Publications

Exploring smart harvesting, sowing sustainability!

2026

Impact of rural credit on sustainable transformation of Brazilian agriculture: The case of the Low Carbon Agriculture (LCA) Program in Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Environmental Development

2025

Spatial and temporal variability of coffee fruit detachment force in relation to maturity aiming at smart harvesting

• Smart Agricultural Technology (2025)

Mass Impact of a Mounted Sprayer on the Operational Balance of an Agricultural Tractor

• AgriEngineering (2025)

Application of artificial intelligence for identification of peanut maturity using climatic variables and vegetation indices

• Precision Agriculture (2025)

Soil and crop response to varying planter's downforce in corn and cotton fields

• Smart Agricultural Technology (2025)

2024

Precision agriculture in the United States: A comprehensive meta-review inspiring further research, innovation, and adoption

• Computers and Eletronics in Agriculture (2024)

Automated Windrow Profiling System in Mechanized Peanut Harvesting

• Agriengineering (2024)

A systematic and meta-analytical review of soybean mechanized harvesting in South America

• Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental (2024)

Machine learning models for classifying coffee fruits detachment force

• Agronomy Journal (2024)
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Advancements in peanut mechanization: Implications for sustainable agriculture

• Agricultural Systems (2024)
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Monitoring coffee fruit maturity using an enhanced convolutional neural network under different image acquisition settings

• Scientia Horticulturae (2024)

Fuel-flexible biomass off-gassing: The impact of antioxidant spent coffee grains on emissions of CO2, CO, CH4, and VOCs, physical deposits, and combustion in wood pellets

Industrial Crops and Products (2024)

AI-Driven Prediction of Sugarcane Quality Attributes Using Satellite Imagery

• Sugar Tech (2024)

Integrated sensing and machine learning: Predicting saccharine and bioenergy feedstocks in sugarcane

• Industrial Crops and Products (2024)

Integrated Model to Reduce the Maneuver Time of the Harvester and Infield Wagon in Sugarcane Harvest

• AgriEngineering (2024)

Straw and different seeder speeds

• Engenharia Agrícola (2024)

2023

Adsorption of tebuthiuron on hydrochar: structural, kinetic, isothermal, and mechanistic modeling, and ecotoxicological validation of remediative treatment of aqueous system

• Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2023)

2022

Agro-residual biomass and disposable protective face mask: a merger for converting waste to plastic-fiber fuel via an integrative carbonization-pelletization framework

• Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2022)

A High-Throughput Imagery Protocol to Predict Functionality upon Fractality of Carbon-Capturing Biointerfaces

• Agronomy (2022)

Assessing Intra-Row Spacing Using Image Processing: A Promising Digital Tool for Smallholder Farmers

• Agronomy (2022)

Biophysical characteristics of soybean estimated by remote sensing associated with artificial intelligence

• Bioscience Journal (2022)

High-Throughput Carbon-Capturing Frameworks by Pelleting Hydrochar of Food Waste and its Residual Ash as a Dopant

• BioEnergy Research (2022)

Identifying Nematode Damage on Soybean through Remote Sensing and Machine Learning Techniques

• Agronomy (2022)

Integrating Satellite and UAV Data to Predict Peanut Maturity upon Artificial Neural Networks

• Agronomy (2022)

Loss sampling methods for soybean mechanical harvest

• Bioscience Journal (2022)

Oil palm yield estimation based on vegetation and humidity indices generated from satellite images and machine learning techniques

• AgriEngineering (2022)

Peanut harvest quality: Relationship between soil tillage management and threshing systems

• Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research (2022)

Production of high-quality biogenic fuels by co-pelletization of sugarcane bagasse with pinewood sawdust and peanut shell

• Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2022).

Quality in the mechanized harvesting corn sown at different speeds

• Brazilian Journal of Development (2022,)

Rate errors in sprayer turning and circular movements: PWM valve as compensation system and why spray boom size matters

• Crop Protection (2022)

The best moment to carry out the selective harvest of coffee fruits

• Agronomy Journal (2022)
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The Time of Day Is Key to Discriminate Cultivars of Sugarcane upon Imagery Data from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

• Drones (2022)

UAV Multispectral Data: A Reliable Approach for Managing Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria in Common Bean

• Agronomy (2022)

UAVs to Monitor and Manage Sugarcane: Integrative Review

• Agronomy (2022)

Using UAV and Multispectral Images to Estimate Peanut Maturity Variability on Irrigated and Rainfed Fields Applying Linear Models and Artificial Neural Networks

• Remote Sens. (2022)

2021

Determination of application volume for coffee plantations using artificial neural networks and remote sensing

• Computers and Eletronics in Agriculture (2021)

Does moisture in pods interfere with mechanized harvesting of peanuts?

• Engenharia Agrícola (2021) 

Estimated losses in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merril) harvest according to the speed and rotation of the trail system

• Australian Journal of Crop Science (2021)

High-resolution satellite image to predict peanut maturity variability in commercial fields

• Precision Agriculture (2021)

Mapping Gaps in Sugarcane by UAV RGB Imagery: The Lower and Earlier the Flight, the More Accurate

• Agronomy (2021)

Predicting on multi-target regression for the yield of sweet potato by the market class of its roots upon vegetation indices

• Computers and Eletronics in Agriculture (2021)

Use of remote sensing to characterize the phenological development and to predict sweet potato yield in two growing seasons

• European Journal of Agronomy (2021)

Sugarcane base cutting quality using rectangular and circular blades

• Engenharia Agrícola (2021)

Monitoring tractor performance using shewhart and exponentially weighted moving average charts

• Engenharia Agrícola (2021)

2020

Potential of using statistical quality control in agriculture 4.0

• Revista Ciencia Agronomica (2020)
  

• DOI: 10.5935/1806-6690.20200105

Methodology for selective cofee harvesting in management zones of yield and maturation

• Precision Agriculture (2020)
  
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5935/1806-6690.20200105

Software Optimisation for Mechanised Sugarcane Planting Scenarios to Aid in Decision-Making

• Sugar Tech (2020
• DOI: 10.1007/s12355-020-00868-1

Economic viability of a monitoring system in mechanized citrus production

• Científica (2020)
  
• DOI: 10.15361/1984-5529.2020v48n2p107-117

Variability of harvest loss in relation to physiological characteristics of cotton

• Acta Scientiarum (2020)
  
• DOI: 10.4025/actasciagron.v42i1.42587
  

Convolutional neural networks in predicting cotton yield from images of commercial fields

• Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2020)
  

• DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2020.105307

Technical-economic viability of mechanized picking coffee (Coffea arabica L.) in up to three annual operations

• Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research (2020)
  
• DOI: 10.5424/sjar/2020181-14885

Can basal cutting blade wear affect sugarcane regrowth?

• Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2020)
  

• DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2020.105307

2019

Quality of multi-row harvesting in sugarcane plantations established from pre-sprouted seedlings and billets

• Industrial Crops and Products (2019)

• DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2019.111831

The times, movements and operational efficiency of mechanized coffee harvesting in sloped areas

• Plos One (2019)

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217286

Operational cost of mechanized harvesting of first-crop coffee

• Australian Journal of Crop Science (2019)
  

• DOI: 10.21475/ajcs.19.13.09.p1727

Management systems: soil cover and compaction, longitudinal distribution, and yield of soybean crop

• Engenharia Agrícola (2019)
  

• DOI: 10.1590/1809-4430-eng.agric.v39n4p490-497/2019

Wear quantification of basal cutting knives in sugarcane harvesting

• Engenharia Agrícola (2019)
  

• DOI: 10.1590/1809-4430-eng.agric.v39n4p498-503/2019

Soil attributes and initial corn development as a function of fertilization and intercropping systems

• Engenharia Agrícola (2019)
  

• DOI: 10.1590/1809-4430-eng.agric.v39n2p257-264/2019

Environmental variables and quality tools applied to the operator of an agricultural microtractor

• Engenharia Agrícola (2019)
  

• DOI: 10.1590/1809-4430-eng.agric.v39n2p208-215/2019

Development and technical validation of spray kit for coffee harvester

• African journal of agricultural research (2019)
  

• DOI: 10.5897/AJAR2018.13424

Morphological and productive influence of harvest on coffee plants

• Australian Journal of Crop Science (2019)
  

• DOI: 10.21475/ajcs.19.13.01.p6955

Operational performance and losses in mechanized soybean harvesting as a function of field shape

• Comunicata Scientiae (2019)
  

• DOI: 10.14295/CS.v10i2.2718

Adjustments for axial and sieves systems of coffee harvesters

• African journal of agricultural research (2019)
  
• DOI: 10.5897/AJAR2018.13425

Comparative performance of commonly used portable coffee harvesters

• African journal of agricultural research 14(3):168-172
  

• DOI: 10.5897/AJAR2018.13423

Straw management and fertilization in soybean production and soil cover

• Nativa (2019)
  

• DOI: 10.31413/nativa.v7i5.7206

Development of maize seedlings according to the treatment and seed sowing depth

• Revista Engenharia na Agricultura
  
• DOI: 10.13083/reveng.v27i2.779

2018

Use of real-time extend GNSS for planting and inverting peanuts

Development of an electrohydraulic drive system for the vibrating conveyor belt of the peanut digger-inverter

Quality monitoring of soybean seed tests using Statistical Process Control

Can combine headers and travel speeds affect the quality of soybean harvesting operations?

Effect of Soil Management Practices on the Sweeping Operation during Coffee Harvest

Position errors in sowing in curved and rectilinear routes using autopilot

Parameters affecting the mechanical digging of peanut crops from three different shaped plots

Billet distribution and initial establishment of sugarcane due to the planting shifts

Cotton and fiber quality in function of picker harvest speed

A New Approach to Statistical Process Control: Identification of Outliers in Yield Maps

Cotton and fiber quality in function of picker harvest speed

Performance of a special tractor as a function of ballasting and front-wheel drive in coffee harvesting

Performance of corn sowing in fertilization system and intercropping

Multivariate analysis of peanut mechanized harvesting

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) in mechanized harvest of sugarcane billets

2017

Statistical process control applied to mechanized peanut sowing as a function of soil texture