UC Merced AI Climate Change Project
From Farms to Incubators is thrilled to be a part of the award-winning Climate Change AI project with Dr. Wan Du and his team of researchers in Computer Science and Engineering, and in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Merced.
The partnership focuses on launching a menteeship/mentorship initiative that will give students – especially women and those from underserved communities - an opportunity to document and tell stories about the research project “An Artificial Intelligent Irrigation System for Climate Resilient Agriculture.” The project was awarded the UC Merced Fall 2023 Climate Action Seed Funds. Learn more here.
The photo was provided by Dr. Wan Du and his team, and the description provided from the researchers is as follows: “Researchers on the project focus on field plots of flooding trials. We build this real experimental testbed to verify the effectiveness of our system in practical scenarios. It includes sensory data collection, communication, and decision-making modules. The soil water and oxygen sensors are deployed at different depths in the field. In the middle is the node that collects the data and sends it with LoRa technology in real time so that the server side can analyze them and make flooding schedules for the next period. These components function as a comprehensive in-field experiment system that enables online evaluation of the control system, offering more precise and realistic insights.”
