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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Weather uncertainty"”.
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Climate change adaptation and sustainable agricultural intensification in developing countries
… In the context of climate change, access to weather information can be a critical factor to adoption of adaptation technology. Chapter 4 of this dissertation deals with this issue and assesses whether provision of weather information to farmers can enhance adoption of improved farming …
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Farm management implications of uncertainty in the number of days suitable for fieldwork in corn production
Weather uncertainty plays a large role in farm management decisions. Changes in weather trends or increased variability during the growing season may alter the optimal farm management choices regarding machinery purchases, crop allocation to available acreage, varietal trait selection, and crop …
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Optimization in a system of systems: Minimizing a farm's environmental impact through operational efficiency
… constraint can represent labor availability, weather uncertainty, plant maturity timelines, or anything else that could influence the system’s productivity requirement. Both publicly available and proprietary data, supplied by an industry partner, are analyzed to produce high-integrity LCA …
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Applied Probabilistic Inference: Model Estimation For Hvac Predictive Controls And All-Weather Perception For Autonomous Vehicles
… Control (MPC) framework, which anticipates weather uncertainty and time-varying temperature set-points, is shown to improve energy savings and occupant comfort. Part two of this study presents a novel probabilistic perception algorithm as a real-time joint solution to data association, …
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Post-harvest loss in tropical soybean systems: Brazilian managers' perceptions and mitigation strategies: two manuscripts
… optimal, as “time” is a binding constraint and weather uncertainty is significant. The objective of the first manuscript of this thesis is to analyze the role demographic characteristics and managerial decision making have on farmers’ perceptions of the level and cause of PHL. The results offer …
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Essays on supply chain analytics: Investment and capacity planning under uncertainty
… in the first essay, however, it exhibits greater uncertainty in price than the traditional bottled wine. We find in our empirical analysis that both weather and market fluctuations influence the evolution of the price in wine futures, and thus, despite being the flexible option, it also represents …
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Irrigation scheduling: a soft adaptor to weather uncertainties and irrigation efficiency improvement initiatives
… of climatic data were collected from Broadfield weather station. Irrigation and deep percolation have been estimated using two soil-plant-atmosphere mathematical models (IrriCalc and CropWat 8) under a range of irrigation management strategies, including those identified in the farmers’ survey, …