Computational Methods for Agricultural Research: Advances and Applications

Researchers (most of them from Brazil) in mathematics, computer science, and a range of biological and agricultural sciences survey mathematical and computational methods used in agriculture research. Their topics include the concentration and dynamics of Brazilian agriculture, mining climate and remote sensing time series to improve the monitoring of sugar cane fields, using self-organizing maps for rural territorial typology, zoning based on climate and soil for planting eucalyptus in the southern region of Brazil's Rio Grande du Sul State, mathematical modeling simulation to help assess the environmental impact of agriculture, a computational agent model of flood management strategies, descriptive methods and compromise programming for promoting the agricultural reuse of treated wastewater, and spatial decision support systems for animal traceability. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)