Crop Irrigation Water Requirements

3 Discussion and Conclusions

References.

Treatment of Steep and Clayey Soils with Olive Pruning Residues for Conservation Purposes: Hydrological Monitoring and Modelling Approaches

2 Material and Methods

2.1 Study Area and Experimental Site

2.2 Monitoring and Statistical Processing of the Hydrological Variables

2.3 Model Implementation, Calibration and Evaluation

3.1 Monitoring of the Hydrological Variables

3.2 Hydrological Modeling

4 Discussion

4.1 Monitoring of the Hydrological Variables

4.2 Hydrological Modeling

5 Conclusion

Macroscopic Root Water Uptake Modelling Using High-Throughput Screening (HTS) Systems: Design and Validation

2.1 Description of the HTS-System and Experimental Setup

2.2 Determination of the Soil Hydrological Properties and Irrigation Scheduling Protocol

2.3 Procedure to Assess the Indicators of Soil and Crop Water Status

3 Results and Discussion

3.1 Agro-Meteorological Characteristics

3.2 Preprocessing of the Crop and Soil Water Status Data Series

3.3 Soil-Plant Water Relation and Root Water Uptake Modelling

Testing the Effect of the Rill Channel Slope on the Correction Factor of Surface Velocity

3.1 Measurements of Flow Surface Velocity

3.2 Determining the Correction Factor for Rill Flows

4 Conclusive Remarks and Research Needs

Monitoring Rainfall Erosivity in the Sparacia Experimental Area by an Optical Disdrometer

Testing an Automatic Approach for Rill Network Extraction to Measure Rill Erosion by Terrestrial Photogrammetry

1 Introduction.

2 Materials and Methods

Assessing Path Tortuosity on Rill Flow Resistance

Assessing Daily ERA5-Land Reanalysis Data to Estimate Actual Evapotranspiration of Olive Orchards in Sicily

2.1 Description of the Experimental Layout

2.2 Climate and Micrometeorological Data

2.3 FAO-56 Model Parameterization

2.4 Statistical Analysis for Model Validation

4 Conclusion

Field Study on Multifunctional Irrigation of Vineyards

2 Methods

2.1 Experimental Site

2.2 Irrigation System and Experimental Design

3.1 Drip Irrigation

3.2 Spring Frost Sprinkler Irrigation

3.3 Evaporative Cooling Sprinkler Irrigation

Productive Response of a Pear Orchard (Pyrus Communis, L.) to the Precision Irrigation Conducted Through a Decision Support System (DSS)

2.1 Site Description and Evaluation of the Irrigation Plant

2.2 Soil Moisture Sensors Calibration and Implementation in WSN

2.3 Crop Ecophysiological and Fruit Yield and Quality Measurements

3.1 Audit of the Micro-Irrigation Plants and Setting of the WSN

3.2 Production and Quality Performance of the New Irrigation Protocol

Assessing Potential Water Savings Implementing Variable Rate Sprinkler Irrigation in a Maize Farm in Northern Italy

2.1 Study Area

2.2 EMI Survey and Soil Mapping

2.3 Design of the Variable-Rate Irrigation Sectors in the Pilot Pivot.

2.4 SWAP Model and Irrigation Management in the Pilot Pivot

2.5 Farm Scale Simulations

3.1 Irrigation Management in the Pilot Pivot

3.2 Farm Scale Simulations

Monitoring and Predicting Irrigation Requirements of Tree Crops in Eastern Sicily as a Tool for Sustainability

2.2 Estimation of the Irrigation Water Requirements

2.3 Validation

4 Discussion and Conclusion

The Vaia Event: Primary Impacts of the Storm and Subsequent Evolution of the Malgonera Stream (Dolomites)

2 Study Area

3 Materials and Methods

3.1 The GCD Tool for DoDs Computation

3.2 Large Wood Surveys Using Field and Remote Sensing Data

4 Results

4.1 Morphological Changes

4.2 Large Wood Loads and Recruitment

5 Discussions

6 Conclusions

Analysis of Bedload Mobility in an Andean Stream

2.1 Study Site

2.2 Bedload Tracing

Hydraulic Roughness Estimation Induced by Riparian Vegetation in Tuscany Rivers for Management Purposes

2.2 Methods for Field Surveys

The Effect of Soil and Vegetation Spatial Variability on Modelling Hydrological Processes for Irrigation Optimisation at Large Scales

2.1 FLOWS-HAGES Agrohydrological Model

2.2 Study Area and Soil Database

2.3 Obtaining Vegetation and Irrigation Parameters for FLOWS-HAGES Simulations Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Applications

2.4 Agrohydrological Simulations Using FLOWS-HAGES Model

3 Results and Discussions.

3.1 Optimising Irrigation Fluxes for Spatially Variable Soil and Vegetation Parameters

3.2 Aggregating Spatial Variability of Soil and Vegetation Parameters

Conceptual Interpretation of Infiltration Under Sealing Process by Membrane Fouling Models

2.1 Materials

2.2 Methods

Adapting P-k-C* Model in Mediterranean Climate for Organic Removal Performance in Horizontal Treatment Wetlands

2.1 Case Studies

2.2 Water Quality Database

2.3 P-k-C* Model Application

3.1 TWs Characterization and Model Fit Parameters

3.2 Calibration and Validation Results

Influence of the Rainfall Time Step on the Thresholds for Separating Erosive and Non-erosive Events

2.1 Rainfall Data and Rainfall Event Classification

2.2 Rainfall Variables

2.3 Procedure for Determining Thresholds for Separating Erosive and Non-erosive Events

3.1 Characteristics of Individual Storms and Rainfall Variables

3.2 Thresholds for Separating Erosive and Non-erosive Events

Quantifying Irrigation Volumes Using Sentinel-1 Soil Moisture Data in Central Italy

2.1 Study Area and Irrigation Data

2.2 The SM-Based Inversion Approach

2.3 Data Collection

Hydrological and Erosive Effects of Prescribed Fire and Mulching with Fern Residues in a Mediterranean Pine Forest

2.2 Prescribed Fire Operations and Mulching Application

2.3 Experimental Design.

2.4 Monitoring of the Hydrological and Erosive Variables.

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Other Format:

Print version: Ferro, Vito AIIA 2022: Biosystems Engineering Towards the Green Deal

ISBN:

3-031-30329-6

OCLC:

1390562622