Sensing Approaches for Precision Agriculture

Alexandre Escolà: Studied Technical Agricultural Engineering at undergraduate level and Agronomical Engineering at Masters level, both at the School of Agrifood and Forestry Science and Engineering of the Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia. His PhD and Masters theses were related to the use of sensors to enhance pesticide spray applications in fruit orchards and he received his PhD in 2010. In 2001, he was employed as part-time equivalent to assistant professor in the same centre and since 2006 as an equivalent to assistant professor. From 2013 he has beenhired as anequivalent to associate professor. His research is carried out within the GRAP, the Research Group on AgroICT& Precision Agriculture of the University of Lleida/Agrotecnio-CERCA Centre, in which he is currently serving as the coordinator. His research lines focus on electronic 3D characterization of vegetation, especially in fructiculture and viticulture, and on developing Precision Agriculture techniques and technologies in general. He is member ofthe Department of Agricultural and Forest Engineering and teaches at the School of Agrifood and Forestry Science and Engineering and at the Polytechnic School of the Universitatde Lleida.  He has attended ECPA and ICPA conferences since 2007 andin 2013 he chaired the 9th ECPA, held in Lleida. Since then, he has beena member of the ECPA programme committee and has served on the scientific review committee. He assisted the ISPA in the process of finding a modern definition of Precision Agriculture and participated in its translation into Catalan and Spanish. He serves on the editorial boards for Precision Agriculture (Springer) andSensors (MDPI).