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Selected Talks and Presentations
- Identification of Drought Injury in Turfgrass Using Hyperspectral and Multispectral Remote Sensing (January 2018) Soils Across Latitudes Conference, San Diego, California
- Conducted a 3-day short course on agricultural mechanization including 8 lectures: Introduction to Agricultural Mechanization, Precision Agriculture and Smart farming, Harvesting Systems, Robotics Weeding, Postharvest Technology, Remote Sensing, Vision-based Sensing Systems, Introduction to Geographic Information System-GIS (October 2018) Master Program in Agribusiness, University of Piura, Piura, Peru
- Harvesting systems (June 2018) Postharvest Technology Short Course, Davis, California
- Using Remote sensing for better understanding plant water need (April 2018) Avocado Extension Meetings in San Luis Obispo, Ventura, and Fallbrook, California
- Advances in Spray Application Technology for Precision Chemical Application (October 2017) South Valley Nut show in Tulare, CA and Mid Valley Nut show in Modesto, CA
- Virtual Vineyard, Capabilities and Applications for Precise Vineyard management (August 2017) Grape Day at UC Kearney REC, Parlier, California
- Virtual Orchard (July 2017), Drone Bootcamp at UC-ANR Building, Davis, California
- Global Warming and Sustainable Agriculture (June 2017), Workshop for High School Students at Kearney REC, Upward Bound Math Science (UBMS) Program, Parlier, California.
- Drones for Precision Agriculture (June 2017), Guest Lecture at UC Merced Mechatronics Lab, Atwater, California.
- The Future of Spray Technology: An Evaluation of a Variable Rate System for Orchard Spray Application (June 2017), Citrus Spray Training Workshop, Lindcove, California.
- An Introduction to Precision Agriculture (March 2017), Guest Lecture, Fresno State University, Fresno, California
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture - Citrus as a Model (March 2017), 2017 Plant Science Extension Continuing Conference (PECC), Davis, California.
- Citrus Huanglongbing Disease Forecasting, from Imagination to Reality (March 2017), 2017 CAPCA meeting, Santa Paula - Ventura Chapter, Santa Paula, California.
- Smart Orchard Monitoring, a Case Study of Citrus Disease Forecasting (February 2017), UC Berkeley, California.
- Precision Agriculture and Advanced Spray technology (February 2017). Annual Conference of the Association of Applied IPM Ecologists (AAIE), Napa, California
- Flight Mission Planning for agricultural aerial imaging (February 2017). Drone Workshop at Kearney REC, Parlier, California.
- Precision Agriculture, Integrated Pest management, and Sustainability (November 2016). Sustainable Ag Expo, San Luis Obispo, California
- Spray Technology and Calibration (November 2016). Almond Short course, Modesto, California
- Real-time sensor for early HLB detection (October 2016). California Citrus Conference, Exeter, California
- Sensing systems for citrus industry (October 2016). Biological and Agricultural Engineering department, UC Davis, California.
- Pre-symptomatic HLB detection using polarized imaging technique (October 2016). California Asian Citrus Psyllid and Huanglongbing research and extension summit. UC Riverside, California.
- Autonomous citrus disease monitoring system using computer vision and unmanned ground vehicle (September 2016). Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation LAB (MESA), UC Merced, California.
- Precision agriculture – overview and applications (May 2016). Certified Crop Adviser Workshop at South Florida State College (SFSC), Florida.
Media Coverage
- Interview about How Remote Sensing can help growers to improve their decision making (September 9, 2019), Kazakh Business Channel.
- Interview to announce the winners of the ASABE Robotics Competition (August 3, 2019). RFD-TV.
- Interview about the ASABE Robotics Competition (July 31, 2018), FOX 2 NEWS.
- Nick Papadopoulos, (December 5, 2017). Ali & The Drones, CropMobster TV, Huffington Post.
- Romero, D E. (2017, September 26). 3D Orchards: UC Researcher Turns Farms into Virtual Reality, NPR Valley Public Radio (KVPR).
- Northcutt, G. (2017, online on August 9 and hard copy on October 7) UC researcher aims to make virtual vineyards a reality, Western Farm Press.
- Warnert, J. E. (2017, September 7) How Virtual Orchards Make Better Harvests
- Warnert, J. E. (2017, July 25) UC scientist gives orchards a whole new color scheme
- Grafton-Cardwell, E., Lemaux P. G., & Stelinski L. (2017, July 24) Starch accumulation sensor for early detection of HLB. Science for Citrus Health
- Newsmaker Conference, World Ag Expo (2017, Feb 14) Strategies to combat HLB in California.
- Buck, B. (2016, November 3) UF/IFAS imaging system can detect citrus greening before symptoms show
- Warnert, J. E. (2016, October 2) New Huanglongbing detection process wins UC advisor international prize
- Rusnak, P. (2015, January 30). Researchers Develop Electronic Citrus Greening Detector
- Wilmoth, K. (2015, January 28). UF researchers develop effective, inexpensive citrus greening detector