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Honorio Navarro, doctoral student in Information Technology and Communications at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) has been hired to investigate for a year at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) .
During the research stay, which begins in March, Navarro will work on systems to aid decision making (DSS, for its acronym in English) and pattern recognition using images, by means of techniques for machine learning (machine learning ).
Technologies used in developing his thesis on systems of automatic irrigation management.
"We want to develop a system of automatic watering to be able to decide, depending on many variables, when the contributions of water are needed," says the researcher, who, along with their thesis directors and Roque Torres Fulgencio Soto, is a founding partner company Widhoc, 'spin off' of the UPCT.
"In Widhoc pursue precision farming, which based on the data provided by sensors irrigation decisions would take a agronomist automatically generate," says Torres.
"For the system to make decisions with the least possible error, a previous training is required," adds Soto.
Navarro, who has already begun in machine learning systems in other research stay in Belfast, the many members of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena in recent months have done research in American universities adds.
The company has about 80 Widhoc instrumentation, control and environmental management on agricultural land and irrigation reservoirs in the Region of Murcia and surrounding provinces.
Its customers include major food companies like G's Spain, plum or Agrifusa.
Source: UPCT
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