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Editor-in-Chief A. Joe Turner, Seneca, SC, USA

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Daoliang Li Yande Liu Yingyi Chen (Eds.)

Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture IV 4th IFIP TC 12 Conference, CCTA 2010 Nanchang, China, October 22-25, 2010 Selected Papers, Part I

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Volume Editors Daoliang Li Yingyi Chen China Agricultural University EU-China Center for Information & Communication Technologies (CICTA) 17 Tsinghua East Road, Beijing, 100083, P.R. China E-mail: {dliangl, chenyingyi}@cau.edu.cn Yande Liu East China Jiaotong University College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering Shuanggang Road, Nanchang, 330013 Jiangxi, China E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

I want to express my sincere thanks to all authors who submitted research papers to the 4th IFIP International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture and the 4th Symposium on Development of Rural Information (CCTA 2010) that were held in Nanchang, China, 22–25 October 2010. This conference was hosted by CICTA (EU-China Centre for Information & Communication Technologies, China Agricultural University); China Agricultural University; China Society of Agricultural Engineering, China; International Federation for Information Processing (TC12); Beijing Society for Information Technology in Agriculture, China. It was organized by East China Jiaotong University. CICTA focuses on research and development of advanced and practical technologies applied in agriculture and aims at promoting international communication and cooperation. Sustainable agriculture is currently the focus of the whole world, and the application of information technology in agriculture has become more and more important. ‘Informatized agriculture’ has been the goal of many countries recently in order to scientifically manage agriculture to achieve low costs and high income. The topics of CCTA 2010 covered a wide range of interesting theories and applications of information technology in agriculture, including simulation models and decision-support systems for agricultural production, agricultural product quality testing, traceability and e-commerce technology, the application of information and communication technology in agriculture, and universal information service technology and service systems development in rural areas. We selected 352 best papers among those submitted to CCTA 2010 for these proceedings. It is always exciting to have experts, professionals and scholars getting together with creative contributions and sharing inspiring ideas which will hopefully lead to great developments in these technologies. Finally, I would like also to express my sincere thanks to all the authors, speakers, session chairs and attendees for their active participation and support of this conference.

October 2010

Daoliang Li

Conference Organization

Organizer East China Jiaotong University

Organizing Committee Chair Yande Liu

Academic Committee Chair Daoliang Li

Conference Secretariat Lingling Gao

Sponsors China Agricultural University China Society of Agricultural Engineering, China International Federation for Information Processing, Austria Beijing Society for Information Technology in Agriculture, China National Natural Science Foundation of China

Table of Contents – Part I

3-D Turbulence Numerical Simulation for the Flow Field of Suction Cylinder-Seeder with Socket-Slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yanjun Zuo, Xu Ma, Long Qi, and Xinglong Liao An Architecture for the Agricultural Machinery Intelligent Scheduling in Cross-Regional Work Based on Cloud Computing and Internet of Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhiguo Sun, Hui Xia, and Wensheng Wang A Comparative Study of Modified Materials of Acetylcholinesterase Biosensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xia Sun, Xiangyou Wang, Wenping Zhao, Shuyuan Du, Qingqing Li, and Xiangbo Han A Detection Method of Rice Process Quality Based on the Color and BP Neural Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peng Wan, Changjiang Long, and Xiaomao Huang

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A Digital Management System of Cow Diseases on Dairy Farm . . . . . . . . Lin Li, Hongbin Wang, Yong Yang, Jianbin He, Jing Dong, and Honggang Fan

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A General Agriculture Mobile Service Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haiyan Hu and Xiaolu Su

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A Halal and Quality Attributes Driven Animal Products Formal Producing System Based on HQESPNM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qiang Han and Wenxing Bao

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A Metadata Based Agricultural Universal Scientific and Technical Information Fusion and Service Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cui Yunpeng, Liu Shihong, Sun SuFen, Zhang Junfeng, and Zheng Huaiguo A Method to Calibrate the Electromagnetic Tracking Instrument When Measuring Branches of Fruit Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ding-Feng Wu, Jian Wang, Guo-Min Zhou, and Li-Bo Liu

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A Method of Deduplication for Data Remote Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jingyu Liu, Yu-an Tan, Yuanzhang Li, Xuelan Zhang, and Zexiang Zhou

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A Localization Algorithm for Sparse-Anchored WSN in Agriculture . . . . Chunjiang Zhao, Shufeng Wang, Kaiyi Wang, Zhongqiang Liu, Feng Yang, and Xiandi Zhang

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A New Method of Transductive SVM-Based Network Intrusion Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manfu Yan and Zhifang Liu

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Design and Simulation of Jujube Sapling Transplanter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wangyuan Zong, Wei Wang, Yonghua Sun, and Hong Zhang

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A Precision Subsidy Management System for Strawberry Planting in ChangPing Distinct of BeiJing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chi Zhang, Tian’en Chen, and Liping Chen

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A Semantic Search Engine Based on SKOS Model Ontology in Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yong Yang, Jinhui Xiong, and Shuyan Wang

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A System for Detection and Recognition of Pests in Stored-Grain Based on Video Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ying Yang, Bo Peng, and Jianqin Wang

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A Tabu Search Approach to Fuzzy Optimization of Camellia Oleifera Fertilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qin Song, Fukuan Zhao, and Yujun Zheng

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AgOnt: Ontology for Agriculture Internet of Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Siquan Hu, Haiou Wang, Chundong She, and Junfeng Wang

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Auto Recognition of Navigation Path for Harvest Robot Based on Machine Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bei He, Gang Liu, Ying Ji, Yongsheng Si, and Rui Gao

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An Agricultural Tri-dimensional Pollution Data Management Platform Based on DNDC Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lihua Jiang, Wensheng Wang, Xiaorong Yang, Nengfu Xie, and Youping Cheng

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An Analysis on the Inter-annual Spatial and Temporal Variation of the Water Table Depth and Salinity in Hetao Irrigation District, Inner Mongolia, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun Du, Peiling Yang, Yunkai Li, Shumei Ren, Xianyue Li, Yandong Xue, Lingyan Wang, and Wei Zhao

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An Efficient and Fast Algorithm for Mining Frequent Patterns on Multiple Biosequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wei Liu and Ling Chen

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An Inspection Method of Rice Milling Degree Based on Machine Vision and Gray-Gradient Co-occurrence Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peng Wan and Changjiang Long

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An Intelligent Retrieval Platform for Distributional Agriculture Science and Technology Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaorong Yang, Wensheng Wang, Qingtian Zeng, and Nengfu Xie

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Analysis of Factors Influencing the Off-Farm Employment Based on the Method of PLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ying Huang and Yizong Xu

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Analysis of Income Difference among Rural Residents in China . . . . . . . . Yan Xue, Yeping Zhu, and Shijuan Li

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Analysis of Secretary Proteins in the Genome of the Plant Pathogenic Fungus Botrytis Cinerea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yue Zhang, Jing Yang, Lin Liu, Yuan Su, Ling Xu, Youyong Zhu, and Chengyun Li Analysis of the Heat Transfer Performance of Vapor-Condenser during Vacuum Cooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gailian Li, Tingxiang Jin, and Chunxia Hu Analysis on Dynamic Characteristics of Landscape Patterns in Hailer and around Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongbin Zhang, Guixia Yang, Qing Huang, Gang Li, Baorui Chen, and Xiaoping Xin

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Application and Demonstration of Digital Maize Planting and Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shijuan Li and Yeping Zhu

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Implement of Fuzzy Control for Greenhouse Irrigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wenttao Ren, Quanli Xiang, Yi Yang, Hongguang Cui, and Lili Dai

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Application of Background Information Database in Drought Monitoring of Guangxi in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xin Yang, Weiping Lu, Chaohui Wu, Yuhong Li, and Shiquan Zhong

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Application of Fuzzy Clustering Analysis in Classification of Soil in Qinghai and Heilongjiang of China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ping Han, Jihua Wang, Zhihong Ma, Anxiang Lu, Miao Gao, and Ligang Pan Application of Molecular Imprinting Technique in Organophosphorus Pesticides Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liu Zhao, Hua Ping, Ling Xiang, Ping Han, Jihua Wang, and Ligang Pan Assessing Rice Chlorophyll Content with Vegetation Indices from Hyperspectral Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xingang Xu, Xiaohe Gu, Xiaoyu Song, Cunjun Li, and Wenjiang Huang

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Automated Extracting Tree Crown from Quickbird Stand Image . . . . . . . Guang Deng, Zengyuan Li, Honggan Wu, and Xu Zhang

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Bayesian Networks Modeling for Crop Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chunguang Bi and Guifen Chen

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Characteristics of Soil Environment Variation in Oasis–Desert Ecotone in the Process of Oasis Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haifeng Li, Fanjiang Zeng, Dongwei Gui, and Jiaqiang Lei

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Chlorimuronethyl Resistance Selectable Marker Unsuited for the Transformation of Rice Blast Fungus (Magnaporthe Grisea) . . . . . . . . . . . Chang Qing, Yang Jing, Liu Lin, Su Yuan, Li Jinbin, Zhu Youyong, and Li Chengyun Support Vector Machine to Monitor Greenhouse Plant with Gaussian Loss Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manfu Yan, Qing Zhang, and Jianhang Zhang Classification Methods of Remote Sensing Image Based on Decision Tree Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lihua Jiang, Wensheng Wang, Xiaorong Yang, Nengfu Xie, and Youping Cheng

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Computer-Aided Design System Development of Fixed Water Distribution of Pipe Irrigation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mingyao Zhou, Susheng Wang, Zhen Zhang, and Lidong Chen

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Construction and Practice of Information Demonstration Area in Mentougou District of Beijing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juan Pan, Na Zhang, Shan Yao, and Jian Xu

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Data Acquisition Method for Measuring Mycelium Growth of Microorganism with GIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juan Yang, Jingyin Zhao, Qian Guo, Yunsheng Wang, and Ruijuan Wang Decision Support System for Quantitative Calculation of Crop Climatic Suitability in Hebei Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jing Zhang, Youfei Zheng, and Xin Wang Delineation of Suitable Areas for Maize in China and Evaluation of Application for the Technique of Whole Plastic-Film Mulching on Double Ridges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chaojie Jia, Wenlong Zhao, Yaxiong Chen, and Guojun Sun DEM Simulation and Analysis of Seeds Supply by the Vibrating Seed Box of Magnetic Cylinder Seeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiuping Shao, Jianping Hu, Yingsa Huang, and Fa Liu

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Design and Experiment of Onboard Field 3D Topography Surveying System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mingming Guo, Gang Liu, and Xinlei Li

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Implementation of Agro-environmental Information Service System Based on WebGIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lin Peng, Linnan Yang, and Limin Zhang

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Design and Implementation of Automatic Control System for Rice Seed Tape Winding Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongguang Cui, Wentao Ren, Benhua Zhang, Yi Yang, Lili Dai, and Quanli Xiang

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Design and Implementation of Crop Potential Model System Based on GIS and Componentware Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hao Zhang, Li Ding, Guang Zheng, Xin Xu, Lei Xi, and Xinming Ma

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Design and Realization of a VRGIS-Based Digital Agricultural Region Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaojun Liu, Yuou Zhang, Weixing Cao, and Yan Zhu

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Design and Simulation Analysis of Transplanter’s Planting Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fa Liu, Jianping Hu, Yingsa Huang, Xiuping Shao, and Wenqin Ding

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Design and Simulation for Bionic Mechanical Arm in Jujube Transplanter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yonghua Sun, Wei Wang, Wangyuan Zong, and Hong Zhang

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Design for Real-Time Monitoring System of High Oxygen Modified Atmosphere Box of Vegetable and Fruit for Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhanli Liu, Congcong Yan, Xiangyou Wang, and Xiangbo Han

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Design of Agent-Based Agricultural Product Quality Control System . . . Yeping Zhu, Shijuan Li, Shengping Liu, and E. Yue

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Design of ETL Process on Spatio-temporal Data and Study of Quality Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Buyu Wang, Changyou Li, Xueliang Fu, Meian Li, Dongqing Wang, Huibin Du, and Yajuan Xing

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Design of Fuzzy Drip Irrigation Control System Based on ZigBee Wireless Sensor Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xinjian Xiang

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Design of Greenhouse Environmental Parameters Prediction System . . . . Haokun Zhang and Heru Xue

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Design of Limb for Parallel Mechanism Based on Screw Theory . . . . . . . . Zhigang Lai, Lixin Li, and Ping’ an Liu

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Design of Non-full Irrigation Management Information System of Hebei Province Based on GIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Junliang He, Yanxia Zheng, and Shuyuan Zhang

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The Monitoring System of Water Environment Based on Overlay Network Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xueliang Fu, Changyou Li, Buyu Wang, Honghui Li, Hailei Ma, and Dongnan Zhu

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Design of Rotary Root Stubble Digging Machine Based on Solidworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xinglong Liao, Xu Ma, and Yanjun Zuo

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Design of the Network Platform Scheme Based on Comprehensive Information Sharing of Zigong City’s Characteristic Agriculture . . . . . . . . Wen Lei, Hong Zhang, and Lecai Cai

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Detection of Surface Defects of Fruits Based on Fractal Dimension . . . . . Yongxiang Sun, Yong Liang, and Qiulan Wu

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Detection Technology for Precision Metering Performance of Magnetic-Type Seeder Based on Machine Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deyong Yang, Jianping Hu, and Zuqing Xie

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Determination of Cr, Zn, As and Pb in Soil by X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry Based on a Partial Least Square Regression Model . . . . . . . Anxiang Lu, Xiangyang Qin, Jihua Wang, Jiang Sun, Dazhou Zhu, and Ligang Pan Determination of Thermal Conductivity of Aloe in the Cooling and Thawing Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Min Zhang, Huizhong Zhao, Zhiyou Zhong, Jianhua Chen, Zhenhua Che, Jiahua Lu, and Le Yang Development and Application of Computer Assisted Breeding System in Rabbit Breeding Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xibo Qiao, Hongchao Wu, Suping Sun, Mingyong Li, Zhaopeng Wang, Jingui Dong, and Xinzhong Fan Development of a Web-based Information Service Platform for Protected Crop Pests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chong Huang and Haiguang Wang Development of Dairy Cattle Registration and Herd Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongchao Wu, Xibo Qiao, Xin Luan, Biao Li, Zhongle Chang, Jinghe Tan, and Xinzhong Fan

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Development of the Information Management System for Monitoring Alien Invasive Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hui Li, Ningning Ge, Lingwang Gao, Zuorui Shen, Guoliang Zhang, Zhiyuan Zang, and Yi Li

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Discriminate of Moldy Chestnut Based on Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Feature Extraction by Fourier Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhu Zhou, Xiaoyu Li, Peiwu Li, Yun Gao, Jie Liu, and Wei Wang

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Discrimination of Ca, Cu, Fe, and Na in Gannan Navel Orange by Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yao Mingyin, Lin Jinlong, Liu Muhua, Li Qiulian, and Lei Zejian

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Dynamic Modeling on Nitrogen Assignment in Tobacco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peng Zhao, Yuanyuan Shi, Xinming Ma, and Shuping Xiong

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Dynamic Study of Farmers’ Information Adoption in China . . . . . . . . . . . Jingjing Zhang, Lu Liu, Jian Zhang, and Jinyou Hu

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Estimation of the Number of Apples in Color Images Recorded in Orchards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oded Cohen, Raphael Linker, and Amos Naor

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Impact of Hydraulic Conductivity on Solute Transport in Highly Heterogeneous Aquifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaili Wang and Guanhua Huang

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Effects of Different Physical Characteristics on the Compression Molding Quality of Dried Fish Floss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongmei Xu, Li Zong, and Shengfa Yuan

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Electronic Agriculture Resources and Agriculture Industrialization Support Information Service Platform Structure and Implementation . . . Xiaoming Zhao

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Evaluation on the Agricultural Website’s Efficiency Based on DEA Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shangmin Deng and Weili Men

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Examination Method and Implementation for Field Survey Data of Crop Types Based on Multi-resolution Satellite Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yang Liu, Mingyi Du, and Wenquan Zhu

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Experimental Study of the Parameters of High Pulsed Electrical Field Pretreatment to Fruits and Vegetables in Vacuum Freeze-Drying . . . . . . . Yali Wu and Yuming Guo

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Experimental Study on the Effects of Compression Parameters on Molding Quality of Dried Fish Floss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongmei Xu, Li Zong, Ling Li, and Jing Zhang

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Extraction of Remote Sensing Information of LONGAN Under Support of “3S” Technology in Guangxi Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xin Yang, Chaohui Wu, Weiping Lu, Yuhong Li, and Shiquan Zhong

711

Farmland Irrigation Remote Monitoring System Based on Configuration Software and Multiple Serial Port Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiangbo Han and Zhanli Liu

717

Fast Discrimination of Mature Vinegar Varieties with Visible NIR Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yanru Zhao, Shujuan Zhang, Huamin Zhao, Haihong Zhang, and Zhipeng Liu

721

Discrimination between Mature Vinegars of Different Geographical Origins by NIRS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huishan Lu, Zhengguang An, Huanyu Jiang, and Yibin Ying

729

Prediction of Marked Age of Mature Vinegar Based on Fourier Transform Near Infrared Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhengguang An, Huishan Lu, Huanyu Jiang, and Yibin Ying

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Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Food Safety and Technological Implications of Food Traceability Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hailiang Zhang, Xudong Sun, and Yande Liu

1

Function Design of Township Enterprise Online Approval System . . . . . . Peng Lu, Gang Lu, and Chao Ding

11

Application of GPS on Power System Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chunmei Pei, Huiling Guo, Xiuqing Yang, Bin He, Wei Liu, and Xuemei Li

18

Greenhouse Temperature Monitoring System Based on Labview . . . . . . . . Zhihong Zheng, Kai Zhang, and Chengliang Liu

23

Image-Driven Panel Design via Feature-Preserving Mesh Deformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baojun Li, Xiuping Liu, Yanqi Liu, Ping Hu, Mingzeng Liu, and Changsheng Wang

30

Influences of Temperature of Vapour-Condenser and Pressure in the Vacuum Chamber on the Cooling Rate during Vacuum Cooling . . . . . . . . Tingxiang Jin, Gailian Li, and Chunxia Hu

41

Inspection of Lettuce Water Stress Based on Multi-sensor Information Fusion Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongyan Gao, Hanping Mao, and Xiaodong Zhang

53

Measurement of Chili Pepper Plants Size Based on Mathematical Morphology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yun Gao, Xiaoyu Li, Kun Qi, and Hong Chen

61

Methodology Comparison for Effective LAI Retrieving Based on Digital Hemispherical Photograph in Rice Canopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lianqing Zhou, Guiying Pan, and Zhou Shi

71

Molecular Methods of Studying Microbial Diversity in Soil Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liu Zhao, Zhihong Ma, Yunxia Luan, Anxiang Lu, Jihua Wang, and Ligang Pan Monitoring the Plant Density of Cotton with Remotely Sensed Data . . . Junhua Bai, Jing Li, and Shaokun Li

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Motion Blurring Direction Identification Based on Second-Order Difference Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Junxiong Zhang, Fen He, and Wei Li

102

Multi-agent Quality of Bee Products Traceability Model Based on Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yue E, YePing Zhu, and YongSheng Cao

110

NIR Spectroscopy Identification of Persimmon Varieties Based on PCA-SVM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shujuan Zhang, Dengfei Jie, and Haihong Zhang

118

One Method for Batch DHI Data Import into SQL-Server: A Batch Data Import Technique for DateSet Based on .NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liang Shi and Wenxing Bao

124

Optimal Sizing Design for Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems in Rural Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yu Fu, Jianhua Yang, and Tingting Zuo

131

Overall Layout Design of Iron and Steel Plants Based on SLP Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ermin Zhou, Kelou Chen, and Yanrong Zhang

139

Performance Forecasting of Piston Element in Motorcycle Engine Based on BP Neural Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rong Dai

148

Performance Monitoring System for Precision Planter Based on MSP430-CT171 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lianming Xia, Xiangyou Wang, Duanyang Geng, and Qingfeng Zhang

158

Pervasive Agricultural Environment Monitoring System Based on Embedded Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hu Zhao, Sangen Wang, and Dake Wu

166

Precipitation Resource Potential in Mountainous Areas in Hebei Province Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zheng Liu, Yanxia Zheng, and Zhiyong Zhao

177

Precision Drip Irrigation on Hot Pepper in Arid Northwest China Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huiying Yang, Haijun Liu, Yan Li, Guanhua Huang, and Fengxin Wang Study on Thermal Conductivities Prediction for Apple Fruit Juice by Using Neural Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Min Zhang, Zhenhua Che, Jiahua Lu, Huizhong Zhao, Jianhua Chen, Zhiyou Zhong, and Le Yang

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Prediction of Agricultural Machinery Total Power Based on PSO-GM(2,1, λ, ρ Model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Di-yi Chen, Yu-xiao Liu, Xiao-yi Ma, and Yan Long

205

Prediction of Irrigation Security of Reclaimed Water Storage in Winter Based on ANN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jinfeng Deng

211

Progress of China Agricultural Information Technology Research and Applications Based on Registered Agricultural Software Packages . . . . . . Kaimeng Sun

218

Quantification Research on Different Load Weight-Bearing Running Biochemical Indexes of Rats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huaping Shang

227

Rapid Determination of Ascorbic Acid in Fresh Vegetables and Fruits with Electrochemically Treated Screen-Printed Carbon Electrodes . . . . . . Ling Xiang, Hua Ping, Liu Zhao, Zhihong Ma, and Ligang Pan

234

Regional Drought Monitoring and Analyzing Using MODIS Data—A Case Study in Yunnan Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guoyin Cai, Mingyi Du, and Yang Liu

243

Regression Analysis and Indoor Air Temperature Model of Greenhouse in Northern Dry and Cold Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ting Zhao and Heru Xue

252

Remote Control System Based on Compressed Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weichuan Liao

259

Analysis of the Poverty-Stricken Rural Areas’ Demand for Rapid Dissemination of Agricultural Information—Taking Wanquan County in Hebei Province as an Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaoxia Shi and Yongchang Wu

264

Research and Analysis about System of Digital Agriculture Based on a Network Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duan Yane

274

Research and Development of Preceding-Evaluation System of Rural Drinking Water Safety Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lian He and Jilin Cheng

283

Research of Evaluation on Cultivated Land Fertility in Xinjiang Desert Oasis Based on GIS Technology—Taking No. 22 State Farm as the Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ling Wang, Xin Lv, and Hailong Liu

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Research of Pest Diagnosis System Development Tools Based on Binary Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yun Qiu and Guomin Zhou

300

Research of Soil Moisture Content Forecast Model Based on Genetic Algorithm BP Neural Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caojun Huang, Lin Li, Souhua Ren, and Zhisheng Zhou

309

Research of the Measurement on Palmitic Acid in Edible Oils by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hui Li, Jingzhu Wu, and Cuiling Liu

317

Research on a Heuristic GA-Based Decision Support System for Rice in Heilongjiang Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ran Cao, Yushu Yang, and Wei Guo

322

Research on Docking of Supply and Demand of Rural Informationization and “Internet Digital Divide” in Urban and Rural Areas in China . . . . . . Zhongwei Sun, Yang Wang, and Peng Lu

329

Research on Evaluation of Rural Highway Construction in Hebei Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guisheng Rao, Limeng Qi, Runqing Zhang, and Li Deng

339

Research on Farmland Information Collecting and Processing Technology Based on DGPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weidong Zhuang and Chun Wang

345

Research on Fertilizer Efficiency of Continuous Cropping Greenhouse Cucumber Based on DEA Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaohui Yang, Yuxiang Huang, Shuqin Li, and Sheng Huang

351

Design and Implementation of Crop Recommendation Fertilization Decision System Based on WEBGIS at Village Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hao Zhang, Li Zhang, Yanna Ren, Juan Zhang, Xin Xu, Xinming Ma, and Zhongmin Lu

357

Research on Influenced Factors about Routing Selection Scheme in Agricultural Machinery Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fan Zhang, Guifa Teng, Jie Yao, and Sufen Dong

365

Research on Informationization Talented Person Training Pattern of the Countryside Area in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yang Wang and Zhongwei Sun

374

Research on Quality Index System of Digital Aerial Photography Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wencong Jiang, Yanling Li, Yong Liang, and Yanwei Zeng

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Research on Quality Inspection Method of Digital Aerial Photography Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaojun Wang, Yanling Li, Yong Liang, and Yanwei Zeng

392

On RFID Application in the Tracking and Tracing System of Agricultural Product Logistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weihua Gan, Yuwei Zhu, and Tingting Zhang

400

Research on Rough Set and Decision Tree Method Application in Evaluation of Soil Fertility Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guifen Chen and Li Ma

408

Research on the Method of Geospatial Information Intelligent Search Based on Search Intention Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jingbo Liu, Jian Wang, and Bingbo Gao

415

Research on the Theory and Methods for Similarity Calculation of Rough Formal Concept in Missing-Value Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wang Kai, Li Shao-Wen, Zhang You-Hua, and Liu Chao

425

Research on Traceability System of Food Safety Based on PDF417 Two-Dimensional Bar Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shipu Xu, Muhua Liu, Jingyin Zhao, Tao Yuan, and Yunsheng Wang

434

Research and Application of Cultivation-Simulation- Optimization Decision Making System for Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongxin Cao, Chunlei Zhang, Baojun Zhang, Suolao Zhao, Daokuo Ge, Baoqing Wang, Chuanbao Zhu, David B. Hannaway, Dawei Zhu, Juanuan Zhu, Jinying Sun, Yan Liu, Yongxia Liu, and Xiufang Wei Residue Dynamics of Phoxim in Pericarp, Sarcocarp and Kernel of Apple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yunxia Luan, Hua Ping, and Ligang Pan Risk Analysis of Aedes triseriatus in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jingyuan Liu, Xiaoguang Ma, Zhihong Li, Xiaoying Wu, and Nan Sun Risk Assessment of Reclaimed Water Utilization in Basin Based on GIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yanxia Zheng, Shaoyuan Feng, Na Jiang, and Qingyi Meng

441

457 465

473

Root Architecture Modeling and Visualization in Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liang Tang, Feng Tan, Haiyan Jiang, Xiaojun Lei, Weixing Cao, and Yan Zhu

479

Sensors in Smart Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chunmei Pei, Huiling Guo, Xiuqing Yang, Yangqiu Wang, Xiaojing Zhang, and Hairong Ye

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Simulation Analyze the Dice and Shape of the Dicer Based on ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yingsa Huang, Jianping Hu, Deyong Yang, Xiuping Shao, and Fa Liu

496

Simulation and Design of Mixing Mechanism in Fertilizer Automated Proportioning Equipment Based on Pro/E and CFD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liming Chen and Liming Xu

505

Simulation Study of a Novel Algorithm for Digital Relaying Based on FPGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Renwang He, Dandan Xie, Yuling Zhao, and Yibo Yang

517

Simulation Study of Single Line-to-Ground Faults on Rural Teed Distribution Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wanying Qiu

521

Single Leaf Area Measurement Using Digital Camera Image . . . . . . . . . . . Baisong Chen, Zhuo Fu, Yuchun Pan, Jihua Wang, and Zhixuan Zeng

525

Sliding Monitoring System for Ground Wheel Based on ATMEGA16 for No-Tillage Planter—CT246 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lianming Xia, Xiangyou Wang, Duayang Geng, and Qingfeng Zhang

531

Soil Erosion Features by Land Use and Land Cover in Hilly Agricultural Watersheds in Central Sichuan Province, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhongdong Yin, Changqing Zuo, and Liang Ma

538

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Annual Precipitation during 1958–2007 in Loess Plateau, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rui Guo, Fengmin Li, Wenying He, Sen Yang, and Guojun Sun

551

Spatial Statistical Analysis in Cow Disease Monitoring Based on GIS . . . Lin Li, Yong Yang, Hongbin Wang, Jing Dong, Yujun Zhao, and Jianbin He

561

Study for Organic Soybean Production Information Traceability System Based on Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xi Wang, Chun Wang, Xinzhong Wang, and Weidong Zhuang

567

Study of Agricultural Informatization Standards Framework . . . . . . . . . . . Yunpeng Cui, Shihong Liu, and Pengju He

573

On Countermeasures of Promoting Agricultural Products’ E–Commerce in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weihua Gan, Tingting Zhang, and Yuwei Zhu

579

Study on Approaches of Land Suitability Evaluation for Crop Production Using GIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linyi Li, Jingyin Zhao, and Tao Yuan

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Tracking of Human Arm Based on MEMS Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yuxiang Zhang, Liuyi Ma, Tongda Zhang, and Fuhou Xu

597

Study on Integration of Measurement and Control System for Combine Harvester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jin Chen, Yuelan Zheng, Yaoming Li, and Xinhua Wei

607

Study on Jabber Be Applied to Video Diagnosis for Plant Diseases and Insect Pests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wei Zhang, JunFeng Zhang, Feng Yu, JiChun Zhao, and RuPeng Luan

615

Study on Pretreatment Algorithm of Near Infrared Spectroscopy . . . . . . . Xiaoli Wang and Guomin Zhou

623

Study on Rapid Identification Methods of Transgenic Rapeseed Oil Based on Near Infrared Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shiping Zhu, Jing Liang, and Lin Yan

633

Study on Regional Agro-ecological Risk and Pressure Supported by City Expansion Model and SERA Model – A Case Study of Selangor, Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaoxia Shi, Yaoli Zhang, and Cheng Peng Study on Relationship between Tobacco Canopy Spectra and LAI . . . . . . Hongbo Qiao, Weng Mei, Yafei Yang, Wang Yong, Jishuai Zhang, and Yu Hua Study on Spatial Scale Transformation Method of MODIS NDVI and NOAA NDVI in Inner Mongolia Grassland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongbin Zhang, Guixia Yang, Qing Huang, Gang Li, Baorui Chen, and Xiaoping Xin Study on Storage Characteristic of Navel Orange Based on ANN . . . . . . . Junfang Xia and Runwen Hu Study on the Differences of Village-Level Spatial Variability of Agricultural Soil Available K in the Typical Black Soil Regions of Northeast China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weiwei Cui and Jiping Liu Study on the Management System of Farmland Intelligent Irrigation . . . Fanghua Li, Bai Wang, Yan Huang, Yun Teng, and Tijiu Cai Extracting Winter Wheat Planting Area Based on Cropping System with Remote Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xueyan Sui, Xiaodong Zhang, Shaokun Li, Zhenlin Zhu, Bo Ming, and Xiaoqing Sun

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Study on the Rainfall Interpolation Algorithm of Distributed Hydrological Model Based on RS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaoxia Yang, Yong Liang, and Song Jia Study on Vegetable Field Evaluation Index System for Non-Point Source Pollution of Dagu River Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jinheng Zhang, Junqiang Wang, Yongliang Lv, Jianting Liu, Dapeng Li, Zhenxuan Yao, Xi Jiang, and Ying Liu

700

706

Study on Water Resources Optimal Allocation of Irrigation District and Irrigation Decision Support System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liang Zhang, Daoxi Li, and Xiaoyu An

716

Study on Web-Based Cotton Fertilization Recommendation and Information Management Decision Support System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yv-mei Dang and Xin Lv

726

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Study on XML-Based Heterogeneous Agriculture Database Sharing Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qiulan Wu, Yongxiang Sun, Xiaoxia Yang, Yong Liang, and Xia Geng

1

Studying on Construction Programs of the Platform of Primary Products Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gang Lu, Peng Lu, and Cuie Liu

8

Supply Chain Integration Based on Core Manufacturing Enterprise . . . . . Wenqin Cao and Haiyan Zhu

14

Target Recognition for the Automatically Targeting Variable Rate Sprayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maogang Li, Yan Shi, Xingxing Wang, and Haibo Yuan

20

Target Recognition of Software Research about Machine System of Accurately Spraying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yan Shi, Chunmei Zhang, Maogang Li, and Haibo Yuan

29

The Application of CPLD and ARM in Food Safety Testing Data Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jianjun Ding, Xihua Wang, and Chao Sun

36

The Application of Three-Dimensional Visualization Technology in Village Information Service Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaoxia Yang, Yong Liang, and Song Jia

41

Research and Application of Data Security for Mobile Devices . . . . . . . . . Xiandi Zhang, Feng Yang, Zhongqiang Liu, Zhenzhi Wang, and Kaiyi Wang The Design and Development of the Land Management System in Dingzhuang Town Based on Spatial Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yusheng Liang, Wenbin Sun, Haiting Diao, and Ying Li The Design of Portable Equipment for Greenhouse’s Environment Information Acquirement Based on Voice Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xin Zhang, Xiaojun Qiao, Wengang Zheng, Cheng Wang, and Yunhe Zhang The Design of Smart Wireless Carbon Dioxide Measuring Instrument Used in Greenhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wengang Zheng, Xin Zhang, Xiaojun Qiao, Hua Yan, and Wenbiao Wu

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The Detection of Quality Deterioration of Apple Juice by Near Infrared and Fluorescence Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dazhou Zhu, Baoping Ji, Zhaoshen Qing, Cheng Wang, and Manuela Zude The Determination of Total N, Total P, Cu and Zn in Chicken Manure Using Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yiwei Dong, Yongxing Chen, Dazhou Zhu, Yuzhong Li, Chunying Xu, Wei Bai, Yanan Wang, and Qiaozhen Li The Growth Phases of Information Construction in Chinese Rural Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Li-jun Wang The Judgment of Beef Marble Texture Based on the MATLAB Image Processing Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ruokui Chang, Yong Wei, Lizhen Ma, Yuanhong Wang, Hua Liu, and Mingyu Song

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The New Method of Fruit Tree Characteristics Acquisition Using Electromagnetic Tracking Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jian Wang, Ding-Feng Wu, Guo-Min Zhou, and Yun Qiu

113

The Novel Integrating Sphere Type Near-Infrared Moisture Determination Instrument Based on LabVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yunliang Song, Bin Chen, Shushan Wang, Daoli Lu, and Min Yang

123

The Research and Realization of the Science Feed Management System in Islamic Livestock Norm Production and Quality Attestation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rong Ren and Wenxing Bao

132

The Simulation of the Apple Tree Form’s Effects on Its Photosynthetic Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lin Hu, Guomin Zhou, and Yun Qiu

138

The Spatial and Temporal Prognosis of Oilseed Yield in Shandong Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yujian Yang, Jianhua Zhu, Shubo Wan, and Xiaoyan Zhang

146

The Study and Implementation of Agricultural Information Service System Based on Addressable Broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huoguo Zheng, Haiyan Hu, Shihong Liu, and Hong Meng

158

The Study of Quality and Safety Traceability System of Vegetable Produce of Hebei Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fangzhou Wang and Wensheng Sun

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The Study on Building of Virtual Reality System in Large Surface Coal Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baoying Ye, Nisha Bao, and Zhongke Bai

173

The Study on Navel Orange Traceability Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huoguo Zheng, Xianxue Meng, and Shihong Liu

179

The Study on the Organization Approach of Agricultural Model Components Library Based on Topic Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haiyan Jiang, Bing Fu, Mei Zhang, Yan Zhu, and Weixin Cao

186

Theory of Double Sampling Applied to Main Crops Acreage Monitoring at National Scale Based on 3S in China—CT316 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quan Wu, Li Sun, Fei Wang, and Shaorong Jia

198

Three-Dimensional Visualization of Soil Electrical Conductivity Variation by VRML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongyi Li

212

Towards Developing an Edible Fungi Factory HACCP MIS Base on RFID Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yunsheng Wang, Shipu Xu, ChangZhao Wan, Jihong Cheng, Qian Guo, Juan Yang, and Jingying Zhao

222

Toxicity of Cu, Pb, and Zn on Seed Germination and Young Seedlings of Wheat (Triticum Aestivum L.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haiou Wang, Guangrong Zhong, Guoqing Shi, and Fangting Pan

231

Using Data Grid Technology to Build MODIS Data Management System in Agriculture Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yi Zeng and Guoqing Li

241

Virtual Prototype Modeling and Simulating Analysis of Lotus Root Slicing Machine Based on ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jianping Hu, Jing Wang, Yinsa Huang, and Enzhu Wei

249

Virtual Reality and the Application in Virtual Experiment for Agricultural Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yu Zang, Zhongxiang Zhu, Zhenghe Song, and Enrong Mao

257

Virtual Visualization System for Growth of Tobacco Root . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lei Xi, Shuping Xiong, Yanna Ren, Qiang Wang, Juan Yang, Longlong Zhang, and Xinming Ma Winter Wheat Quality Inspection and Regionalization Based on NIR Network and Remote Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaodong Yang, WenJiang Huang, Cunjun Li, Xingang Xu, and Hao Yang

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A Web-Based Monitoring System as a Measurement Tool in Greenhouses Using Wireless Sensor Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yuling Shi, Zhongyi Wang, Xu Liu, Dongjie Zhao, and Lan Huang

289

Analysis and Design on Decision Support System of Security Risk Management in Rural Power Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dongsheng Zhou and Tao Yang

298

Analysis on the Factors Causing the Real-Time Image Blurry and Development of Methods for the Image Restoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jianhua Zhang, Ronghua Ji, Kaiqun Hu, Xue Yuan, Hui Li, and Lijun Qi

304

Application Analysis of Machine Vision Technology in the Agricultural Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yang Yang, Yang Zhang, and Tian He

316

Comparative Study of Methods of Risks Assessment in Rural Power Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaoqiang Song and Tao Yang

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A Circuit Module and CPLD Laser Ground Controller Based on RS485 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xinlei Li, Gang Liu, Mingming Guo, Yin Liu, and Fei Yang

327

Design of Decision Support System for Mechanical Conservation Tillage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Junjing Yuan, Jian Zhang, and Hongzhen Cai

341

Experimental Study on the Quality of Dutch Cucumber in Storage . . . . . Jingying Tan, Dan Jin, and Qing Wang

347

GIS-Based Evaluation of Soybean Growing Areas Suitability in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wenying He, Sen Yang, Rui Guo, Yaxiong Chen, Weihong Zhou, Chaojie Jia, and Guojun Sun

357

Goal-Driven Workflow Generation Based on AI Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yinxue Shi, Minghao Yang, and Ruizhi Sun

367

Mobile Phones of 3G Era in Small and Medium-Sized Agricultural Production and Application Prospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yang Yang, Tian He, and Yang Zhang

375

Research of Dynamic Identification Technology on Cotton Foreign Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shuangxi Liu, Wenxiu Zheng, Hengbin Li, and Jinxing Wang

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Research on Acquisition Methods of High-Precision DEM for Distributed Hydrological Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Li Deng, Yong Liang, and Chengming Zhang Research on Image Classification Algorithm Based on Artificial Immune Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chengming Zhang, Yong Liang, ShuJing Wan, Jinping Sun, and Dalei Zhang

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403

Short-Term Load Forecasting Based on RS-ART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tao Yang, Feng Zhang, Qingji Li, and Ping Yang

413

Study on Delineation of Irrigation Management Zones Based on Management Zone Analyst Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qiuxiang Jiang, Qiang Fu, and Zilong Wang

419

Study on Irrigation Regime of Double Cropping of Winter Wheat with Summer Maize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shengfeng Wang, Jianxin Xu, Shuqin Yang, and Ping Jia

428

Study on Model of Risk Assessment of Standard Operation in Rural Power Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qingji Li and Tao Yang

440

Study on Refrigeratory Compressor with Frequency Conversion and Its Economical Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Jin, Jingying Tan, and Qing Wang

445

Study on the Parameters’ Acquisition Method of Distributed Hydrological Model Based on RS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jinping Sun, Yong Liang, Qin Yan, and Chengming Zhang

452

The Design and Implementation of Halal Beef Wholly Quality Traceability System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yongsheng Yang and Wenxing Bao

464

The Development of Remote Labor Training System for Rural Small Towns Based on MVC Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lihua Zheng, Dongmei Zhao, Nan Zhou, Xiaobing Qiu, Li Xu, Shicong Wang, and Zhong Qiao WEB-Based Intelligent Diagnosis System for Cotton Diseases Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hui Li, Ronghua Ji, Jianhua Zhang, Xue Yuan, Kaiqun Hu, and Lijun Qi Wetland Information Extraction from RS Image Based on Wavelet Packet and the Active Learning Support Vector Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pu Wang and Wenxing Bao

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A Research to Construct the Interactive Platform for Integrated Information of Agricultural Products in China Xinjiang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yuan Li and Zhigang Li Modeling Spatial Pattern of Precipitation with GIS and Multivariate Geostatistical Methods in Chongqing Tobacco Planting Region, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xuan Wang, Jiake Lv, Chaofu Wei, and Deti Xie

500

512

Prediction of Freight Ability in Country Base on GRNN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baihua Zhang

525

Research and Application of Modern Information Technology in the Forest Plant Protection Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lairong Chen, Qingchun Wang, and Ronghua Ji

532

Research on Information Sharing Pattern of Agricultural Products Supply Chain Based on E-Commerce Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhigang Li, Yang Gao, Yuan Li, and Jinyu Han

539

Study of Intelligent Integrated Modeling and Development of Agricultural Post-Project Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chen Li

549

Study of Optimal Operation for Huai’an Parallel Pumping Stations with Adjustable-Blade Units Based on Two Stages Decomposition-Dynamic Programming Aggregation Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yi Gong, Jilin Cheng, Rentian Zhang, and Lihua Zhang TBIS: A Web-Based Expert System for Identification of Tephritid Fruit Flies in China Based on DNA Barcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhimei Li, Zhihong Li, Fuxiang Wang, Wei Lin, and Jiajiao Wu TPPADS: An Expert System Based on Multi-branch Structure for Tianjin Planting Pest Assistant Diagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhigang Wu, Yichuan Bai, Han Huang, Wenxin Li, Zhimei Li, and Zhihong Li

554

563

572

Study on the Demands for Agricultural and Rural Informationization in China and Its Strategic Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jin Li, Chunjiang Zhao, Xiangyang Qin, and Gang Liu

580

Study on the Near Infrared Model Development of Mixed Liquid Samples by the Algorithm of OSC-PLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dong Wang, Zhihong Ma, Shengfeng Ye, and Shungeng Min

592

Design and Realization of Information Service System of Agricultural Expert Based on Wireless Mobile Communication Technology . . . . . . . . . Jianshe Zhao, Wenyue Li, Yong Yang, Haili Meng, and Wen Huang

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Design of a New Soil-Tuber Separation Device on Potato Harvesters . . . . Gaili Gao, Dongxing Zhang, and Jun Liu

604

Fast Discrimination of Nanfeng Mandarin Varieties Based on Near Infrared Spectroscopy Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huamao Zhou, Chao Zhou, Honghui Rao, and Yande Liu

613

Purity Identification of Maize Seed Based on Color Characteristics . . . . . Xiaomei Yan, Jinxing Wang, Shuangxi Liu, and Chunqing Zhang

620

Reconstructing Vegetation Temperature Condition Index Based on the Savitzky–Golay Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manman Li and Junming Liu

629

Research and Implementation of Agricultural Science and Technology Consulting System Based on Ajax and Improved VSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sufen Sun, Junfeng Zhang, Changshou Luo, and Qingfeng Wei

638

Empirical Study on the Relationship between ICT Application and China Agriculture Economic Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pengju He, Shihong Liu, Huoguo Zheng, and Yunpeng Cui

648

The Research of the Agricultural Technology Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JinYou Hu, Jingjing Zhang, and Jian Zhang

656

Research on the Collaboration Service Mechanism for Pig Diseases Diagnosis Based on Semantic Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiang Sun, Huarui Wu, Huaji Zhu, Cheng Peng, and Jingqiu Gu

661

Prediction of Vegetable Price Based on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changshou Luo, Qingfeng Wei, Liying Zhou, Junfeng Zhang, and Sufen Sun Research on the Application Integration Model for the Agricultural Enterprise of Integrative Production and Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feng Yang, Xiandi Zhang, Zhongqiang Liu, Zhenzhi Wang, and Kaiyi Wang A SaaS-Based Logistics Informatization Model for Specialized Farmers Cooperatives in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhongqiang Liu, Kaiyi Wang, Shufeng Wang, Feng Yang, and Xiandi Zhang

672

682

696

Study on Acoustic Features of Laying Hens’ Vocalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ligen Yu, Guanghui Teng, Zhizhong Li, and Xuming Liu

704

A Study on Pig Slaughter Traceability Solution Based on RFID . . . . . . . . Qingyao Luo, Benhai Xiong, Zhi Geng, Liang Yang, and Jiayi Pan

710

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Study on Application of Location Algorithm Base Multidimensional Spatial Information in the Situation Analysis of Natural Ecology . . . . . . . Jumei Ai and Shuhua Mao

721

A Water-Quality Dynamic Monitoring System Based on Web-Server-Embedded Technology for Aquaculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dongxian He, Daoliang Li, Jie Bao, Hu Juanxiu, and Shaokun Lu

725

A Study on Operation Strategies of Unclogging Container-Trailers Enterprises at Shenzhen Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaoliang Gao and Nie Dan

732

Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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A Compression Method of Decision Table Based on Matrix Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Laipeng Luo and Ergen Liu

1

A Laplacian of Gaussian-Based Approach for Spot Detection in Two-Dimensional Gel Electrophoresis Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feng He, Bangshu Xiong, Chengli Sun, and Xiaobin Xia

8

A Leaf Layer Spectral Model for Estimating Protein Content of Wheat Grains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chun-Hua Xiao, Shao-Kun Li, Ke-Ru Wang, Yan-Li Lu, Jun-Hua Bai, Rui-Zhi Xie, Shi-Ju Gao, Qiong Wang, and Fang-Yong Wang

16

A New Color Information Entropy Retrieval Method for Pathological Cell Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiangang Jiang, Qing Liang, and Tao Shen

30

A New Palm-Print Image Feature Extraction Method Based on Wavelet Transform and Principal Component Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jia wei Li and Ming Sun

39

A Non-linear Model of Nondestructive Estimation of Anthocyanin Content in Grapevine Leaves with Visible/Red-Infrared Hyperspectral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JiangLin Qin, Donald Rundquist, Anatoly Gitelson, Zongkun Tan, and Mark Steele

47

Application of Improved BP Neural Network in Controlling the Constant-Force Grinding Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhaoxia Chen, Bailin He, and Xianfeng Xu

63

A Semantic Middleware of Grain Storage Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Siquan Hu, Haiou Wang, Chundong She, and Junfeng Wang

71

AE Feature Analysis on Welding Crack Defects of HG70 Steel Used by Truck Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yantao Dou, Xiaoli Xu, Wei Wang, and Siqin Pang

78

An Equilateral Triangle Waveguide Beam Splitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhimin Liu, Fengqi Zhou, Hongjian Li, Bin Tang, Zhengfang Liu, Qingping Wu, Aixi Chen, and Kelin Huang

89

Analysis and Implementation of Embedded SNMP Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hubin Deng, Guiyuan Liu, and Lei Zhang

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Application of Computer Technology in Advanced Material Science and Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yajuan Liu

103

Application of Interferometry in Ultrasonic System for Vibration . . . . . . . Zhengping Liu, Shenghang Xu, and Juanjuan Liu

108

Automatic Control System for Highway Tunnel Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shijuan Fan, Chao Yang, and Zhiwei Wang

116

Comparative Study of Distance Discriminant Analysis and Bp Neural Network for Identification of Rapeseed Cultivars Using Visible/Near Infrared Spectra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qiang Zou, Hui Fang, Fei Liu, Wenwen Kong, and Yong He Current Situation and Prospect of Grassland Management Decision Support Systems in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qingwei Duan, Xiaoping Xin, Guixia Yang, Baorui Chen, Hongbin Zhang, Yuchun Yan, Xu Wang, Baohui Zhang, and Gang Li

124

134

Design Method and Implementation of Ternary Logic Optical Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chunzhi Li and Junyong Yan

147

Design of Automatic Cutting and Welding Machine for Brake Beam-Axle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leping Liu, Mingdong Zhong, and Qizheng Dong

167

Design of Multifunction Vehicle Bus Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhongqi Li, Fengping Yang, and Qirong Xing

177

Detection of Soil Total Nitrogen by Vis-SWNIR Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . Yaoze Feng, Xiaoyu Li, Wei Wang, and Changju Liu

184

Development and Application of Tennis Match Video Retrieval Technology in Multimedia Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shehua Cao

192

Fault Diagnosis of Roller Bearing Based on PCA and Multi-class Support Vector Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guifeng Jia, Shengfa Yuan, and Chengwen Tang

198

Health Status Identification of Connecting Rod Bearing Based on Support Vector Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yongbin Liu, Qingbo He, Ping Zhang, Zhongkui Zhu, and Fanrang Kong Investigation of the Methods for Tool Wear On-Line Monitoring during the Cutting Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hongjiang Chen

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Magnetic-Field-Based 3D ETREE Modelling for Multi-Frequency Eddy Current Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yu Zhang and Yong Li

221

Measurement of Self-emitting Magnetic Signals from a Precut Notch of Q235 Steel during Tensile Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lihong Dong, Binshi Xu, and Shiyun Dong

231

Modeling and Performance Analysis of Giant Magnetostrictive Microgripper with Flexure Hinge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qinghua Cao, Quanguo Lu, Junmei Xi, Jianwu Yan, and Changbao Chu Non-destructive Measurement of Sugar Content in Chestnuts Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jie Liu, Xiaoyu Li, Peiwu Li, Wei Wang, Jun Zhang, Wei Zhou, and Zhu Zhou

237

246

Nondestructive Testing Technology and Optimization of On-Service Urea Reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaoling Luo and Lei Deng

255

Parameters Turning of the Active-Disturbance Rejection Controller Based on RBF Neural Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Baifen Liu and Ying Gao

260

Research of Intelligent Gas Detecting System for Coal Mine . . . . . . . . . . . Hui Chen

268

Research of Subway’s Train Control System Based on TCN . . . . . . . . . . . Qingfeng Ding, Fengping Yang, and Qixin Zhu

279

Shape Detection for Impeller Blades by Non-contact Coordinate Measuring Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shimin Luo

286

Simulation of Road Surface Roughness Based on the Piecewise Fractal Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhixiong Lu, Lanying Zhao, Xiaoqin Li, and Jun Yuan

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Stress Analysis near the Welding Interface Edges of a QFP Structure under Thermal Loading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhigang Huang, Xuecheng Ping, and Pingan Liu

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Study of Intelligent Diagnosis System for Mechanism Wear Fault Based on Fuzzy-Neural Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanmao Xie

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Study on Autonomous Path Planning by Mobile Robot for Road Nondestructive Testing Based on GPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lunhui Xu, Fan Ye, and Yanguo Huang

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Study on Imitating Grinding of Two-Dimensional Ultrasonic Vibration Turning System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leping Liu, Wen Zhao, and Yuan Ma

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Study on Optimal Path Changing Tools in CNC Turret Typing Machine Based on Genetic Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Min Liu, XiaoLing Ding, YinFa Yan, and Xin Ci

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Study on the Problem and Countermeasure of Fruit Production Quality and Safety in Yanshan Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haisheng Gao, Bin Du, and Fengmei Zhu

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Calculation and Analysis of Double-Axis Elliptical-Parabolic Compond Flexure Hinge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ping’ an Liu, Jianqun Cheng, and Zhigang Lai

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Surface Distresses Detection of Pavement Based on Digital Image Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aiguo Ouyang, Chagen Luo, and Chao Zhou

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The Application Research of Neural Network in Embedded Intelligent Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaodong Liu, Dongzhou Ning, Hubin Deng, and Jinhua Wang

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The Theoretical Analysis of Test Result’s Errors for the Roller Type Automobile Brake Tester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jun Li, Xiaojing Zha, and Dongsheng Wu

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A Type of Arithmetic Labels about Circulating Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ergen Liu, Dan Wu, and Kewen Cai

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Application of CPLD in Pulse Power for EDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yang Yang and Yanqing Zhao

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Application of IDL and ENVI Redevelopment in Hyperspectral Image Preprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Long Xue

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Design of Integrated Error Compensating System for the Portable Flexible CMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qing-Song Cao, Jie Zhu, Zhi-Fan Gao, and Guo-Liang Xiong

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Detecting and Analyzing System for the Vibration Comfort of Car Seats Based on LabVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ying Qiu

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Determination of Pesticide Residues on the Surface of Fruits Using Micro-Raman Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yande Liu and Tao Liu

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Development of the Meter for Measuring Pork Quality Based on the Electrical Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhen Xing, Wengang Zheng, Changjun Shen, and Xin Zhang

435

Experimental Investigation of Influence on Non-destructive Testing by Form of Eddy Current Sensor Probe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fengyun Xie and Jihui Zhou

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Feasibility of Coordinate Measuring System Based on Wire Driven Robot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ji-Hui Zhou, Qing-Song Cao, Fa-Xiong Sun, and Lan Bi

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HSFDONES: A Self-Leaning Ontology-Based Fault Diagnosis Expert System Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XiangBin Xu

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Nondestructive Measurement of Sugar Content in Navel Orange Based on Vis-NIR Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chunsheng Luo, Long Xue, Muhua Liu, Jing Li, and Xiao Wang

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Numerical Simulation of Temperature Field in Selective Laser Sintering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jian Zhang, Deying Li, Jianyun Li, and Longzhi Zhao

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Numerical Simulations of Compression Properties of SiC/Al Co-continuous Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mingjuan Zhao, Na Li, Longzhi Zhao, and Xiaolan Zhang

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Simulation and Optimization in Production Logistics Based on eM-Plant Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XinJian Zhou, XiangBin Xu, and Wei Zhu

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Simulation of Transient Temperature Field in the Selective Laser Sintering Process of W/Ni Powder Mixture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jiwen Ren, Jianshu Liu, and Jinju Yin

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Study on Plant Nutrition Indicator Using Leaf Spectral Transmittance for Nitrogen Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Juanxiu Hu, Dongxian He, and Po Yang

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Study on the Influence of Non-electrical Parameters on Processing Quality of WEDM-HS and Improvement Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guangyao Xiong, Meizhu Zheng, Deying Li, Longzhi Zhao, Yanlin Wang, and Minghui Li

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Test Analysis and Theoretical Calculation on Braking Distance of Automobile with ABS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dongsheng Wu, Jun Li, Xiaoping Shu, Xiaojing Zha, and Beili Xu The Detection of Early-Maturing Pear’s Effective Acidity Based on Hyperspectral Imaging Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pengbo Miao, Long Xue, Muhua Liu, Jing Li, Xiao Wang, and Chunsheng Luo The Effects of Internal and External Factors on the Mechanical Behavior of the Foam Copper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Longzhi Zhao, Xiaolan Zhang, Na Li, Mingjuan Zhao, and Jian Zhang

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Optimum Design of Runner System for Router Cover Based on Mold Flow Analysis Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tangqing Kuang and Wenjuan Gu

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Design of Tread Flange Injection Mold Based on Pro/E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huilan Zhou

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Study on the Online Control System to Prevent Drunk Driving Based on Photoelectric Detection Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lu Liming, Yang Yuchuan, and Lu Jinfu

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The Design and Simulation of Electro-Hydraulic Velocity Control System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fengtao Lin

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Application of Background Information Database in Trend Change of Agricultural Land Area of Guangxi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xin Yang, Shiquan Zhong, Yuhong Li, Weiping Lu, and Chaohui Wu

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Reasons of the Incremental Information in the Updating Spatial Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huaji Zhu, Huarui Wu, and Xiang Sun

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Research on Non-point Source Pollution Based on Spatial Information Technology: A Case Study in Qingdao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tao Shen, Jinheng Zhang, and Junqiang Wang

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The Regulation Analysis of Low-Carbon Orientation for China Land Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bikai Gong and Bing Chen

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A CDMA-Based Soil-Quality Monitoring System for Mineland Reclamation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dongxian He, Daoliang Li, Jie Bao, and Shaokun Lu

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Design and Implementation of a Low-Power ZigBee Wireless Temperature Humidity Sensor Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shuipeng Gong, Changli Zhang, Lili Ma, Junlong Fang, and Shuwen Wang Land Evaluation Supported by MDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fengchang Xue Design and Development of Water Quality Monitoring System Based on Wireless Sensor Network in Aquaculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mingfei Zhang, Daoliang Li, Lianzhi Wang, Daokun Ma, and Qisheng Ding

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Design of an Intelligent PH Sensor for Aquaculture Industry . . . . . . . . . . . Haijiang Tai, Qisheng Ding, Daoliang Li, and Yaoguang Wei

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A Simple Temperature Compensation Method for Turbidity Sensor . . . . . Haijiang Tai, Daoliang Li, Yaoguang Wei, Daokun Ma, and Qisheng Ding

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A Wireless Intelligent Valve Controller for Agriculture Integrated Irrigation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nannan Wen, Daoliang Li, Daokun Ma, and Qisheng Ding

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Evaluation of the Rural Informatization Level in Central China Based on Catastrophe Progression Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lingxian Zhang, Xue Liu, Zetian Fu, and Daoliang Li

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GIS-Based Evaluation on the Eco-Demonstration Construction in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lingxian Zhang, Juncheng Ma, Daoliang Li, and Zetian Fu

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Modeling and Analysis of Pollution-Free Agricultural Regulatory Based on Petri-Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fang Wang, Qingling Duan, Lingzi Zhang, and Guo Li

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An Online Image Segmentation Method for Foreign Fiber Detection in Lint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daohong Kan, Daoliang Li, Wenzhu Yang, and Xin Zhang

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An Efficient Iterative Thresholding Algorithms for Color Images of Cotton Foreign Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xin Zhang, Daoliang Li, Wenzhu Yang, Jinxing Wang, and Shuangxi Liu Application of Grey Prediction Model in Rural Informatization Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jing Du, Daoliang Li, Hongwen Li, and Lifeng Shen

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Study on Evaluation Method for Chinese Agricultural Informatization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xiaoqing Yuan, Liyong Liu, and Daoliang Li

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Research on Calculation Method for Agricultural Informatization Contribution Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liyong Liu, Qilong Pan, and Daoliang Li

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An Empirical Research on the Evaluation Index Regarding the Service Quality of Agricultural Information Websites in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liyong Liu, Xiaoqing Yuan, and Daoliang Li

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Hyperspectral Sensing Techniques Applied to Bio-masses Characterization: The Olive Husk Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giuseppe Bonifazi and Silvia Serranti

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3-D Turbulence Numerical Simulation for the Flow Field of Suction Cylinder-Seeder with Socket-Slots* Yanjun Zuo1, Xu Ma1,2,**, Long Qi1, and Xinglong Liao1 1

College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P.R. China 2 Key Laboratory of Key Technology on Agricultural Machine and Equipment, Ministry of Education, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P.R. China [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. The flow field has significantly impact on seeding performance in the suction seeding device. A three-dimensional, incompressible, viscous, RNG turbulence model and the SIMPLE method were used by computational fluid dynamics(CFD), and the flow fields of suction cylinder-seeder with different socket’s radiuses were simulated by Fluent. When vacuum is 4kPa and productivity is 350 trays/h, the simulant results show that pressure is uniform, velocity is stable, energy loss mainly occurs near slots and outlet, and there is less interaction among socket-slots; The effect of flow field on socket’s radius to the cylinder isn’t significant by contrasting different socket’s radiuses on the average turbulent kinetic energy, the average vacuum and the maximum difference of velocity behind slots; The experimental results show that the best seeding performance is 84.73% when the socket’s radius is 5.5mm. Although the performance should be improved, but any sockets are never plugged, which shows enough that the seeder is a very promising precision seeding device. Keywords: Socket-slot, Suction cylinder, Flow field, Numerical simulation.

1 Introduction Usually, the demand of high-precision seeding is 2±1 seeds/bowl for super hybrid rice tray nursing seedlings, and can’t be satisfied invariably by the traditional mechanical seeding device. The suction seeding device is becoming mainstream for super hybrid rice with its advantage of low broken-seed rate, high single-seed rate, good generality, imprecise demand of seminal dimension and so on[1-2]. Flow field impacts seeding performance significantly in the suction seeding device, so it has been studied by many researchers at home and aboard. In overseas, Karayel D etc. have built mathematical model of vacuum pressure on a precision seeder[3], Guarella P etc. have studied the performance of a vacuum seeder nozzle for vegetable seeds in experiment and *

The paper is supported by the National Natural Science Fund Projects (Project number is 50775078), the National “11th Five-Year Plan” to support Projects (Project number is 2006BAD28B01-3), the earmarked fund for Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System and the fund for indraught of person with ability in colleges of Guangdong. ** Corresponding author. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 1–8, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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theory[4]. In domestic, Yuan Yueming, Wang Zhaohui etc. have simulated and experimented the flow field for suction seeders of vertical disc and cylinder[5-6], Li Yaoming etc. have analyzed the flow field of sucking nozzle to suction seeder[7]. Suckers of existing suction seeding devices are usually plugged during seeding because rice is seeded with sprout. Although two-layer suction cylinder-seeder is developed by Pang Changle[8] and could relieve the suckers plugging, it can not satisfied the requirement of continuous seeding. So a seeding device will be developed with a new theory and new structure to solve this problem. Based on the traditional suction cylinders, a suction cylinder-seeder with socket-slots is developed which can solve the problem of suckers plugging effectively through seed-filling, seed-sucking, seedclearing and forcible sucker-clearing. In order to improve the seeding performance of suction cylinder-seeder with socket-slots, the numerical simulations for different socket’s radiuses have been calculated by software Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in this paper. Socket’s radius was optimized by analyzing the distributions of velocity and pressure inside the cylinder, and checked by experiment. This study provides theoretical and practical basis for the design of super hybrid rice seed-metering device for nursing seedling.

2 Principle of Suction Cylinder-Seeder The suction cylinder-seeder with socket-slots for experiment is shown in figure 1. After flowing out of the seed hopper, rice seeds fall onto vibrant board. Then the

Fig. 1. Principe diagram of suction cylinder-seeder with socket-slots 1 Seed-protecting belt, 2 Seed-clearing rolling brush, 3 Suction vibrator, 4 Vibrant board, 5 Seed hopper, 6 Frame, 7 Conveyor belt, 8 Tray, 9 Pressure chamber, 10 Seed-popping springs, 11 Rice seeds, 12 Cylinder

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seeds worm downward along with vibrant board under vibration and enter seedsucking area where prickle, broken sprout and other impurities are removed through the sieve meshes. The seed-feeding is accomplished under the gravity and vacuum. When the sockets rotate to seed-clearing area, the redundant seeds are cleared firstly by seed-clearing rolling brush rotating at the same direction with cylinder, and the residual seeds in sockets rotate into seed-protecting belt continually. The vacuum will be cut off when the sockets rotate into seeding and socket- clearing area, the springs pop the seeds and clear the sockets forcibly. The seeds fall into the appointed bowl under the gravity and elasticity, so realizing the precision seeding.

3 Numerical Simulation 3.1 Physical Model Along the axis, fifteen rows of sockets(R=4.5mm, 5.0mm, 5.5mm) that corresponding to the tray of 15×25 bowls are made outside cylinder. Along the circumference,

Fig. 2. Structure of cylinder

Fig. 3. Computational model of cylinder

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fifteen ring grooves are also made at the corresponding place of the sockets inside cylinder. The sockets and ring grooves are intersecting and forming a slot of 4.0mm. The specific dimensions are shown in figure 2. Because there are larger differences in local sizes, the model uses structured and unstructured grids to mesh, as is shown in figure 3. 3.2 Flow Equations Rotation of cylinder, two different flow fields which are connected by socket-slots and the effect of air viscidity, so turbulent swirling flow is formed starting from inlet of socket-slots nearby the insides of cylinder and socket-slots, and contains laminar flow and swirly shear flow at the wall of cylinder, jet flow of slots, free flow in the pipeline, flow with separation and so on. In order to ensure the accuracy of numerical simulation, turbulence model of RNG k-ε is used in this paper. In the model flow state, spatial coordinates, rotation and swirling flow state in the average flow have been considered, turbulent viscosity has been modified. And the model supplied an analytical formula with low Reynolds number which is more accuracy than standard equation of k-ε to the flow of near wall[9]. Turbulent kinetic energy and turbulent dissipation rate were calculated as follows: ∂ ∂ ∂ ∂k ( ρk ) + ( ρku i ) = (α k μ e ) + Gk + G p − ρε ∂t ∂x j ∂x j ∂x j ε ∂ ∂ ∂ ∂ε ( ρε ) + ( ρεui ) = (α ε μ e ) + (C1ε Gk − C 2ε ρε ) ∂t ∂xi ∂x j ∂x j k

(1) (2)

Where: k is the turbulent kinetic energy in m2/s2; ε is the turbulent dissipation rate in m2/s3; Gk is the generation item for turbulent kinetic energy(k) caused by average velocity gradient; Gp is the generation item for turbulent kinetic energy(k) caused by buoyancy; and μe is the turbulent viscosity in Pa·s, and μe=ρCμk2/s. Model constants[10] are C1ε=1.42, C2ε=1.68, Cμ=0.0845, αk=αε=1.39. 3.3 Boundary Condition The fluid is normal temperature air under standard condition, and its density is 1.205kg/m3, viscosity is 1.83×10-5Pa·s, and temperature is 293K, so the inlet and standard pressures are all 101325 Pa. The pressure inlet and outlet are all subsonic speed, and the wall uses adiabatic and no-slip boundary conditions[11].

4 Simulation Results and Analyses Numerical simulations for suction cylinder-seeder with three socket’s radiuses (R=4.5mm, 5.0 mm, 5.5 mm) use the method of semi-implicit method for pressurelinked equations(SIMPLE) when outlet pressure is 97325Pa and productivity is 350 trays/h, and the results are shown in figure 4 and table 1.

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R=4.5mm R=5.0mm R=5.5mm Map of pressure

Map of velocity

Fig. 4. Distribution map of pressure and velocity

From the map of pressure in the figure 4, it can be known that pressure distributes uniformly in the whole cylinder and changes greatly at the slots and the outlet. The main reason is that, air fluid can’t turn suddenly like the wall as the inertial force is dominating when section of pipeline changes suddenly, disengage phenomena of main flow area and wall is occurring, and then swirling area forms. Distributional adjustment of velocity in main flow area, rotation of fluid in the swirling area and exchange of fluid particle in the two areas, all these lose energy, so energy loss occurs near the slots and outlet. From the map of velocity in the figure 4, it can be known that velocity is stable inside the cylinder, air fluids flow through socket-slots and have less interaction in the axial and circumference. Table 1. Contrast of different socket’s radiuses

R(mm)

ka(m2/s2)

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vmax(m/s)

4.5

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2.10

13.98

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1.88

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Note: ka is the average turbulent kinetic energy; Va is the average vacuum behind slots; and vmax is the maximum difference of velocity behind slots.

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The contrasts of different socket’s radiuses on average turbulent kinetic energy, average vacuum and maximum difference of velocity after slot are shown in table 1. It can be known that: average turbulent kinetic energy increases along with the increases of socket’s radius, because the bigger socket’s radius, the stronger turbulization, the more significant effect of flow on eddy current, and the less stable flow field; average vacuum decreases along with the increases of socket’s radius, because the bigger socket’s radius, the more friction loss when air fluid through socket-slots; maximum difference of velocity decreases along with the increases of socket’s radius, because the bigger socket’s radius, the longer distance of air fluid pass socket-slots, the smaller difference of velocity, and the more stable seed-sucking; the effect of flow field on socket’s radius isn’t significant. The amount of seed-feeding is affected by socket’s radius, so the seeding performance would be checked.

5 Conclusions 5.1 Experimental Material The experimental material is super hybrid rice of Peizataifeng. Its dimension is shown in table 2. Table 2. Dimensions of gemmative rice seed Length(mm)

Width(mm)

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5.2 Experimental Procedures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Rice seeds are soaked and germinated. The suction vibrator provides a stable pressure of 0.2MPa through fan setting. Vacuum of 4kPa is got by vacuum pump setting. The productivity of 350 trays/h is obtained by converter adjusting. The seed-clearing rolling brush starts and rotates at the same direction with cylinder, and its speed of 50rpm. 6. The seeds are put into seed hopper and vibrator starts, the vibrant board begins vibrating. And then the seed hopper starts and begins feeding seeds to the cylinder. Finally, seeding is experimented after the running is stable. 5.3 Experimental Factor According to the result analyses which were simulated by Fluent, control variable method is used to study the effect of seeding performance on socket’s radius, and the results of numerical simulation were checked.

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5.4 Experimental Plan and Results The experiment has been done on the test-bed for nursing seedling at College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University. The main index is qualified rate (bowls of 1~3 seeds/all bowls ×100%))to be examined. The results are shown in table 3. Table 3. Experimental results

R(mm)

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Rr(%)

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4.5

78.89

16.47

4.64

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81.69

11.74

6.57

5.5

84.73

6.31

8.96

Note: Rq is the qualified rate, Rr is the reseeding rate, and Rc is the cavity rate. It can be known from table 3 that, when socket’s radius is smaller, the seeds get in the sockets uneasier and are removed easier by seed-clearing rolling brush and the cavity rate is higher; when socket’s radius is bigger, the amount of seeds enter the sockets is larger and the reseeding rate is higher; the rising extent of reseeding rate is less than the falling extent of cavity rate because of seeding-clearing rolling brush, so the qualified rate increases along with the increases of socket’s radius. The seeding performance of suction cylinder-seeder with socket-slots is the highest(84.73%) when the socket’s radius is 5.5mm.

6 Conclusions Through the simulation and experiment of different socket’s radiuses when the vacuum is 4kPa and the productivity is 350trays/h, the conclusions are obtained as follows: 1 The distribution of pressure is uniform, velocity is stable, energy loss occurs mainly near the slots and outlet, and air fluid has less interaction among the slots in the cylinder. 2 The effect of flow field on socket’s radius is not significant to the cylinder, and the seeding performance is checked. 3 The experimental results show that the best seeding performance of suction cylinder-seeder is 84.73% when the socket’s radius is 5.5mm. In fact, there are many factors affecting the seeding performance, such as vacuum, productivity and positional angle of seed-feeding. Each factor is not the optimum as preliminary study, so the capability is not high at present, and will be studied further. There isn’t any sockets that are plugged in the whole process of experiment, which

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shows that the suction cylinder-seeder with socket-slots is a very promising precision seeding device.

Acknowledgements The paper is supported by the National Natural Science Fund Projects (Project number is 50775078), the National “11th Five-Year Plan” to support Projects (Project number is 2006BAD28B01-3), the earmarked fund for Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System and the fund for indraught of person with ability in colleges of Guangdong.

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An Architecture for the Agricultural Machinery Intelligent Scheduling in Cross-Regional Work Based on Cloud Computing and Internet of Things Sun Zhiguo1,2, Xia Hui3, and Wang Wensheng1,2 1

Agricultural Information Institute, The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China 2 Key Laboratory of Digital Agricultural Early-warning Technology (2006-2010), Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China 3 National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, P.R. China [email protected]

Abstract. The paper introduces the problems in china’s agricultural machinery information. We provide an architecture for the agricultural machinery intelligent scheduling in cross-regional work. We put forward constructing the private cloud of agricultural machinery with the aid of cloud computing technology, and forward agricultural machinery will link together through Internet of Things technology. We provide an information platform and simplified it to three components including information service system, communication line and monitoring front-end equipment machine carrying. We also describes two modes to realize the intelligent scheduling function of agricultural machinery cross-regional working. Keywords: Agricultural machinery, Cross-regional work, Intelligent scheduling, Cloud computing, Internet of Things, GPS, Bei-dou.

1 Introduction The agricultural mechanization is a key measure to improve efficiency of agriculture production. The agricultural mechanization of china has grown increasingly, presented a good situation of fast and sound development since 2000. Today, the agricultural machinery with high performance and big power and compound working keeps high speed growth, the structure of agricultural machinery equipment has made a remarkable improvement, and the level of farmland working mechanization has risen considerably. In recent years, the informationization construction of agricultural machinery has developed to some extent in our country, and information network services are further provided too. But because the informationization construction of agricultural machinery started later in China, the whole level is still lower, there exists differences especially in the development and utilization of agricultural machinery information resource, comparing with developed countries and other domestic industries. The D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 9–15, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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negative effects of unrestricted flows of agricultural machines begin to show gradually. The situation of gathering and loss of control may occur sometimes, and cause society instability incidents. The unrestricted flows of agricultural machines are as follows: 1. wasting energy; 2. lower working efficiency; 3. instability in service prices; 4. increasing traffic pressure; 5. the damage of fields water conservancy facilities resulted by repeat movement; 6. no farm machines and implements to hire in some remote areas. We will construct an advanced intelligent scheduling platform for agricultural machinery cross-regional working with advanced communication and information technologies such as Internet, mobile telephone, fixed-line telephone, 3G, GPS, Bei-Dou satellite navigation system, cloud computing and Internet of Things and so on, to implement the guidance and service of administrative departments to agricultural mechanization production, promote the restricted and efficient flows of agricultural machinery, improve the utilization and benefit of agricultural machinery, provide alldirectional services for agricultural machinery users and farm households.

2 Functions The platform can command and dispatch farm machines and implements to execute cross-regional working and accomplish the tasks of tillage and cultivation and harvest according to the factors such as crop mature time, weather, farm machines distribution in different areas of our country. It can realize various functions including inquiry of farm machines position, track review, information reception and release, state monitoring of farm machines, failure remote diagnosis of farm machines, inquiry of maintenance and oil supply sites, and measure of farmland area and estimation of crop yields.

3 Architecture Design 3.1 Design of Overall Information Network Architecture We will construct an advanced intelligent scheduling platform consisting of information system, database, users at all levels and farm machines for agricultural machinery cross-regional working. The information system and database will be constructed and monitored uniformly by central government with the aid of cloud computing technology and constructing the private cloud of agricultural machinery, namely agricultural machinery cloud that will control all computing resource of information system and storage resource of database. The system users consist of agricultural mechanization administrative departments from central government to local governments, service organizations of agricultural machinery and agricultural machine users. The agricultural mechanization administrative departments at all levels and service organizations of agricultural machinery can supervise the farm machinery and implements in their areas and realize the intelligent scheduling of cross-regional working by using the information system uniformly. The agricultural machine users can get related scheduling information and all kinds of service information with the system. The trends, static state and other information factors related to agricultural machinery production

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including crop mature time in different areas of our country, farm machines distribution and state, current crop planting and disasters such as drought or waterlog will be stored in the database of agricultural machinery cloud, and the database can get information related to agricultural machinery production by network connecting to the databases of national departments of atmosphere, earthquake monitoring and water conservancy in time. With Internet of Things technology, farm machines and implements in all areas can communicate with datacenter of information service platform in wireless mode by configuration of monitoring front-end equipments machine carrying, and upload all kinds of information such as running state and geographical position automatically.

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The information platform can be simplified to three components including information service system, communication line and monitoring front-end equipment machine carrying. 3.2 Design of Information Service System The customer level of information service system will consist of central system, local classification system, agricultural machinery service organization system and agricultural machine users system. The central system has two main functional modules which are system maintenance and resource distribution module and intelligent scheduling module of agricultural machinery cross-regional working. The management and maintenance of whole system are taken in charge by central government with the system maintenance and resource distribution module. The intelligent scheduling module of agricultural machinery cross-regional working can command and control farm machines and implements to execute cross-regional working and accomplish the tasks of tillage and cultivation and harvest, realize the functions including inquiry of farm machines position and track review. The local classification system can be divided into multi-level such as province level, ground level, county level and other higher and lower system according to the detailed condition in different areas. The systems at all levels have the similar functions; the main function module is intelligent scheduling module of agricultural

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machinery cross-regional working that has similar function comparing with the scheduling module in central system. The agricultural machinery service organization system that is grass-roots organizations of agricultural machinery management mainly comprises two functional modules which are intelligent scheduling module of agricultural machinery cross-regional working and farm machines management module. The function of intelligent scheduling module of agricultural machinery cross-regional working is similar to that of central and local systems. The farm machines management module can provide data management for farm machines in the whole large-scale system. All farm machines registered in system should belong to a certain grass-roots agricultural machinery service organizations in principle, the service organizations should acknowledge and supervise the information validity of farm machines belonging to them. The agricultural machine users system can mainly provide some scheduling services and additional service automatically. The agricultural machine users or farm households can receive scheduling instructions automatically and answer back, and get some additional service interactively such as location navigation service, farm machines state alarm, failure remote diagnosis of farm machines and inquiry of maintenance and oil supply sites. 3.3 Design of Communication Lines and Monitoring Front-End Machine Carrying The users at all levels can connect to information platform through various Internet connection modes directly. They also can encrypt the data transmitting end-to-end with installation of SSL VPN considering the data confidentiality of the entire system. The devices used to connect to Internet can support all kinds of information terminals, and normal agricultural machine users can utilize the function such as failure remote diagnosis of farm machines by furnishing mobile video terminals such as cell phones. The farm machines and implements can connect to information platform and upload data by the suggesting three patterns as follow considering different situations of all parts of our country:

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Installing GPS tracker or Bei-Dou tracker on the farm machines, and machines transmit data to datacenter by mobile network including GPRS, TD, WCDMA. It is the main connection pattern of the platform. Binding RFID on the farm machines, the agricultural machinery service organizations install mobile RFID reader in the areas in which signals are acceptable, and read the running state data of farm machines terminals needing management in their area of jurisdiction intently, and upload data by mobile network uniformly. The pattern adapts to the group working of farm machines and implements, for example, various farm machines and implements are combined together to form a comprehensive service farm machine group, these farm machines and implements typically move and are supervised uniformly. The farm machines and implements can upload data with handheld devices or netbooks after getting data manually. The pattern adapts to the farm machines and implements without automatic uploading conditions. It is a good supplement to the first pattern. The monitoring front-end equipment farm machine carrying is a small scale integration instrument installing on the farm machine, can integrate all kinds of sensors and data collection devices, and upload data automatically. For example, it can integrate GPS or Bei-Dou positioning module to get position information and record the movement tracks of farm machines and implements for intelligent scheduling of cross-regional working; it can integrate video camera to record the working state of farm machine users; it can integrate oil circuit sensor to get oil supply information, and upload data to agricultural machinery cloud, and perform remote computing combining with its movement state to match the oil supply time and best supply sites, then transmit the data to farm machine users as reference; it can integrate key running position sensor to monitor the working state and help making failure diagnosis; it can integrate metered sensor to record farm machines working distance.

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machine users by the system, or the operators of agricultural machinery service organizations will contact with users by telephone or other measures to deal with the farm machine. 3.4 Design of Intelligent Scheduling of Agricultural Machinery Cross-Regional Working There are two modes as follows to realize the intelligent scheduling function of agricultural machinery cross-regional working: The Manual Deployment Mode. The deployment modes of systems at all levels are abstracted to a unified mode that is deployment between higher and lower. The flow chart is as follow:

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existent experience and issue scheduling instruction. The system also has automatic study function, can correct the scheduling model continuously according to the final scheduling program implemented by scheduling administrators of system at all levels. To realize the intelligent scheduling model algorithm, the factors including weather and crop mature time should be considered; the smallest distance matrix of all deployment sites and the smallest path matrix relevant should be computed using Floyd algorithm; the tasks are assigned by sweep algorithm; the task routes are sorted by genetic algorithm; the existing research results related to multi-depot vehicle scheduling problem home and abroad need to be studied. The paper focus on architecture research, so do not analyze the detailed algorithm in depth hereon. Acknowledgements. The work is supported by the Academy of Science and Technology for Development fund project “intelligent search-based Tibet science & technology information resource sharing technology”, the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2009ZX03001-019-01), and the special fund project for Basic Science Research Business Fee, AII (No. 2010-J-07).

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A Comparative Study of Modified Materials of Acetylcholinesterase Biosensor Xia Sun1, Xiangyou Wang1,*, Wenping Zhao1, Shuyuan Du1, Qingqing Li1, and Xiangbo Han2 1 2

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Abstract. In this study, multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), gold nanoparticles (GNPs) and Prussian Blue (PB) were used for modifying glassy carbon working electrode (GCE) to construct acetylcholinesterase (AChE) biosensor respectively. Chitosan membrane was used for immobilizing AChE through glutaraldehyde cross-linking attachment to recognize pesticides selectively. Before the detection, the enzyme membrane was quickly fixed on the surfaces of modified electrode with O-ring to prepare an ampero-metric acetylcholinesterase biosensor for organophosphate pesticides. The fabrication procedures were characterized by cyclic voltammetry and amperometric i-t curve. The electrochemical behaviours of three modified sensors were compared, and the results showed that AChE-PB/GCE possessed higher oxidation peak current at a lower potential. Based on the inhibition of organophosphorus pesticides to the enzymatic activity of AChE, using dichlorvos as model compound, the sensitivity of three modified biosensors were compared, the results showed that the detection limit of AChE-PB/ GCE was lowest. Keywords: Biosensor; Acetylcholinesterase; Pesticide residue; Modified electrode.

1 Introduction Organophosphorus (OP) pesticides are widely used in agricultural production which leads to the most important environmental pollutants. Moreover, OP compounds inhibit acetylcholinasterase (AChE) that hydrolyses the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh), often causing severe impairment of nerve functions of human or even death.[13] For these reasons, the development of rapid and efficient monitoring methods is very important. In the past years, many studies have focused on biosensors based on the enzymatic inhibition by the OP pesticides. They have the additional advantage of simplicity, rapidity, reliability, low cost devices and on site monitoring.[4] Generally speaking, the concentration of pesticides is monitored by measuring the change of oxidation current of thiocholine before and after exporsured to pesticides.[5-7] *

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However, the oxidation generally requires high potential value on a suitable electrode.[8] In order to enhance the test sensitivity, decrease potential values and the electrochemical interference of other oxidable compounds, the use of some modified materials and methods have gained enormous attention in biosensor technology in recent years, such as multi-walled carbon nanotubes(MWNTs),[9-11] prussian blue (PB)[7,12-13] and gold nanoparticles(GNPs).[14-16] Most of these methods rely on enzyme immobilization directly onto the electrode surface, which cannot overcome the biofouling of the electrode surface, and would eventually lead to the deactivation of the biosensor or at least to worsening of the electrochemical response. Our previous investigation results have shown that using a replaceable membrane as support for the enzyme immobilization has many advantages, for example, enzyme membrane can be easily replaced when enzyme’s activity is lost.[9,17] Moreover, there are multiple options for analyte detection based on enzyme immobilization on the membrane (one electrode-multiple membranes-multiple enzymes).[18] This present work is a continuation of our previous investigations and focused on the comparative study of three modified (MWCNTs, GNPs and PB) materials to obtain higher sensitivity and stability biosensor for OP pesticides. The fabrication procedure was characterized by cyclic voltammograms and amperometric i-t curve, respectively. The electrochemical behaviours of three modified sensors and no modified AChE/GCE sensor were compared, and the results showed that the AChEPB/GCE obtained higher oxidation peak current at a lower work potential. Using dichlorvos as model compound, the sensitivity of three modified biosensors were compared, the results showed that the detection limit of AChE-PB/GCE was lowest. The AChE-PB/GCE biosensor exhibited good reproducibi-lity, stability and it was suitable for trace detection of OP pesticide residue.

2 Experimental 2.1 Apparatus Cyclic voltammograms and amperometric i-t curve were performed with CHI660D electrochemical workstation (Shanghai Chenhua Co., China). 10ml of electrochemical cell was made in our laboratory. The working electrode was glassy carbon electrode (d = 3mm) or modified glassy carbon electrode. A saturated calomel electrode (SCE) and platinum electrode were used as referenceand auxiliary electrodes, respectively. 2.2

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2.3 Preparation of AChE Biosensors Preparation of Chitosan Membrane 2.3.1 A solution was prepared with 0.1 g chitosan added to 10 ml of acetate solution (1%, mass ratio), and the mixture was centrifuged for 5min in high-speed centrifuge at 3000rpm to remove insoluble particles. Finally, the pretreated cellulose nitrate microporous membrane was immersed in this sol for 12 h, and then immersed in phosphate buffer (PBS, 0.1 mol/l, pH 8.0) for 12 h, dried and stored for use.[19] 2.3.2 The AChE Immobilization A solution of 100μl of AChE liquid (100U/ml), 30.0μl of BSA (1.0%), 10μl of glutaraldehyde (5.0%), and 360μl of PBS (0.1mol/l, pH8.0) were mixed in a 1 ml of centrifuge tube. A chitosan membrane was immersed in it for 8h at 4oC. Finally, enzyme membranes was washed with PBS (0.1mol/l, pH8.0), immersed in PBS (0.1mol/l, pH8.0), and stored at 4oC before use.[17] 2.3.3 Electrode Modification (1) The preparation of MWCNTs/GCE 20μL of mixture of MWNTs, chitosan and glutaraldehyde were covered on a pretreated GCE with final contents of 0.12% (w/v), 0.48% (w/v) and 0.47% (v/v) respectively, and allowed for reaction at room temperature for 4 h. After being washed thoroughly with double distilled water, the obtained modified electrode was stored at 4oC before use. [20] (2) The preparation of AuNPs /GCE 0.01% HAuCl4 solution was heated to boiling, and quickly added 1 ml 1% sodium citrate. After 1min, the color of solution changed from yellowish to light rose red. Then the AuNPs solutions were stored in dark glass bottles at 4°C. After the working electrode was immersed in 10 ml of AuNPs solutions for 24 h at 4°C, the surface of working electrode was rinsed in double-distilled water for use.[21] (3) The preparation of PB/GCE A solution was a mixture of 2 mM K3[Fe (CN)6], 2 mM FeCl3, 0.1 M KCl, and 10 mM HCl, and the B solution was a mixture of 0.1 M KCl and 10 mM HCl. First, a potential of +0.4V was applied to the electrode in solution A for 60 s and then the electrode was transferred to solution B, and scanned by cyclic voltammetry from -0.05 and 0.35V at a rate of 50mV/s for 12 times. The electrode surface was rinsed with double-distilled water. Finally, the electrode was stored at room temperature.[22] 2.4 Electrochemical Detection of Pesticide The biosensor was tested with amperometric i-t curve (i-t) at a potential of 600 mV versus saturated calomel electrode (SCE). After 100μL of ATChI (15mg/ml) solution was injected into the cell, and the peak current was recorded as I0. The cell was washed with distilled water between measurements. For OP pesticide detection, the pretreated biosensor was first incubated in a given concentration of dichlorvos for 10 min, then it was transferred to the electrochemical cell of 10mL PBS (0.1mol/L, pH8.0), and 100μL of ATChI (15 mg/mL) was injected

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after the current stabilized. The peak current was recorded as I1. The inhibition of pesticides was calculated as follows: I % = ( I 0 − I1 ) / I 0 × 100%

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3 Result and Discussion 3.1 Electrochemical Behavior of AChE-MWCNTs/GCE, AChE-AuNPs/GCE and AChE-PB/GCE Fig.1 showed the cyclic voltammograms of AChE-MWCNTs/GCE, AChEAuNPs/GCE and AChE-PB /GCE in the presence of ATChI (15mg/ml) in PBS (pH 8.0) at a scan rate of 100mV/s. After 100μl of ATChI (15mg/ml) was injected into PBS, AChE-GNPs/GCE identified an oxidation peak current of 45µA at 510mV, and the AChE-MWCNTs/GCE obtained an oxidation peak current of 22µA at 600mV, and the AChE-PB/GCE was an oxidation peak current of 90µA at 570mV respectively. The oxidation peak (curve a, b and c) came from the oxidation of thiocholine, hydrolysis product of ATChI, catalyzed by immobilized AChE. Fig.1 also showed that this peak current of AChE-PB/GCE (curve c) was much higher compared with AChE-MWCNTs /GCE and AChE-AuNPs/GCE. The phenomena was due to PB possess better electrocatalytic ability on the AChE. Whereas, the potential of AChEAuNPs/GCE shifted negatively compared with AChE-MWCNTs/GCE (curve a) and AChE-PB/GCE (curve c). It was likely because that AuNPs possessed inherent high electricity conducting ability, thus can provide a conductive pathway for electron 60 40

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transfer and promote electrocatalysis reactions at a lower potential. At the same time, these three modified biosensor obtained oxidation peak current were comparable with that reported electrochemical biosensor at the same potential.[23-24] For this main reason were the use of chitosan membrane, which provided a biocompatible microenvironment around the enzyme molecule to stabilize its biological activity and prevented the enzyme leaking out from chitosan membrane effectively. Dual-layer membranes had synergistic effects towards enzymatic catalysis, thus, the oxidation peak current increased, which can improve detection sensitivity.

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The current produced by AChE-MWCNTs/GCE, AChE-AuNPs/GCE and AChEPB/GCE catalyzing ATChI achieved to 22μA, 35μA and 80μA at 600mV repectively (Fig.1), which were according with the result tested by ampomeretric i-t (Fig.2), which indicated that we can also detect electrochemical behavior of enzyme biosensor with ampomeretric i-t. 3.2 Effect of Phosphate Buffer pH on AChE-MWCNTs/GCE, AChE-AuNPs/GCE and AChE-PB/GCE The effect of phosphate buffer pH value on the peak currents was shown in Fig.3. The current response of three modified biosensors increased with an increase of pH value up to 7.5, and then the AChE-MWCNTs /GCE current decreased at higher pH value, whereas, the current of AChE-AuNPs/GCE and AChE-PB/GCE continue increase until pH value arrive to 8.0. It could be concluded that the values of the peak current of biosensors changed with the different pH in the range of 5.0 to 8.5. Obviously, the maximum response of peak current appeared at pH 7.5 about AChE-MWCNTs/GCE, and the others at pH 8.0. The phenomena was due to the pH value of electrolyte, which had great influence on the activity of enzyme, which led to the change of the anodic peak current at these biosensors.

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found to be 5.1 and 4.27% of AChE-MWCNTs/GCE, 5.2 and 3.1% of AChEAuNPs/GCE and 4.8 and 3.5% of AChE-PB/GCE respectively, which indicated these three modified biosensors are all acceptable re-producibility.

4 Conclusion In this paper, three materials modified have been used for the fabrication of amperometric AChE biosensors. These AChE biosensors all introduce the chitosan membrane to immobilize AChE, the results have shown that chitosan membrane prevent leakage of the enzmye, improve the activity of immobilization enzyme, and can immobilize sufficient amount of AChE. The fabrication procedures have been characterized by cyclic voltammetry and amperometric i-t curve. The electrochemical behaviours of three modified sensor have been compared, and the results showed that AChE-PB/GCE possess higher oxidation peak current at a lower potential. Using dichlorvos as model compound, the sensitivity of three modified biosensors have been compared, the detection limit of AChE-PB/GCE is lowest. This study indicates we can improve the sensitivity of enzyme biosensor by the selection of the modified materials of electrode and realize the trace detection of OP pesticide residue. Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30972055), Scientific and Technological Project of Shandong Province (No.2008GG10009027), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. Q2008D03).

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A Detection Method of Rice Process Quality Based on the Color and BP Neural Network Peng Wan1,2,∗, Changjiang Long1, and Xiaomao Huang1 1

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Abstract. This paper proposed a detection method of rice process quality using the color and BP neural network. A rice process quality detection device based on computer vision technology was designed to get rice image, a circle of the radius R in the abdomen of the rice was determined as a color feature extraction area, and which was divided into five concentric sub-domains by the average area, the average color of each sub-region H was extraction as the color feature values described in the surface process quality of rice, and then the 5 color feature values as input values were imported to the BP neural network to detection the surface process quality of rice. The results show that the average accuracy of this method is 92.50% when it was used to detect 4 types of rice of different process quality. Keywords: Process quality, Rice color, BP neural network, Rice.

1 Introduction Rice is one of the most important crops in the world, the staple food of about half of the world's population is rice. The harvested paddy needs be processed into rice for human consumption by the processes of huller, mill, polishing and so on. The evaluation standards of rice process quality including grain shape, appearance and color, chalky, fragmentation rate, et al. The process quality of rice is one of the most important factors to determine the appearance quality and the selling price of rice. In the process of rice, the process quality of rice often judged by skilled workers, but due to people's subjective factors, it is difficult to describe accurately the results of the process quality of rice. With the development of science and technology, image analysis technology is widely used to detect and evaluate the rice quality[1][2][3][4]. The color of rice is one of the main factors of evaluating the quality[5]. While detecting the rice quality by the color features, people adopt more RGB color space and HIS color space; in addition, L* a* b* color space is also commonly used to extract the color feature value[6][7]. Since Rumelhart and others[8] proposed the back propagation algorithm, neural networks are widely used in many fields of agriculture. Majumdar S., D.S. Jayas and ∗

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others[9] identified the type of grain by neural network system based according to the characteristics of grain morphology; Kazuhiro Nakano[10] used the neural networks to identify the quality of Apple's appearance, and the experiments showd that the BP neural network can classify the apple into three classes by the color features of the apple. The purpose of this paper is to propose a method of extracting rice color feature values, and detect the process quality of rice according to color feature values and through artificial neural network.

2 Materials and Methods 2.1 Rice Samples The rice samples were Wan Chang Rice, produced in Changchun, Jilin Province. The samples of rice grain were processed by huller, milling, polishing and other processes, and then respectively obtained the rice samples with 500g of four different forms: brown rice (BR), the first process rice (FR), the second process of rice (SR), polished rice (PR), and then packaged in sealed bags and kept in the shade. 2.2 Computer Vision System In order to obtain images of rice grains, the paper designs of the rice quality detection vision system for collection the images of rice samples. 2.3 Rice Image Processing To extract the color features of rice, rice needs to be extracted from the background image firstly. The process flow chart of a rice image was in Figure 1. The detection flow chart of rice process quality by image analysis was shown in Figure 2. Rice image acquisition

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2.4 Color Extraction For extracting the color values of rice image, we must first identify the color region in the abdomen of the rice. In order to guarantee every rice’ color extraction region contains the same number of pixels, this paper detected the equal area in the abdomen of the rice. This paper firstly calculates the cancroid of rice image by image processing, then an extraction region of the color values of rice image (CA, Color Area) is identified, which has the centroid of rice image and a circle of radius R. The extraction region of the color values of rice image (CA) must be in the outline of the rice image. The pixel coordinates of the rice image are expressed as {(xi, yi) | 0 ≤i≤ M, M is the pixel image points}, and the centroid coordinate of the rice image is (X, Y), then: 1 M ⎧ ⎪ X = M ∑ xi ⎪ i =0 ⎨ M 1 ⎪Y = ∑ yi ⎪⎩ M i =0

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The extraction region of the color values of rice image (CA) was divided into 5 equal sub-regions (Sa, Sub area) by the concentric circles which have a centroid coordinate(X, Y) and ranging radius. The sub-regions have the number for the Sai (i = 1,2, ... ... 5) from the inside to the outside of the circle. Set the concentric circles in the CA have the radius of ri(i = 1,2, ... ... 5), the sketch map of 5 sub-regions in CA is shown in Figue 4.

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2.6 The Identification Method of Rice Process Quality In this paper, BP neural network model is used to detect the process quality of rice. The rice samples of four forms are respectively selected to be used to image analysis, and to obtain the color feature value for making up of the sample set of the neural network training set. Suppose the detection values of brown rice (BR), first process rice (FR), second process rice (SR), polished rice (PR) are 0 1 2 3, and then the goals set of the neural network training set is (0, 1, 2, 3). Other 40 full rice are respectively selected from the rice samples of four forms to obtain the color feature value for making up of the detection set of the neural network. The BP neural network in this paper has three layers, the number of input layer neurons is 5, that is the number of the color feature values of rice samples; the number of output layer neuron is 4, and the output signal is (0, 1, 2, 3), and which respectively denotes the rice sample of BR, FR, SR, PR; the number of hidden layer neurons is confirmed according to the accuracy of the test results by using MATLAB software and test set. Neural network identification function is the logistic function:

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From Figure 6, brown rice(1) has the hard cuticle on the external layer, so brown rice shows a different color from the rice, and the outer layer of the brown is smooth; After milling, brown rice is processed into the initial processing rice samples(2), and as cutting through the rice milling machine, the outer layer of brown rice most of the stratum corneum epidermidis is cut, thus the entire outer layer of brown rice puts up mixture colors. After the second milling, brown rice is processed into secondary processing rice samples(3), then the outer layer of the stratum corneum epidermidis of whole rice is almost cut and shows the color of the rice, and at the same time, the outer layer of the rice will produce more fine particles, the surface of the rice is not smooth; After the second milling process, rice is polished into rice sample(4) by polishing processing, the fine particle layer of rice surface is removed, and the rice shows glossy color. 3.2 Rice Image Processing The goal image of rice can be obtained from the rice image through the rice image process, and the object images of rice are shown in Figure 6.

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The color feature values of each 120 samples in four form rice are extracted, and the relationship between the image pixels contained in the color feature extraction region of rice image and the image pixels contained in the rice image is shown in Table 1. Table 1. The relationship of the image pixels contained in the equal portion circles of the rice image Color extraction region pixel points

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3.5 Identification of Rice Process Quality The train set is established adopting the color feature values H and detection values of 100 rice samples of 4 forms to train the BP neural network, and then the BP neural network is verified through the color feature values H and detection values of 50x4 rice samples of 4 forms, and the detection result of the number of different hidden layer neurons is shown in Table 3. Table 3. The color detection results of the rice sample using BP neural network rice samples BR FR SR PR

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From the table, when the number of hidden layer neuron is 15, the rice samples’ overall accurate rate identification is highest, the accurate rate of brown rice is 94.00%, and the accurate rate of first process rice is 96.00%, the accurate rate of second process rice is 88.00%, and the accurate rate of the polished rice is 92.00%, the overall identification accuracy rates is 92.50%. From above mentioned, detect the rice process quality can achieve a satisfactory result by constructing the 3 layers BP neural network with 5 neurons in the input layer, 15 neurons in the hidden layer, 4 neurons in the output layer, and discriminate function of the logistic-type function, and using the rice color feature values H extracted from the surface of the rice samples.

4 Conclusions In this paper, the method of detecting rice process quality was verified by experiments based on the color and BP neural network. First of all, the rice images was obtained, then definite color feature extraction region, and then the color feature extraction region is divided into five color feature extraction sub-regions of the same area with concentric circles of different radius. The color values H of the color feature extraction sub-regions are regarded as the color feature value of the rice, and finally a BP neural network of three layers is adopted to detect the process quality of the rice. The experiment’s results show that accuracy rate of this method of extracting the hue values of the rice image to detect the process quality of the rice is 92.5%.

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A Digital Management System of Cow Diseases on Dairy Farm Lin Li1, Hongbin Wang2, Yong Yang3, Jianbin He1, Jing Dong1,*, and Honggang Fan2 1

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Abstract. A digital management system of cow diseases is presented in this paper, which based on standardization disease management framework. It can manage dairy cow disease from each stage including cow file creation, routine monitoring, disease prevention and control. Integrate electronic medical records was set up, which based on medical records include cow basic information and routine monitoring results and disease prevention information and can implement statistical analytic function of disease rate and guide cow immunization. The Unique numbers and integrated medical records information of every cow will lay the foundation for food of animal origin traceability. This system includes four subsystems, cow basic information management subsystem, cow individual health monitoring and evaluation subsystem, cow electronic medical records subsystem and cow disease prevention and control subsystem. With the help of system analysis and software design techniques, it is can manage cow disease on dairy farm effectually. Keywords: Digital management, cow diseases, dairy farm.

1 Introduction In china, dairy production specifically in general is of great importance. There has been a good trend for the development of cow husbandry in recent years. However, milk and meat yield per cow tend to remain low, although total production has increased, mainly due to increased cow numbers. The reasons are manifold but the main is various kinds of diseases that are ineffective management due to short of disease system of administration. In some economically developed countries, information technology (IT) continues to develop rapidly and is widely and successfully employed in the dairy cattle sector. Large central computers with millions of cow files, operated by cow diseases control program, have been operational for decades to provide the farmers with information (Xiong B H, et al., 2005; Nuthall, P, et al., 2004; Warren, M, et al.2000). Data *

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bases are also increasingly used in a decentralized way on low cost personal computers, by farmers and farm advisors, in the so-called management information systems. Veterinary practitioners use such systems to support a new methodology for safeguarding cow health under the prevailing intensive production conditions (Vaarst, M, et al., 2006; Hamilton, C, et al., 2006; Nyman, A, et al.2007). In this paper, we built a digital management system of cow diseases that combining computer technology, network technology and information management, it will prevent and control disease effectually and promote the economy of dairy farm significantly.

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3 Implement and Function of the System This system includes four subsystems, which are cow basic information management subsystem, cow individual health monitoring and evaluation subsystem, cow electronic medical records subsystem and cow disease prevention and control subsystem. These functions were come true that including dairy farm management, cow information management, routine monitoring, medical records management, disease prevention, drug management, user information management and statistical analysis. The function of system is shown in fig.4. Standardization and applicable disease management framework has been built. It can manage dairy farm from each aspects including cow files creation, routine monitoring, disease prevention. Since the cow come in dairy farm, this system creates cow record and monitor cow health and evaluate abnormal index in whole breed management process dynamically. Integrate electronic medical records that can guide routine monitoring and Support decision making by statistical analysis was set up. It based on medical records include cow basic information and routine monitoring results and disease prevention information. Digitalization management of electronic medical records implements statistical analytic function of disease rate and can guide cow immunization and helminthicide. It is the core of cow disease control and supports user to obtain complete and precise information of disease and supply clinical decision service. The Unique numbers and integrated medical records information of every cow will lay the foundation for food of animal origin traceability. Cow routine monitoring content is divided to routine inspection, physiology monitoring, performance monitoring, ketone monitoring,

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4 Conclusion The digital management system of cow diseases that was created implements routine monitoring standardization, applicable and integrity electron case file, disease prevention systematization. It can manage dairy cow disease from each stage and ensures cow health and raises output and quality of milk, settle the foundation of foods of animal origin traceability. With the help of system analysis and software design techniques, it is can manage cow disease on dairy farm effectually. These will bring evident economic returns.

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A General Agriculture Mobile Service Platform Hu Haiyan1,2,* and Su Xiaolu1,2 1

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Abstract. Most of today’s information services on the web are designed for PC users. There are few services fit to be accessed by mobile devices. In the countryside of China, most of the mobile phone users can not access the Internet. For this reason, We developed General Agriculture Mobile Service Platform. The Platform is designed to make these information services fit to be accessed by mobile users, and to make those mobile phone users can use these services without Internet connection. To achieve that, a descriptive language is designed to describe the services’ inputs and outputs, used to passing requests and responses between the platform and the mobile client software. With those descriptions, client software can generate user interface on the client mobile device. Using that interface, user can manipulate service. The communication between client side and the platform can be carried by SMS, MMS as well as TCP, so that the devices which don’t have Internet connection can access those services. Keywords: Mobile service, Mobile platform, SMS protocol, MMS protocol, Mobile protocol.

1 Introduction Do not have internet connection, one can only be reached by mobile specific communication protocol. Most of the users of cheap mobile devices, as their devices has so limited operability and is not fit for using internet application, will simply chose to have none internet connection. Their mobile device supports only phone call and SMS. To make our service being reachable to these users, a SMS/MMS based communication protocol is developed to handle communication via SMS and MMS, and an independent mobile communication protocol layer is added to the platform. With SMS based communication, the platform can be reached by 100% of mobile users. The processing capacity, presentability, and operability of mobile devices are limited, complicate data presentation and complicate operation can not be done on mobile device. Standard web based user interface is not fit for mobile users. Between mobile *

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devices, capacity of display and operate vary so greatly that can not design a standard client user interface to fit all types of devices. On mobile devices, software installation and running is limited, complicate software functions is not applicable. Client software must adaptable to all these limitation.

2 Platform Design 2.1 Client/Server Architecture Mobile terminal may not support Internet connection. Client/server is the only applicable architecture to leave room for the special designed mobile communication protocol. 2.2 Mobile Protocol Layer Seal mobile communication protocol to an independent layer, simplified both the client and the server software design, and made maintenance and upgrading easy. 2.3 Web Service Composition Server composes available web services into functions which fit for mobile user. The client software can only have a set of very limited functions, so that it can not call complicate services by itself, services must be packaged by server firstly, to make them fit for calling by client software. 2.4 User Interface Auto Generation Based on the capacity of the current mobile device, client software generates user interfaces for each service according to its service description. Each function offered has a formal description, which includes descriptions to all parameters that function needs. All functions consists the service list, which is the data source of service choice list on the client side. With those descriptions, client software can generate user interface to launch calling to those functions, and to handle the returned data. 2.5 Command Pattern Client side software launch calling to server side functions by translation user inputs into commands and sending them to server. The server translates each command to the actual calling to launch the corresponding function, and then package the returned data as response to that command. Then client side handles the returned response to generate user interface to display it. 2.6 Information Leaning Based on Personal Knowledge and Demand Server traces each user’s access records, calculates his possible knowledge structure and interest point. With that information, server can lean the information returned by

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remove those out of the scope of user’s knowledge and those out of user’s interest. This function can be switched off manually.

3 Implementations 3.1 SMS and MMS Based Communication Protocol A single SMS message can carry only 140 byte information, equal to 140 ASCII characters or 70 double byte symbols. This sets the up limit of a single data package. Such a package size is too small to carry information (compared to other communication protocols, such as Ethernet’s 1544 byte package). To transmit data over such a tiny package, the first thing must do is to make the package structure as simple as possible to leave room for data; the second thing must do is to make data can be carried by multiple packages, that means data must be dissembled at transmit end and assembled at receive

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3.2 Voice Service The mobile communication protocol is not fit for transmit long text, and the mobile device itself is often not fit for read much text. If large text needed to be delivered to user, voice is a reasonable choice. Along with SMS, voice is the only other communication method which all mobile device must supports. Regarding that voice can not be formalized, complicate interaction can not be carried by voice service, the only job fit for voice is deliver text. The voice service offered by platform is quite simple. Every user by default will own a voice box, at most 9 voice messages can stored in it, each of them has a title and content. If the box is already full, coming of new message will overwrites the oldest one without warning or confirmation. Client software offers a user interface to manage user’s voice box, user can see message title list and delete message through this interface, but can not get message contents. To get contents, user must call the number of voice service, and then voice service will read out each message title, starts with a serial number, user push the digit button of the serial number will make voice service read the message with that number to user. 3.3 Client Software Developed with J2ME Simply say, client software’s job is to translate user’s operations into calling to services, server finish those calling and return data to client, then client generate an user interface to display the returned data as while as to prepare user’s further operation which using some of those data as input. The first, client must be able to communicate with server, so it must have mobile communication protocol layer, client software can detect mobile device’s capability of communication automatically, and decide the most suitable communication method, user can also manually set communication method. Client software must very flexible, and can adapt to all kinds of limits of all different mobile devices. All user interfaces can adjust automatically to fit for the device’s capacity. Most of the user interfaces are generated automatically, so that services can be added dynamically, without updating the client software. There are some basic operation interfaces which are not automatically generated, they are client software configuration screen, user profile management screen, voice box management screen, service selection screen. After entering a service, all user interfaces are generated based on the service description and function list of the service. To minimize communication, service description is not strictly formalized, the grammar is very simply, many defaults are automatically applied while no declaration presents. For example, the only allowed data type is number and string, if a piece of data comply with any digital format, it will be regard as digits, otherwise it will be look as string, so that the extra data for data type is not needed[3]. 3.4 The 3 Layered Server End Software Server end is consisted by 3 layers, mobile protocol layer, basic platform service layer, and service composition layer.

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At server side there is a counterpart mobile protocol layer handling communications via mobile protocol, but the implementation of this layer is not the same as client side. Unlike the client, server is not naturally support mobile communications; it must connect to some mobile capable devices to extend its mobile capacity. And then, the protocol layer divided into 2 parts, running on the server and its mobile extension devises respectively. Basic platform service provides basic functions such as user profile management, user activity tracing, personalized sorting and filtering, voice box management, and service management. The core function of the platform is to manage services, these services are described in OWL-S documents, and ready to be called by the client side. Each service has a name and a description. User can regard each service as an entry point to access a certain kind of resources, by calling that service, user can access the resources the service provides. A simplest service can only provide a resource list and detail data of each resource. In more complicate occasion, category and search are provided to assist user to locate resource mo efficiently. If resources can be created, changed or removed by user, the service should also include CRUD functions. Beside these, a service should not include any unnecessary function. This limit of simplicity on service simplified user interface generation. If a service originally provides more than this, it should be simplified first, before added to platform [4]. The platform provides a general propose filtering and sorting function based on user’s personal knowledge structure and current interest point. An OWL document is maintained for each user to records the knowledge the user may have. User’s knowledge is inferred from user’s activities, so do to user’s current interest point. Personalization is implemented by another independent software package, and further discussion on personalization is beyond the scope of this paper. What make sense to the platform is that personalization helps significantly reducing the communicated information, and interactive rounds. 3.5 Web Service Composition with OWL-S The server does not care about where the OWL-S description comes from, and whether or not it is correct or effective, those jobs are handled by other systems. The server just use these OWL-S descriptions, call web services according to them, if something failed, a standard error message will be shown. Services is added into platform through service management user interface, this is a web based UI and can not be accessed by common users. Each service has a group of processes, OWL-S describes how to launch these processes. At client side, while entering a service, there is a main menu shown to user, lists all the processes the service had. By select the menu item, client side sends command which at server side launches the corresponding process. At every step of the process triggered, if some parameter is not available from environment and previous outputs, that means user input is needed, at that time, a user interface to input those data is generated. Thanks to the limit of simplicity, all these processes are simple, only sequence flow can appear. So that the

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4 Conclusions By introducing mobile communication protocol, make the platform can cover 100% of mobile users. By introducing web service composition, make it easier to enrich service contents available to mobile users. All these will attract more mobile users and make the mobile technology valuable to agriculture production.

Acknowledgement The research was supported by the national 863 project, Mobile intelligence service for agricultural scientific & technical information (project code 2007AA10Z236) and special fund of basic commonweal research institute project of information institute of CAAS.

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A Halal and Quality Attributes Driven Animal Products Formal Producing System Based on HQESPNM Qiang Han∗ and Wenxing Bao School of Computer Science and Engineering, BeiFang University of Nationalities, Yinchuan Ningxia, P.R. China 750021 [email protected]

Abstract. Usually, halal animal products formal producing system consists of several components that cover major stages including Pre-processing, Processing and Post-processing. In this paper, we present five information systems to implement fundamental functions of formal management, scientific foods management, animal epidemic disease diagnose and prevention, processing standardization and market management, which respectively map to those components mentioned above. As halal animal products formal producing system, there are Halal & Quality attributes existing in all of the five information systems. Thereby, concentrated and systematic controlling of Halal & Quality attributes could improve whole quality of the producing system and ensure products is halal. Addressed to the problem of controlling scheme, first, this paper given a Halal & Quality Elements Extended SPN Model (HQESPNM) in detail. Second, it propose Platform-Independence architecture of the formal producing system based on HQESPNM through infrastructure of database integrate middleware. Finally, this paper given an Electronic-Agriculture Services case through Platform-Specified Software based on SOA to certificate that the model proposed by this paper is feasible for halal animal products system. Keywords: Halal, Quality, Traceability, Petri Nets, HQESPNM.

1 Introduction At the beginning of 80’s of last century, based on the Petri Net [1], Molly presented Stochastic Petri Net through associating a stochastic delay time to every transition from ready-to-fire to firing [2]. With the development of science, computation science based on high-performance computing becomes more and more important[5].As the Stochastic Petri Net presented, it was used in many applications of modeling, analysis and efficiency test, such as communication protocols, workflow design etc. However, Stochastic Petri Net is not suitable to each application aspect completely. For example, to the formal producing and quality certification of Halal Animal, except general elements of normal management are suitable to Stochastic Petri Net for information system modeling and computation, the type of its Halal and Quality elements affection to all of steps in whole management process is through controlling the ∗

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process and not by any time-element or stochastic-element. Once the Halal and Quality elements are destroyed in the management process, the products have not any meaning for Moslem people and other people. Including all the animal product producing process of Pre-processing, Processing and Post-processing, in breeding, propagate, feed, fattening, slaughtering, transportation and market circulating, how to guarantee the products are processed under an consistency environment according to Halal and Quality standard, is the key of information system which service for this aspect. To solve the problem above, this paper proposed an approach through combination technique [13] of Place expanding Petri nets [6] and Stochastic Petri Net [2], and by the approach, this paper given a Halal & Quality Elements Extended SPN Model (HQESPNM) in detail. The primary thought of the approach is separate the problem of the aspect into two part, the part about general performance computation can be solved by Stochastic Petri Net, and the other part about Halal & Quality elements can be solved by Place expanding Petri nets. So that, by this means, through the function of the two Petri net theories, the problem of the aspect can be solved successfully. In the detailed scheme of the halal animal products formal producing system model based on HQESPNM, this paper mainly given design of the model which separate Halal & Quality attributes into independent subsystem, and the implementation of its algorithm. The organization of the remainder of this paper is as follows. Section 2 given the basic concepts and notations, and system model is given in section 3. Section 4 discussed how to use the system to solve the problem through an example. Finally, section 5 summarized the main results and points out the future work. The word “iff” means “if and only if” in this paper.

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5 Conclusion and Future Working Address to Halal & Quality attributes assurance problem of formal producing system, the basic concept and notation of HQESPNM is given firstly, and the software model including architecture and design is presented secondly. Based on the model, this paper introduced an application example in electronic agriculture domain covering whole producing process including Pre-producing, Producing, Post-producing finally. Results indicated that the HQESPNM separate the normal producing elements and Halal & Quality controlling elements into Petri Nets and Stochastic Petri Nets through Place expanding Petri Net [6] successfully. In future, the formal work of HQESPNM should be implemented to certificate its correctness.

Acknowledgement This paper is supported by National Key Technology R&D Program of China under Grant No.2007BAD33B03, Natural Science Foundation of NingXia Province under Grant No.NZ0955 and the Colleges Oriented Scientific Research Fund of NingXia Provincial Education Department of China under Grant No.2008JY009. Additionally, we should thank for the software prototype development work distributed by our colleagues and master candidate students: Ding HongSheng, Yang YongSheng, Shi Liang and Liu Yang.

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A Metadata Based Agricultural Universal Scientific and Technical Information Fusion and Service Framework Cui Yunpeng1, Liu Shihong1, Sun SuFen2, Zhang Junfeng2, and Zheng Huaiguo2 1

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Abstract. The paper introduced a metadata based Agricultural scientific and technical Information fusion and Services framework. Through Agricultural scientific and technical Information dataset core metadata and Services core metadata, the distributed and platform-independent Information fusion can be implemented, based on the information fused resources in base layer of the framework, many applications can be developed, such as mobile communication based mobile Information service, voice text converter based voice information service, smart Q & A application etc., and the solution is an available and effective solution for the fusion and services of agricultural scientific and technical information resources, because the solution can integrate the data with different format from different data sources, so the solution can be used to construct the data layer of agricultural scientific and technical universal information services. Keywords: Information fusion, Metadata, Agricultural scientific and technical Information service.

1 Introduction The construction of Agricultural informatization in China has made rapid progress in recent years. There are now over 2,000 E-commerce web sites, more than 6,000 Agricultural web sites in China, and a large amount of application and digital products have emerged[1], the agriculture productivity in China has been enhanced significantly. But on the other hand, some problems also emerged during the period. because there are too many information resources located in different data sources, and a lot of these information are duplicated, it’s very difficult for users to find the right knowledge and information they really want, and users can’t extract useful knowledge from just one or several information. The crux of all these problems is information fusion, based on information fusion, the information resources with different formats from different data sources can be integrated in one logical whole, the retrieval to this logical whole is just like retrieval from one dataset, the duplicated information entities can be removed automatically, based on the fusion of the information resources, many D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 56 – 61, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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applications can be developed, such as mobile service, intelligent Q&A system, the cross- database retrieval application etc. The most effective scheme for information fusion nowadays is metadata, it is the core of information fusion, and now there are already some successful case which use metadata based framework in information fusion, such as the scientific database service platform of CAS, the agricultural scientific data sharing platform of CAAS, etc., this paper will discuss a metadata based agricultural scientific and technical information fusion and service framework as well as the standards worked out for the framework.

2 Metadata and Metadata Standards The definition of metadata is: metadata is the data about data[2]. In fact, metadata is a set of data that can describe and identify a specific information entity, and help users find and achieve related information resources object. There are two kinds of metadata standards, core metadata standard and expanded metadata standard, normally, expanded metadata standard was expanded from core metadata standard and used in some specific area. The usage of metadata standards include: 1. Information management. Metadata can describe information entity, that means all the information entities can be “labeled” with metadata, through metadata, the management of information entities can be promoted. 2. Information discovery. With metadata, the retrieval of information entities is in fact the retrieval of metadata registration information, so the metadata registration information can be regarded as the sources of information discovery[3]. 3. Information acquisition. Normally, the position and the type Information is included in metadata, so users can acquire information entities very easy, thus users can utilize information more effectively. 4. The integration and sharing of information resources. All the information entities is registered with universal or compliant metadata standards, so the integration and sharing of information resources turns into reality[4].

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connect to a data source to get the information they need. The top layer of the framework is dataset metadata fusion layer, all the datasets locate in the data sources at the bottom layer will be identified by dataset layer, so there is a large dataset metadata value databases in this layer, users can retrieve the information entities in the datasets through retrieving the dataset metadata values.

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If a user want to retrieve an information entity, he/she enter keywords into an application that provides the services above, the system will first retrieve the information in the dataset metadata values database, find which dataset include the information entities match the keywords the user entered, and then locate the data sources where the service metadata described, find the connection information of the data source, then connect to the data source, send query information, get the results, and feedback results to the user.

4 The Agriculture Information Resources Dataset Core Metadata The agriculture information resources dataset core metadata is a metadata standard which regards agriculture information resources as descriptive objects, it is expanded from the scientific database core metadata standard of Chinese academy of science. It defines a set of data modules and elements. The main body of the standard includes 6 required modules: dataset description information, data quality information, dataset distribution information, metadata reference information, services reference

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From the example, we can see that all the information needed to connect to a database are contained in the metadata values. That is, an application can connect to the database automatically with these information, once an agriculture database is indexed with agriculture information resources dataset connection service metadata, the application can connect to the database and get results from database, the whole process will be finished automatically.

6 Conclusion Information fusion is very important for agriculture scientific and technical information services, but it’s very difficult to find an effective mechanism to implement real agriculture information fusion. Metadata provides available means to integrate different type, different format information resources from different sources, and all the information sources can be integrated into one logical entirety. Based on the integrated information resources, different application can be developed, such as mobile communication based mobile Information service, voice text converter based voice information service, smart Q & A application etc., so the universal information services can be implemented, thus, the quality of agriculture information services will be promoted greatly.

Acknowledgement The research was supported by the special project from ministry of agriculture of the people’s republic of China, named study of agriculture informatization standards system and special fund of basic commonweal research institute project of information institute of CAAS, and National 11th five-year technology based plan topic named study of Agricultural product quantity Safety Data obtained standards (2009BADA9B02).

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A Method to Calibrate the Electromagnetic Tracking Instrument When Measuring Branches of Fruit Trees Ding-Feng Wu, Jian Wang, Guo-Min Zhou, and Li-Bo Liu Agricultural information institute of CAAS, Beijing 100081, China [email protected]

Abstract. To reduce the effect from instrument error when getting characteristic parameters of branches of fruit trees by the electromagnetic tracking instrument, a calibration method was sounded based on a discussion of the instrument error of electromagnetic tracking instrument. Finally, the method was tested in an experiment. By comparing the data of the experiment and the standard data which was got by slide caliper, we proved that the method is effective in increasing the accuracy of measurement. Keywords: Fastrak; Instrument error; Calibration.

1 Introduction China is the biggest producer of fruits in the world. In many parts of this country, the fruit industry has become the pillar industry. based on the measurement of fruit tree structure, the research of the connection between the structure and the output, the utility rate of luminous energy and the anti-disease ability of a fruit tree is an important impetus of developing of punning skill and breeding technique of fruit trees [4]. Electromagnetic tracking instrument is a kind of digital measuring tools based on electromagnetism [3]. It is an effective tool of getting structure data of fruit trees because it is not only an easy-to-use, extremely accurate and broad action sphere device but also a powerful survey tool which can track the space track and calculate the inclination angle of stylus [2]. The electromagnetic tracking instrument is vulnerable to external magnetic effects. It will fall in complicated electromagnetic environment [1]. Besides, after a long time working, the status of equipment will be different from the initial status and the accuracy of the device will reduce. When measuring branches of fruit trees, a high degree of accuracy is required, so the electromagnetic tracking instrument must be calibrated before working [4]. In this paper, a calibration method is put forward.

2 Materials and Methods 2.1 Device Fastrak is an advanced electromagnetic tracking instrument [1]. It was used as the measuring device in the experiment. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 62–67, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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Assume the error of the measuring instrument to be calibrated is μ and the error of the standard measuring device is μ’. Then in the course of the instrument calibration, we must ensure thatμ’ is at a lower order of magnitude than μ, otherwise the calibration may increase the error because the error of standard device affects the result. As we known, the Fastrak electromagnetic tracking device can working with accuracy of 0.8mm [1], which means the normal rulers can not provide a standard Reference Data, so we use a slide caliper with the precision of 0.05mm as the standard measuring device in the experiment. 2.2 Analysis of Error Because of the effects of devices and experiment environment, the measurement result of physical amount is definitely different with the real value, the difference is called measurement error, the part which caused by the imperfect instrument structure and the external environment is named instrument error. When Fastrak is working, following causes may bring instrument error: 1. External magnetic effects 2. Deviation of origin of coordinate 3. Instrument mechanical wear and decline of circuit state 2.3 Error under the Magnetic Effects In the electromagnetic environment, eight space points were measured by Fastrak electromagnetic tracking instrument, every point was measured ten times. The result was compared with the standard data got by slide caliper. Error of one point’s ten times measurement is shown in Figure 1. 100 50 Exp No

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A Method of Deduplication for Data Remote Backup Jingyu Liu1,2, Yu-an Tan1, Yuanzhang Li1, Xuelan Zhang1, and Zexiang Zhou3 1

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Abstract. The paper describes the Remote Data Disaster Recovery System using Hash to identify and avoid sending duplicate data blocks between the Primary Node and the Secondary Node, thereby, to reduce the data replication network bandwidth, decrease overhead and improve network efficiency. On both nodes, some extra storage spaces (the Hash Repositories) besides data disks are used to record the Hash for each data block on data disks. We extend the data replication protocol between the Primary Node and the Secondary Node. When the data, whose Hash exists in the Hash Repository, is duplication, the block address is transferred instead of the data, and that reduces network bandwidth requirement, saves synchronization time, and improves network efficiency. Keywords: Disaster Recovery, Deduplication, Hash, Duplicate Data.

1 Introduction Today, the ever-growing volume and value of digital information have raised a critical and mounting demand for long-term data protection through large-scale and highperformance backup and archiving systems. The amount of data requiring protection continues to grow at approximately 60% per year[1]. The massive storage requirement for data protection has presented a serious problem for data centers. Typically, data centers perform weekly full backups for weeks to months. Local hardware replication techniques can mask a significant number of failures and increase data availability. For example, RAID can protect against single disk-failure. Furthermore, certain raid levels even survive multiple simultaneous failure[2,3,4]. However, local hardware replication techniques are inadequate for extensive failures or disasters, which may be caused by environmental hazards (power outage, earthquake, and fire), malicious acts or operator errors. To ensure continuous operation even in the presence of such failures, the secondary node (a backup copy of the primary node) is often maintained up-to-date at a remote geographical location and administered separately. When disaster strikes at the primary node, the secondary node takes over transaction processing. The geographic separation of the two copies reduces the likelihood of the backup also being affected by the disaster. Disaster Recovery is such technique. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 68 – 75, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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Data Disaster Recovery is an important measurement to ensure the integrity and availability of computer systems. With the remote replication technology, an offsite independent backup for the local data is stored via the network[5]. When the local node is damaged, the data can be recovered from a remote system immediately[4,6]. At first, all data blocks on the disk of the local source server (the Primary Node) are duplicated to the remote target server (the Secondary Node) to complete the initial data synchronization. From then on, the data in the Primary Node changed is duplicated to the Secondary Node synchronously or asynchronously via the network[7]. If the data is transferred offsite over a wide area network, the network bandwidth requirement can be enormous[8]. The Primary Node and the Secondary Node are usually deployed separately in two buildings that one is very far apart from the other, or even two cities. There are two ways to transfer the data packet between the nodes, one is then common IP network, the other is the Fibre Channel[9]. Because the private network is expensive, data replication between the Primary Node and the Secondary Node usually uses the common IP network[10]. When the updates are frequent, and the amount of data gets massive, the performance degrades and the backup data maybe lost because of the low network bandwidth and the latency. Some data blocks on the disk are duplication, for example, a file on disk may have multiple copies or different versions, and the great majority is same[11,12]. In the data disaster recovery system, all the data blocks of the file need to be transferred to the Secondary Node when the Primary Node creates a duplicate of the file or updates it. However, the Secondary Node already contains most sections of the data blocks, and the data blocks transferred through the network is duplication of the section of the Secondary Node[13,14,15]. The paper describes the Remote Data Disaster Recovery System using Hash to identify and reduce the amount of data transmitted over the network, and at the same time, the technique assures the reliability and availability of the data, and reduces network bandwidth requirement. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the architecture of Disaster Recovery System we used, highlighting the features important for performance. Section 3 discusses implementation of the deduplication method. Section 4 discussed the design and performance evaluation of the solution. Section 5 summarizes and describes future work.

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A Localization Algorithm for Sparse-Anchored WSN in Agriculture Chunjiang Zhao, Shufeng Wang, Kaiyi Wang, Zhongqiang Liu, Feng Yang, and Xiandi Zhang Beijing Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, Beijing, China, 100097 {Zhaocj,Wangsf,Wangky,Liuzq,Yangf,Zhangxd}@nercita.org.cn

Abstract. The location information is very crucial for the sensing data in modern agriculture. However, positioning errors and sparse anchors are two key problems that should first be solved for the localization of the sensor nodes. We proposed a novel algorithm to tackle with these challenges. When the system of adjacent anchor distance equations is ill, a minimized-stress search algorithm (MSS) can decrease positioning error greatly. A collaborative sparse-anchored scheme (CSA) has an excellent positioning effect on low density of anchor, specifically on marginal sensor nodes. Our experimental result verified validity and accuracy of the algorithm. It improved feasibility and cost of WSN positioning technique, significantly. Keywords: WSN, localization, Sparse anchors, Multi-hop cooperation.

1 Introduction Recent advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, wireless communications, and digital electronics have enabled the development of low-cost, low-power, multifunctional sensor nodes that are small in size and communicate in short distances [1]. These sensor nodes with sensing, data processing, and wireless communicating capabilities can be self-organized together in ad-hoc mode and be deployed in pre-determined or random fashion in inaccessible terrains or disaster relief operations. Therefore there are a wide range of applications for wireless sensor networks (WSN): military, infrastructure security, environment and habitat monitoring, industrial sensing, traffic control, etc [2]. Especially, WSN are applied to varied fields in agriculture to improve the agricultural informatization in recent years [3]. In the last decade, WSN have been increasingly applied in modern agriculture [4]. Sensor nodes can be used for monitoring a wide variety of agricultural parameters that include the following phenomena: temperature, humidity, moisture, lightning condition, soil makeup, livestock ID, and so on [5]. However, the sensing data is not meaningful without the company of the sensing location. Naturally, the localization of WSN nodes is very crucial for sensing data usage. Furthermore, accurate location might also be useful for routing and coordination purposes in large scale WSN. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is the most well known location service in use nowadays. The approach taken by GPS, however, is unsuitable for the low-cost, D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 76 – 86, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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low -power large scale sensor networks nodes in agriculture because of the following reasons: cost, power consumption, inaccessibility, imprecision, size [6]. It is necessary to develop an alternative inexpensive, more applicable localization approach. This paper will present the novel localization algorithm in sparse-anchored WSN. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: The next section gives a brief explanation of theoretical background. Section 3 is our proposed algorithm of localization system. Section 4 describes the resolution of the sparse-anchored problem. Section 5 is experimental results and analysis. Finally, section 6 concludes the paper.

2 Theoretical Background Triangulation, scene analysis, and proximity are the three principal techniques for location sensing [7]. Typically, lateration is the most popular location method that employs triangulation technique. Lateration computes the position of an unknown node by measuring its distance from multiple reference positions. Calculating an object's position in two dimensions requires distance measurements from 3 non-collinear anchors as shown in Figure 1. In 3 dimensions, distance measurements from 4 noncoplanar anchors are required. But, these circles can not intersect at the same point sometime for the error of distance measuring.

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A New Method of Transductive SVM-Based Network Intrusion Detection Manfu Yan1 and Zhifang Liu2 1

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Abstract. Based on the existing Transductive SVM and via introducing smooth function P ( Δ, λ ) to construct smooth cored unconstrained optimization problem, this article will build the optimization model accessible to degenerate solutions to generate an improved transductive SVM, introduce simulated annealing to degenerate the optimization problem, and apply such a Support Vector Classifier to generate a new method of network intrusion detection. Keywords: optimization; unconstrained problem; transductive SVM; network intrusion detection; simulated annealing.

1 Introduction Network intrusion detection is a safe mechanism with dynamic monitoring, prevention or resistance against network intrusion [1]. The network-intrusion detection system can be used to discover and identify the behavior and attempt of intrusion in the system via monitoring and analyzing the network flow and system audit records to give out an alarm of intrusion in order to facilitate the administer to take effective measures to mend the loopholes of the system and fill up the system [2]. Network intrusion detection is used to separate user behavior’s normal data of from its abnormal data, which essentially can be regarded as the classification. The data to describe the behaviors of users is of multi-index as usual. Therefore, it can be expressed with an n-dimensional vector. In this way, the network-intrusion detection problem can be summarized as data group for normal or abnormal behavior of users, i.e. two kinds of classification problems of n-dimensional vector, which can help create the detection methods and system via the support vector classifier. But studies and practices indicate that as to the network-intrusion detection problem, the methods and system built by the use of ordinary SVM (e.g. C-SVM) are not desirable in the precision of detection. Thus, we try to apply the transductive support vector classifier to create the detection methods and introduce the simulated annealing method to degenerate the optimized model.

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3 New Method on Network Intrusion Detection As the objective function of problem 31 has a continuous gradient and hesse matrix, as well as unconstrained, it can be solved by basic algorithm to unconstrained problem. However its objective function is not convex function thus a number of local optimal solutions may exist, and through the general unconstrained algorithm may not acquire global optimal solution. In the following global optimal algorithm – simulated annealing algorithm will be introduced to solve problem (31), and the model will be introduced to network intrusion detection. 3.1 Simulated Annealing Algorithm First, we will introduce simulated annealing algorithm. Simulated annealing algorithm is a kind of random search method known as Monte Carlo method, which allows the objective function to have random changes in the increasing direction. Therefore, simulated annealing algorithm can jump out of local minimum point. This algorithm was proposed by Metropolis as early as 1953, originated from simulation to solid annealing process. The annealing process starts at a certain high enough temperature, and almost every random motion are acceptable under this temperature. Then the temperature decreases slowly according to some cooling rule and tends to zero. Enough time is needed for the system to reach a stable state at each temperature point, and finally places in a state with lowest energy, to obtain a relative global optimal solution to the optimization problem. In which, one solution xk to the optimization problem and its target value f(xk) correspond to a solid microstate k and its energy Ek respectively. The temperature T in the annealing process is a control parameter decreasing by the algorithm process. The algorithm adopts Metropolis acceptance criteria. In each step of the algorithm, a new candidate solution generates randomly. If the new solution decreases the objective function, it is acceptable; otherwise whether to accept it will be decided in form of exponential probability. Probability P to accept the new solution is: ⎧ exp(− Δf / T ) p=⎨ ⎩1

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Step 3. If no such a solution satisfying E(x') > E* and all the neighborhood solutions are tabu, or some of the termination conditions are reached, the algorithm stops and returns Q. Step 4. Otherwise, select an x' in N(x)\T with the best expected value in E(x'), update the tabu list T and let x = x', go Step 2. In the above algorithmic framework, the neighborhood of a fertilizer solution [x1, x2, x3] is defined as the set of six solutions including [x1±0.1, x2, x3], [x1, x2±0.1, x3] and [x1, x2, x3±0.1], where 0.1 is a preset increment value (for other yield response models, the increment value can be adjusted according to the units of measurement used and the fertilizer application quantities estimated). We run the tabu search algorithm for solving the Camellia oleifera yield response model. The credibility level λ was set to 0.25; the algorithm stopped after 528 iterations, and the result non-dominated solution set contained 6 solutions as shown in Table 2. As we can see, solution #5 and #6 reached the maximum expected yield value 1162.5, in which #6 reached the maximum optimistic value 1295, and #1 reached the maximum pessimistic value 1036. Table 2. Non-dominated solution set for the Camellia oleifera yield response model

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AgOnt: Ontology for Agriculture Internet of Things Siquan Hu1, Haiou Wang1, Chundong She2, and Junfeng Wang3 1

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Abstract. Recent advances in networking and sensor technologies allow various physical world objects connected to form the Internet of Things (IOT). As more sensor networks are being deployed in agriculture today, there is a vision of integrating different agriculture IT system into the agriculture IOT. The key challenge of such integration is how to deal with semantic heterogeneity of multiple information resources. The paper proposes an ontology-based approach to describe and extract the semantics of agriculture objects and provides a mechanism for sharing and reusing agriculture knowledge to solve the semantic interoperation problem. AgOnt, ontology for the agriculture IOT, is built from agriculture terminologies and the lifecycles including seeds, grains, transportation, storage and consumption. According to this unified meta-model, heterogeneous agriculture data sources can be integrated and accessed seamlessly. Keywords: Agriculture Internet of Things, Ontology, Semantics.

1 Introduction Recent advances in networking, sensor and RFID technologies allow connecting various physical world objects to the IT infrastructure, which could, ultimately, enable realization of the Internet of Things (IOT) and the Ubiquitous Computing visions [1] [2] [3]. IOT has great potential in Agriculture. Consider the future vision of the food lifecycles are well recorded from seeds, cultivation, products, transportation, food processing, sales in supermarket, it is exciting to have public confidence on food security and tremendous additional value to the agriculture and food suppliers. However, in the agriculture internet of things, the data are sourced from different organizations and information technology facilities; it is an enormous challenge to integrate them into a workable system so that the midstream firms and the end consumers can query the history of the agricultural products unhindered by the bounds of the previous venders. One of the most important requirements of such integration is that the data semantics are consistence among the different phase of the products. To achieve such target, a unified ontology of agriculture products should be utilized by all the information systems of the different phases. Ontology is a new D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 131–137, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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concept that is emerging from the various Semantic Web initiatives, which roughly speaking can be defined as a semantic system that contains terms, the definitions of those terms, and the specification of relationships among those terms. In this paper, we proposed AgOnt - agriculture ontology for the purpose of agriculture internet of things. To keep the ontology light-weighted, we ignore the complexity of the specific agriculture activities or food processing; only the environments of the agriculture products are paid close attention to so that all the history can be queried by the follow-ups users. The remainder of the paper is organized as follows: section 2 presents the design of proposed AgOnt ontology. In section 3 the query of AgOnt based knowledge base is discussed. Section 4 highlights existing related work briefly. Section 5 concludes the current work and discusses possible future avenues for this research.

2 AgOnt Ontology Ontology gives formal description on the hierarchical categories for real world knowledge [4], [5], [6]. Our approach uses ontology to capture the semantics of agriculture grains and their cultivation, logistics, storage history in the application of agriculture IOT. The purpose of building this ontology is to provide a mechanism for semantic interoperation between different systems (clouds) in the global agriculture clouds computing system. The semantic integration based on the ontology provides a solid basis for the integration of heterogeneous agriculture information system to form a huge information platform to record the grain lifecycles from the seeds, plant cultivation to food consumption. AgOnt is based on the IEEE Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) [7], which is the largest formal public ontology in existence today and used widely for research and applications in search, linguistics and reasoning. To capture the semantics of the grain or food lifecycle terminologies, we not only are able to define the environment of a product, but also describe the recall relationship between the succeeding forms such as the seeds and the plant, the wheat and the ponder, etc. 2.1 Structure of the Ontology We create AgOnt ontology on the basis of two kinds of relationships in the lifecycle of agriculture products. One is the relationship of a product and its properties such as location, timestamp, environments parameters, processing status, etc. The other is the relationship between a product and its source products such as a plant and its seedlings where the plant grows from. Currently, we have defined 3 relationships between entities in our ontology generation: Is-a, Has-property, and Source-from: z z z

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“Thing” is a dummy root for all classes in the ontology hierarchy. To illustrate the relationship “source-from”, Fig. 1 gives an example between “Seed” and “Seedling” to show the grow-up or evolution of agriculture product. It is obvious that “Seed” and “Seedling” are the second level ontologies.

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The Product class hierarchy is showed in Fig. 2. All agriculture products are dived into 5 subclasses, Seed, Seedling, Plant, Crop and Processed food, with each sources from previous. Crop capture the concept of the product cropped directly from the field. Different from it, Processed food describe the product produced by food processing factories. The Phase class describe the abstract activity of the product ignore the specific characteristics. Currently we have 6 kinds of phases showed in Fig.3. The Condition class captures all the sensor output to log the environment data of the product. Depending on the phase, the conditions of a product may have different properties. These property data are captured by smart sensors and can be propagated into the IOT. Fig. 4 shows a snippet of the conditions.

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3 Querying on Agriculture Knowledge Base Based on AgOnt Ontology The AgOnt ontology provides a logical base where the semantics of the history of an agriculture product. Different agriculture information systems can integrate into a self-consistent knowledge base via a semantic middleware showed in Fig. 5.

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A user can query the abnormal condition history of a product after the knowledge base is built based on the ontology. The knowledge base has two kinds of descriptions. One is the classification of the agriculture terminologies and their relationship, the users and machines can reason and analyze the structure association of agriculture concepts. The other is the concrete instances of the products, their conditions and relationship, where the users and machines can judge what the history condition caused an unsatisfied product at the end. For example, assume at some phase a decayed product ABP is found, the user wish to identify where the problem comes from. Depending on the setting of abnormal condition, the user can query the history to find which phase may cause it. Assume the abnormal condition is “the temperature > 4 degC and the humidity > 30%”, following query procedure is built to identify the problem. Set a search depth upper bound H; Searchdepth=1; CurProduct=ABP; do { Select x from products where CurProduct source-from x and x has-Property temperature > 4 degC or x has-Property humidity > 30%; If x is not empty, return x; else { CurProduct =x; searchdepth ++;} } while (searchdepth < H)

4 Related Work In the agricultural sector there exist already many well-established controlled vocabularies, such as FAO's AGROVOC Thesaurus [8]. However, to build a semantic tool entirely effective on the Internet, there is a need to re-assess the traditional "thesaurus" approach and move towards to the development of "ontologies". Taking FAO's multilingual thesaurus AGROVOC as a starting point, the AOS Concept Server [9] is a project for such purpose with helping structuring and standardizing agricultural terminology to be used in a wide range of systems in the agricultural domain. The Concept Server will provide a core ontology in the domain of agriculture

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that people can take as a starting point for building more detailed domain specific ontologies. Although it is a really huge data store in agriculture, the server is more informatics-oriented than food lifecycles tracking. Xie et al. [10] presented an agriculture-specific ontology to meet the requirement of agricultural knowledge processing and discussed the method for agricultural knowledge acquisition and representation. Gangemi et al. [11] aimed at building an ontology in the fishery domain through the conceptual integration and merging of existing fishery terminologies, thesauri, reference tables, and topic trees. The ontology will support semantic interoperability among existing fishery information systems and will enhance information extraction and text marking, envisaging a fishery semantic web. In summary, above ontologies are not helpful from the view of agriculture IOT application, where more semantic interoperability between grain or food lifecycles is focused. It is necessary to create a specific ontology suitable for the integration of multiple data sources of multiple phases so that all history record can be recalled.

5 Conclusion and Future Work The AgOnt ontology gives a description of the concepts of agriculture terms and lifecycle between seeds, grains, transportations, storage and consumption. According to the classified domain terms and definition based on attribute descriptions in the ontology, a semantic middleware can reason on the food healthy knowledge. By using this proposed approach, the distributed agriculture products’ information system can be accessed seamlessly. Thus follow-up users can know the history of the product before making a further processing. And the mechanism can also be used to recall when and where may take responsibility when a problem is found. The future work is to find mechanisms of managing the agriculture ontology at runtime, to build a user query model to map various user requirements to reasoning procedures, and to sum up the experience of migration from the legacy systems to an ontology-based system.

Acknowledgement Project supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (2008AA01Z208 and 2009AA01Z405), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60772150), and the Youth Foundation of Sichuan Province (2009-28-419) and the Applied Basic Research Program of Sichuan Province (2010JY0013).

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Auto Recognition of Navigation Path for Harvest Robot Based on Machine Vision Bei He1, Gang Liu1, Ying Ji1,2, Yongsheng Si1,2, and Rui Gao1 1

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Abstract. An algorithm of generating navigation path in orchard for harvesting robot based on machine vision was presented. According to the features of orchard images, a horizontal projection method was adopted to dynamically recognize the main trunks area. Border crossing points between the tree and the earth were detected by scanning the trunks areas, and these points were divided into two clusters on both sides. Resorting to least-square fitting, two border lines were extracted. The central clusters were gained by the two lines and this straight line was regarded as the navigation path.Matlab simulation result shows that the algorithm could effectively extract navigation path in complex orchard environment, and correct recognition rate was 91.7%. The method is proved to be stable and reliable, and with the deviation rate of simulation navigation angle compared with the artificial recognition angle is around 2%. Keywords: Navigation path, Machine vision, Orchard environment, Image segmentation, Least square-fitting.

1 Introduction As a type of agricultural robot, fruit-picking robot has great potential application prospect. Picking robot technology mainly includes three aspects: recognition, picking and movement[1]. Recognition contains recognition of ripe fruits, and acquiring the location of fruits; picking mainly includes the design of the mechanical arms and motion control; movement mainly refers to robot navigation. At present, the recognition has been studied and researched by many research institutions and has become a relatively mature method to many varieties of fruits and vegetables like apples, oranges, cucumbers etc[2-6]. However, the research about robot navigation based on open environment of orchard is rare on report[7]. As the development of automation, generally used navigation sensors include global positioning system (GPS), vision sensor, ultrasonic wave sensor, laser scanner and geomagnetic direction sensor at present[8-9]. Current research mainly focuses on two promising methods, machine vision and GPS navigation. Most of these studies of automatic guidance systems dealt with spatial positioning-sensing systems and steering control systems for following a predetermined path[10]. And there are only a few D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 138–148, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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researches on the field of the orchard navigation robots. Among them, applying machine vision to orchard navigation has lots of advantages, and can effectively solve the problems in autonomous navigation of agricultural robot as explained below. First of all, it does not require a specific navigation aid. Secondly, machine vision can adapt complex environment, including complex terrain, unknown and variable environment parameter, etc. Lastly, more flexible visual field, integrate information and high reliability and accuracy will be used. The robot can move autonomously more effectively with vision technique applied to the navigation of harvesting robot. The research of the paper is mainly about traveling device, vision system, Arm & gripper of the apple picking robot. Machine vision system is to recognize and locate fruits and the navigation system is to provide the moving route shown as the Figure 1. This paper presents a method which adopts machine vision to acquire orchard images which are studied to obtain the navigation route to achieve robot visual navigation.

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2 Materials and Methods 2.1 Characteristics of the Orchard Environment Image Orchard navigation, like farmland Navigation, can also use the ridge boundary line detection that makes the aerial view of the whole orchard as target to obtain the navigation route through its visual system so as to complete autonomous navigation operation[11]. Actually, the orchard environment is complex with its non-structural characteristics and diverse background. Besides, the orchard is affected by natural sunshine, temperature and other natural aspects. Different size of fruit trees and varied growth patterns make the orchard more uncertain, which raises the real-time requirement of orchard navigation. The plants of early crops in the farmland such as wheat, soybeans, etc. are relatively short and are cultivated neatly by row. Each row is parallel to another[12]. Meanwhile, the crops are usually green, the crop rows are consecutive and in line shape or small curvature and the navigation characteristics detected do not mutate

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within a short time[13].However, fruit plants have different height, complex levels and random spatial arrangements, the vision system can hardly detect the obvious and consecutive navigation characteristics and cannot use the algorithm of current farmland visual navigation system directly. The plants of standard fruit trees are really tall with a trunk height of 70-80cm as usual, which makes it more obvious to make a distinction between trunk and background in visual. Based on these characteristics of standard fruit trees, the intersection points of trunks and the ground can be found after highlighting the main trunks. And these points can be used to generate the navigation path. 2.2 Image Acquisition and Laboratory Equipment The Images used in the experiments are collected from the apple orchard in Nanlang village, Qinshui County, Shanxi province and taolin village, Changping District Beijing. The resolution of the collected images is 640 × 480. The image processing computer is configured to be 2.2GHz frequency, 1.25G memory. The simulation platform is Matlab R2009a 2.3 Identification of the Main Area At present, most apple trees are planted in dense manner, but different standard trees have different growth patterns. The apple trees in Nanlang village, Shanxi province are the mixture of both Gala and Fushi, which have similar characteristic with Qiaohua tree whose trunk is about 70-80cm high. Based on this characteristic, the main area of apple tree can be made more visible through the color characteristics of image segmentation. Through the analysis of profile control line graph shown as follows, a suitable partition factor can be found to study the color characteristics of trunks and the background area. As shown in the Figure 2.

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As to the study of line L, R and B pixels are the components of their gray value respectively. The yellow curve represents R-B value. It is easy to find that there is little difference between Red R and Blue B of the trunk area, while R and B of the soil differ a lot and green component of the leaves is a little bit more obvious. R-B can separate the trunk area and the orchard background effectively. It can be seen from the yellow curve that the R-B components of the trunk are in a peak region, while the R-B components of the background area are in the much falter region. The little noise produced in the process of orchard pruning trimming where the branches fell on the ground will be eliminated in later algorithm. Having the original image been transformed into gray level by using the R-B color factors, the optimal segmentation threshold value can be obtained by two-dimensional OTSU algorithm[14]. And then get the gray image diarized, so as to acquire the requested information in the trunk area. The algorithm not only uses the intensity distribution information of the points but also consider the relevant pixel space information among the points, which makes it better than one-dimensional OTSU segmentation algorithm.

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feature points to represent fruit trees, to reduce calculation. As the impact of small branches, a very small amount of noise is still existed in the picture after trunk extraction. By using the area threshold method, an area of less than the maximum area of 1/80 of the region is removed to get a binary image whose trunk area is clear as Figure 5(a) shows. Feature point extraction algorithm is described as follows: 1. Set an empty matrix P, the size is the same as the size of the trunk extraction regional image, marked as M × h . 2. Mark regionally the images whose noise has been removed. Scan each region which represents each fruit tree that has trunk feature. Suppose that there are n regions exist in this image. 3. Scan the marked region k line by line. Setting the current row is row i , tested them one by one by order of the columns. If the pixel value of the current detection point ( i , j ) is k, meanwhile, the meeting point ( i , j − 1) of the pixel values and point ( i + 1, j ) values are both 0, the tested point is suit to the features that the intersection of the trunk and the ground.(Referred as the candidate point). 4. Put the coordinates of the suitable candidate points in region k into the empty matrix P. Test again. Search the point has the largest abscissa value, which means finding the point that is closest to the ground to represent the fruit trees. Set the remaining points as background points. 5. If the detecting area k = n , stop searching. Otherwise, return (3). 6. After scanning the feature points by the above steps, each region will have a unique feature point to represent the fruit tree. By comparing 60 apple pictures which were taken in similar position, different time, different parts, fruit trees--the intersection of the trunk and the ground distribute on both sides of the image according to the probability. Therefore, when the feature points are classified, firstly the vertical midline of the image (half of the total number of columns the image) is taken as the base line of the feature points to classify. When the feature points in the image are on the left, the corresponding coordinates will be saved into array Q1; otherwise, when the feature point in the image are on the right, the corresponding coordinate values will be saved into array Q2. 2.5 Navigation Path Line Detection Similar to crops, fruit trees are naturally formed in a straight line. Similarly, the path of mobile robot in a short time can be approximately seen as a straight line. So the straight-line path model can be used on the study [13].The most generally used line detection methods are the least square method and the Hough transform and some methods based on these forms. This paper takes the intersection points of fruit trees and the ground as the feature points. Feature points in the vision field are limited, so the least square method which has high speed and accuracy, are adopted to test the two junction lines. Finally the robot's navigation path is generated by extracting the center points of the junction line.

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4 Conclusions (1) The color difference R-B and two-dimensional OTSU algorithm was employed to segment the trunk from the background. Dead leaves and soil background did not affect the segmentation of the trunk region. But the algorithm is not effective when processing green weeds on the ground. Morphological method was adopted to eliminate the noises such as tiny branches and fading leaves, horizontal projection method was adopted to dynamically recognize the tree trunks, and the region segmentation was used to eliminate the influence of tiny branches for a second time. This algorithm can extract the main trunk area effectively. (2) By scanning the trunks areas, border crossing points of the bottom of the tree and ground were detected, and these points were divided into two clusters on both sides based on neighboring relationship. Resorting to least-square fitting, two border lines were extracted. The central line was gained by the two lines. It is robust and effective in many orchard environments. The recognition rate is 91.6%. (3) The simulation result is compared with artificial recognition in two orchard environment. The result shows that the generated navigation path is reliable, safe and can satisfy the moving request of harvesting robot. (4) This algorithm is suitable for the orchard where the ground had less weed and the main area of standard trees were more visible. For the stunted trees, if there are more weeds and the background is extremely complex in an orchard, it is better to improve the algorithm or use another method. Acknowledgments. This research is sponsored by the project 2006AA10Z255 and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.30900869). All of the mentioned support is gratefully acknowledged.

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An Agricultural Tri-dimensional Pollution Data Management Platform Based on DNDC Model Lihua Jiang1,2, Wensheng Wang1,2, Xiaorong Yang1,2, Nengfu Xie1,2, and Youping Cheng3 1

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Abstract. DNDC is a computer simulation model of carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry in agro-ecosystems. It is used in agricultural tri-dimensional pollution control widely. Learning from abroad advanced technologies and research methods, we have developed an agricultural tri-dimensional pollution data submission and management platform based on DNDC model. The platform is very important for sharing and building our agricultural carbon and nitrogen chain database. Keywords: DNDC, United Storage, Format Conversion.

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The system has three user roles: central administrator, base administrator and DNDC user. Base administrator collects local base data and submits to platform. Central administrator has all management privilege and can limit base administrator’ management privilege. When DNDC user uses DNDC model, central administrator will give privilege to use assistant DNDC model. DNDC user can be base administrator and central administrator and also other privileged user.

4 Technology Innovation 4.1 Distributional Heterogeneous Agricultural Tri-dimensional Pollution Data Submission Technology The platform solves distributed heterogeneous agricultural tri-dimensional pollution data submission in many nodes technology and provides table views and personal control of submission interface fields display function. At first, user can select needed tables at random in the platform and navigation bar will embody user’ personal selection and provides pointed interface. Secondly, user can select corresponding field attributes of tables and create personal submission interface. It is convenient for different users to operate different operations. Platform provides data submission item by item and batching submission. In submission data item by item interface, formats of submitted data must be controlled seriously when base administrator submits data to central databases. Platform provides description of submitted attributes data format and clear clue of input error. User can realize submit a small quantity of unpacked data correctly. Batching submission: Platform provides two different batching submission methods: importing from Excel files to central database and importing from local database to central database. By the batching submission module provided by system, users can copy data in local database quickly to central database.

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5 Conclusion Combined with our country ecology system actual situation, introducing foreign developed DNDC model and development carbon and nitrogen emission reduction motivation model can help scientists and engineers judge intuitively and make a strategic decision. So we build up a mutual platform in which collect and manage data for DNDC model. For studying agricultural tri-dimension pollution, validation, amendment and operation agricultural tri-dimension pollution carbon and nitrogen emission reduction motivation model needs a lot of data support, so standardization of database is very important. In the platform, database can receive all the collected data from bases administrator. Central system administrator can adjust database according to types of collected data in order to supporting our country actual situation and DNDC model.

Acknowledgements This work is supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2009ZX03001-019-01), Special fund project for Basic Science Research Business Fee, AIIS(Grant No. 2010-J).

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An Analysis on the Inter-annual Spatial and Temporal Variation of the Water Table Depth and Salinity in Hetao Irrigation District, Inner Mongolia, China Jun Du1,2, Peiling Yang1,*, Yunkai Li1, Shumei Ren1, Xianyue Li1, Yandong Xue1, Lingyan Wang1, and Wei Zhao1 1

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Abstract. Long-term Yellow River irrigation and the unique natural conditions in the Heitao Irrigation District (HID) Inner Mongolia, China, has led to serious environmental problems such as the shallower groundwater table and soil secondary salinization, etc. The conflicts among socio-economic development, water shortage and environmental degradation have become increasingly critical. By using the statistical methods, geo-statistical methods and ArcGIS9.0, we analyze the temporal and spatial variation of depth to water table (DWT) and groundwater salinity in the three different irrigation seasons in 2001, 2002 and 2003 respectively. The results show that DWT and groundwater salinity has formed a ribbon distribution after the long-term Yellow River irrigation. DWT is medium spatial correlative and the average spatial autocorrelation distance is 18.5km; the groundwater salinity is strong spatial correlative and the average spatial autocorrelation distance is 12.5km. The inter-annual distribution of DWT and groundwater salinity in 2001 is quite similar with it in 2002 and 2003. The DWT in western area, eastern area and a small part of middle area are shallower than other area in HID. The average DWT in March reached maximum and its minimum is in November each year. There are two high salinity degree zones (M>5000mg/l and even some other M>30000mg/l). The shallower groundwater salinity in the southeast and northwest are higher than that of in the middle part of HID. The shallower water table depth is, the higher the salinity of groundwater will be; the deeper water table depth is, the lower the salinity of groundwater will be. Keywords: Hetao Irrigation District, Depth water table, groundwater salinity, spatial and temporal variation.

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Region, China (Fig.1). The total land area of the HID is about 1.1×104 km2, the irrigable land area is about 0.77×104 km2, but due to salinity problems, the currently irrigated land area is only about 0.57×104 km2. HID is in the mid-temperate zone with continental-monsoon arid climate. The weather is dry and hot during summer and severely cold with little snow in winter. From November to next March is a freeze-thaw period. Mean annual temperature is 6.3~7.7 . During the winter the average air temperature are -10 °C and the soil freezing depths about 1.0 m. The average annual pan evaporation is about 2164 mm. Across HID, the average annual precipitation 168 mm recently 10 years. The the average ground slope is about 1/8000~1/4000 (from southwest to northeast). The ground elevation ranges from 1043 m to 1018 m. The main soil types are irrigation-warping soil and saline soil which was the non-zonal soils in HID. The average soil bulk density (0-100cm) is 1.45 g/cm3 (Yang Jingyu, 2006).

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The most common crops are sunflower, wheat, and corn. Flood irrigation is the most common irrigation method in the HID. The average depth of irrigation is 450 mm. Farmland is typically irrigated 7 times each year in 3 irrigating seasons. The 3 irrigation seasons are: summer irrigation (3 irrigation times, from April to June), the first-autumn irrigation (3 irrigation times, from July to September), and the second-autumn irrigation (1 irrigation times, from October to November). The summer and first-autumn irrigation are during the growing season of the crop. The purpose of the second-autumn irrigation period is to “bank” soil water and leach salt. From 1989 to 2005, the average annual water diversion of irrigation from the Yellow River is 5.2×109 m3 by 1 main canal and 13 sub-main canals. Farmland recession water is drainage into the

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Wuliangsuhai Lake (Fig.1) by 1 main ditch and 10 sub-main ditches (Wang et al., 2004), and the average annual drainage amount was 0.5×109 m3. The water diversion of irrigation in 2001, 2002 and 2003 was 4.89×109 m3, 5.08×109 m3 and 4.1×109 m3 respectively. The salts which are brought by the irrigation water onto the farmland soil averages annually 235.5×108 kg, but the average annual discharged salt from the entire district by drainage is only 75.0×108 kg (Wang et al.,2004). For the period from 1987 to 1997, the average annual salt accumulation was estimated to be 3 mg/ha (Feng et al., 2003). About half of the irrigated cropland is saline-alkali soil (Feng et al., 2005). DWT is typically 1.0~1.5 m during the growing season and about 0.5 m following the second-autumn irrigation (from October to November) (Hao et al., 2008a). Due to the arid climate, the water diversion from Yellow River is critical for agriculture in the HID. There are significant negative effects from flood irrigation and canal seepage. The resulting shallower DWT combined with intensive evaporation has produced a very high threat of soil salinization. About 18.8% of the total land area in the irrigation district has been abandoned because of the salinization problem, and about 43.0% of the irrigated area is significantly impacted salinization problem of various degrees (Qu et al., 2007). Geological structure, geographical conditions, and climate factors determine the hydrological cycle and the resulting potential for salinization. In HID, there are many factors affecting the salinity such as precipitation, evaporation, DWT, and water diversion irrigation from Yellow River (Wang et al., 2007; Yue et al., 2009). The geological structure determines that the major hydrologic pathway for groundwater loss away from the HID is through the phreatic evaporation (Hao et al., 2008a). And the accumulated salt in the deeper soil were dragged into the surface soil in this process. So, the process of groundwater discharge is the dominated factors related to the production, development, and evolution of the soil salinization in HID. Irrigation (precipitation), infiltration, drainage, and groundwater evaporation, create the natural-artificial surface water system that is the most important factor in hydrological cycle for the HID (Hao et al., 2008a). A previous study showed that shallower groundwater had a significant effect on evaporation-transpiration and on soil water salinity. Evaporation exacerbated the surface soil water salinity, while the transpiration reduced the soil water salinity in the growth period of vegetation (Zhang et al., 2004). Climate condition and groundwater level fluctuation were the major environmental factors on the salinization of soil (Chen et al., 1997). Some studies on the salinity and DWT in HID showed that DWT is in 1.5m 2.0m contribute to the crops uptake the groundwater, but to minimize salinizion, DWT should be controlled below 2.0m from the soil surface (Kong, 2009). When the water diversions from the Yellow River to the HID were reduced by 30%, there was resulting higher of DWT and reduction in salinity soil, but there was greater potential for soil water deficit and crop water stress. (Qu et al., 2007). Other researchers have reported on the soil salinization issues in HID such as: saline land improvement, the relationship between the soil salinization and the DWT, the distribution of salt in the soil profile, the salt balance, and the water balance (Yang et a1.,2003; Kong, et a1.,2004;Wang et a1., 2004; Jia et a1.,2006; Gao et a1., 2008a,b). But there are very few studies on the distribution of DWT and groundwater salinity in the entire HID. Therefore, this report is an analysis of the spatial and temporal variation of the DWT and groundwater salinity.

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2 Materials and Methods 2.1 DWT Measurement and Water Samples Analysis In this analysis, the HID was divided into 5 irrigated areas: Yigan, Jiefangzha, Yongji, Yichang and Wulate (Fig.1). There were 178 wells (Fig.2) distributed over the entire District. Seventy-five wells were used to observe the DWT, 42 wells were used to collect groundwater samples, while 61 well were used for both DWT and water samples. measuring line

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2.2 Typical Years and Typical Irrigation Period Data from 2001, 2002 and 2003 years were analyzed to determine the inter-annual variation of DWT and groundwater salinity, which will continue in time and reflects the water diversion for irrigation into the HID. Also in this analysis, the March, July, and November was taken as typical period which was the fluctuation of DWT and the variation of the shallower groundwater salinity. 2.3 Sampling Site Data and Processing The value of DWT and groundwater salinity of 178 observation wells were used to develop the point file with ArcGIS9.0 and project the coordinate transformation to produced the distribution map for the geo-statistical analysis (Fig.1).Then of DWT and groundwater salinity from corresponding sampling points were entered into Arc GIS9.0 to form the attributive data to matched the geographic data of sampling points. 2.4 Correlation Analysis SPSS13.0 was used to analyze the change and relationship between DWT and shallower groundwater in March, July and November respectively. The data of DWT from 7 wells which less affected by the groundwater exploration were selected to analyzed the annual change of DWT each year (Fig.4, 5, 6). The data of 61 wells’ DWT were as abscissa and with the corresponding salinity degree of groundwater as ordinate to make the relation curve to analyze the relationship between the groundwater salinity and DWT (Fig.25) in March, July, and November, respectively. 2.5 Geo-statistical Method and Processing Geo-statistical methods and ArcGIS9.0 were used to analyze the temporal and spatial variation of DWT and groundwater salinity from 2001 to 2003. Geo-statistical methods can be used to describe the spatial variability of environment and reveal the spatial heterogeneity and spatial pattern of natural phenomena (Pebesma et al. 1997). The semi-variogram model and Kriging interpolation are the two main geo-statistical methods used in this analysis (Jin et al.,1999; Sousa et al., 1999; Desbarats et al., 2002; Vijendra et al., 2004; Tong et al., 2007; Wang et al., 2007; Yue et al., 2009; Hu et al.2001, 2009; Husam,2010). To get a better spatial estimation from sampling points, the variance of estimation error should be minimal. The Kriging method was used to obtain the variance of estimate. The advantage of Kriging is that it is the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator of the unknown fields (Journel and Huijbregts, 1992).The Kriging variance of estimate is independent of the actual measurements from the field. Ordinary Kriging interpolation at a point x0 is given by:

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value at point xi, and λi the Kriging weight. To calculate the Kriging variance, the semi-variogram is needed. The semi-variogram (usually called a variogram) is half the variance of measurement differences at all data pairs with the same distance (h). The Kriging variance is given by:

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When computing the semi-variance (h) for different values of h, and when h is plotted versus (h), an experimental semi-variogram was obtained (Fig. 3. Sousa et al., 1999). However the experimental semi-variogram is not applicable in Kriging estimation because it cannot be represented by an equation. A semi-variogram model must then be adjusted to the experimental one, as exemplified in Fig.3 by the fitting of the Spherical equation. The best-fitted semi-variogram model has been used to produce the Kriging variance map. Selection of the best-fitted model was based on the condition that the root-mean-square was close to “0”,the average standard error is minimum, the mean standardized was close to the standard error and the root-mean-square standardized was close to “1” (Tang, 2007). Then GIS-Spatial Analyst tool in ArcGIS9.0 was used to produce a priority map and the best-fitted mode. To obtain Kriging variance, construction of the variogram is needed. The variogram parameters are the sill, nugget, and the range. The nugget is the variogram value at the origin. Sometimes the nugget is different from zero due to measurement error. The

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The ratio of C0: (C0+C) reflected the total spatial heterogeneity. A higher ratio indicates that the stochastic component was the main factor caused the spatial heterogeneity. The ratio of C0: (C0+ C1) was in the range of 25% 75% of the spatial structure of DWT in the three years(Tab. 1). It shown that the spatial structure variation of DWT was not only affected by the structure factors but also by the random factors (the stochastic component). Due to the average annual precipitation is 168 mm and the irrigation water is the mainly recharge source of DWT. So the spatial structure variation of DWT was affected by the time and amount of the agricultural irrigation mainly during the irrigation season. The structure factors such as the terrain, landform and climate would be responsible for the variation of the spatial structure of DWT when the total water diversions of irrigation were reduced. For example, although the water diversions of irrigation in 2003 were reduced to 80% of the average annual water diversions of irrigation and the ratio of C0: (C0+ C1) of the spatial structure of DWT in July and November decreased to 34.3 and 37.5 respectively, the distribution of DWT in July and November 2003 were similar to that of 2001 and 2002(Fig. 8, 11 and 14. Fig. 10, 12 and

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The table 2 shown that the ratio of C0: (C0+ C1) of spatial structure of groundwater salinity varied from 0.3 to 45.7 in the three years. The spatial structure of groundwater salinity had the strong spatial correlation and the average corresponding distance was 12.1km. Since the salt which in the irrigation water (the Yellow River water salt content was 480 mg/l) were the mainly recharge resource of the shallower groundwater salinity, the different water diversions of irrigation would cause the variation of the shallower groundwater salinity. Meanwhile, the waste discharge of industries and civil life also enhanced the variation of it. This result shown that the groundwater salinity was affected by the random factors, such as irrigation water salt, field fertilization and waste discharge of industries and civil life in HID. 3.2 Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Variation of the DWT 3.2.1 Temporal Variation of DWT

The variation of DWT of 7 wells which without the affects of groundwater exploitation were similar among the three years (Fig 4, 5 and 6). Namely, the average DWT value was 2.0 m in January and reached the maximum value (2.5 m) in March, and then decreased to 1.5 m in May after the summer irrigation. Since the agriculture irrigation was gradually decreased from August to September, DWT increased to 2.2 m in September. Following the late autumn irrigation which the irrigation water amount were thirty percent of the total water diversion, the average DWT value rapidly decreased to 1.0 m in November. With the beginning of winter, the DWT gradually increased to 2.0 m by next January. Then, the fluctuation of the DWT completes the annual cycle. These peaks and valleys demonstrated that the time and amount of agricultural irrigation were responsible for the fluctuation of the DWT without the effect of irrigation exploitation in HID.

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3.2.2 Spatial Variation of DWT in Typical Period Owing to the temperature difference between the upper and under boundary of the freezing soil layer, the high absorption energy makes groundwater in air containing zone move towards the freezing layer so that the DWT value of 95% area of HID were in the ranged of 2 3 m in March each year (Fig.7, 10, 13).

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Because the water diversions of irrigation were reduced to 80% of the average annual water diversions of irrigation (52×109 m3) in 2003, and the irrigation water amount were reduced during the summer irrigation season. Therefore, the DWT value of 80% area of HID were in the range of 1.5 2.0 m, and the regions of DWT in the range of 2 3 m were continuously in July 2003(Fig.14). Although the DWT of 80% area of HID were also in the range of 1.5 2.0 m in July 2001, the regions of the DWT in the range of 2.0 3.0 m were scattered over the southwest in HID(Fig.11). In 2002, the total water diversions of irrigation were more than that of other two years. And the

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Fig. 16. Distributing map of groundwater salinity in March, 2001

Fig. 17. Distributing map of groundwater salinity in July, 2001

northern and southern of HID, which the salinity degree was more than 5000 mg/l (red regions) and even, in some local areas, the salinity degree was more than 10000 mg/l. The northern zone was from Dashuwan (west) to Fenzidi (east), the southern zone was from Xishanzui extended to Chengnan and Shulinzi. The groundwater salinity of the major area of Hetao in March and November was M4000 mg/l, respectively. The reasons caused these results were followed: (1) Because the southwest elevation (1043 m) was higher than that of the northwest (1034 m) and the southeast (1018 m). The groundwater horizontal movement was from southwest toward the northwest and southeast. An amount of salt accumulated into the soil and penetrated into groundwater of the northwest and southeast area of HID. Therefore, the groundwater salinity in southeast and northwest were higher (M>5000 mg/l) than that of (M4000 mg/l. With the lateral seepage of soil water and the horizontal movement of groundwater, a lot of salt of which dissolved into soil-water and shallower groundwater was moved away HID during the period from November to the next March. Then, the groundwater salinity of the major area of HID was M5000mg/l and even, in some local areas, M>10000mg/l. Meanwhile, the special irrigation seasons and climate made the maximum and minimum of groundwater of HID appeared in the specific period of September and March, respectively. The groundwater salinity of the major area of HID was more than 4000mg/l in November. With the lateral seepage of soil water and the horizontal movement of groundwater, some of the accumulated salt was drained away HID. The groundwater salinity of the major area of HID was less than 3000 mg/l except the northwest and southeast area in March. There were many factors which influence the variation of the table depth and salinity of groundwater such as climate condition, soil types, quality and time of irrigation water and the terrain of HID etc, and the temporal and spatial variation of these factors was high in the different area. Therefore, the linear relationship between DWT and groundwater salinity were not significant. In some special areas, however, the distribution of DWT could reflect the distribution of the groundwater salinity. Namely the shallower DWT was, the higher the groundwater salinity degree would be. The deeper DWT was, the lower the groundwater salinity would be. In this study, we get the characteristics of the temporal and spatial distribution of DWT and shallower groundwater salinity. We can make the rational agriculture

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planting structure according with these characteristics. For example, planting the crop which are the salt-resistant and drought tolerant in the high salinity areas in order to reduced the amount of the salt which were brought by the irrigation water, and to increased the amount of irrigation water in the second-autumn period to leach more soil salt. This is quite important to maintain the eco-environmental balance in HID.

Acknowledgements This study was supported by the Changjiang River scholar and creative team development plan (IRT0657), the Ministry of water resources community projects: Ecological irrigation district studies on theory basis and supporting technical system (20071025),the research cooperation projects of China agricultural university and Inner Mongolia agricultural university and China agricultural university graduate innovative research(kycx09113).

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An Efficient and Fast Algorithm for Mining Frequent Patterns on Multiple Biosequences Wei Liu1,2 and Ling Chen1,3 1

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Abstract. Mining frequent patterns on biosequences is one of the important research fields in biological data mining. Traditional frequent pattern mining algorithms may generate large amount of short candidate patterns in the process of mining which cost more computational time and reduce the efficiency. In order to overcome such shortcoming of the traditional algorithms, we present an algorithm named MSPM for fast mining frequent patterns on biosequences. Based on the concept of primary patterns, the algorithm focuses on longer patterns for mining in order to avoid producing lots of short patterns. Meanwhile by using prefix tree of primary frequent patterns, the algorithm can extend the primary patterns and avoid plenty of irrelevant patterns. Experimental results show that MSPM can achieve mining results efficiently and improves the performance. Keywords: Biological sequence; Frequent Pattern Mining; Primary Patterns.

1 Introduction Biosequence patterns usually correspond to some important functional (or structural) elements[1] such as conserved sequence patterns, repeated patterns or combinative patterns etc. Hence it is very significative to find such patterns in protein family analysis, transcriptional regulation analysis, and genome annotation etc. The task of biosequence pattern mining [2] is also the key technique for gene recognition, biosequence functional prediction and interactions explanation between sequences. It is one of the most important research areas in biosequence data mining. In the area of data mining, lots of sequential pattern mining algorithms have been proposed in recent years. At present the sequential pattern mining algorithms are mainly classified as two categories: one is for frequent patterns mining on single sequence; the other is for mining in multiple sequences. The former can mine frequent patterns only for single sequence[3-4], and is unable to synchronously analyze the relation between frequent patterns from a certain sequence and those contained in the other sequences. Such analysis is common and necessary in biosequence data mining. For the latter, according to the definition[5] by Agrawal and Srikan in 1995 based on the analysis of transaction data: given a sequence set and a user-specified support D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 178–194, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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threshold, the problem of sequential pattern mining is to find all frequent subsequences, that is to say, the counts of the subsequence appeared in the sequence set are not less than the minimal support threshold. In 1996, Strikant et al. proposed GSP (generalized sequential pattern mining)[6] which introduced the concept of time and level-wise constraints based on Apriori algorithm. It mines all frequent patterns by the use of bottom-up and breadth-first search strategy. But when the sequence database is a large-scale one, large amount of candidates could be produced and the database should be frequently scanned. Especially when the sequences contain long patterns, large amount of short candidate patterns may be generated, which could cause the problem would be intractable and of lower efficiency. In order to solve this problem, in 2000 Pei et al. put forward an algorithm named Prefixspan[7] based on pattern growth approach. It adopts divide and conquer method and continuously produces much smaller projected databases so as to mine frequent patterns. Since no candidates are produced in the algorithm, search space is greatly reduced. Its main cost is on the construction of projected databases and its performance is much higher than Aprioribased algorithms. Other recent works on sequential pattern mining algorithms have been surveyed in [8] by Han et al. However, because of the particularity and variety of mining requirements for biological data, the previous developed methods can not be applied directly to the large-scale biological data mining. Therefore extensive efforts have been devoted to developing some special mining algorithms for biological data, such as PTR-based algorithms[9-10] by Apostolico et al., ATR-based algorithms[11-18] by Delgrange et al. and TRFinder algorithm[19] by Beason. Later Kurtz presented REPuter[15] algorithm based on suffix tree which overcame the limitation of the length of input sequences. It was based on sequence alignment technique but could hardly find those frequent repeats among DNA sequences. In 2007, Wang et al made researches on searching for the similar repeated segments[20] and then introduced a new criteria of similarity and the concept of SATR(segment-similarity based approximate tandem repeats). They designed an algorithm SUA_SATR [21] based on SUA with no limitations on pattern length during the searching process. Moreover, with the same similarity, the algorithm is faster than other traditional algorithms for the same DNA sequence, although its efficiency should be improved. In 2007 Xiong et al. proposed BioPM algorithm[22] specially for protein sequence mining. They introduce the concept of multiple supports so as to overcome the disadvantages of traditional algorithms and improve its performance and efficiency. But when the minimal support becomes lower, it can not keep its high efficiency since numerous projected databases are constructed. In addition, the algorithm still produces large numbers of irrelevant short patterns during the mining process. In 2009, Guo et al. addressed MBioPM algorithm[23] which is an improvement of BioPM algorithm. Based on a pattern partitioning scheme, the algorithm successfully avoids constructing large amount of projected databases. But when the lengths of the patterns exceed k, it requires a large buffer for frequent patterns mining which resulted in huge memory space cost. Moreover, it also takes large amount of time to align the existing patterns with those in the buffer. All these large time-space costs will cause the low efficiency of the algorithm.

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To overcome the problems of traditional sequential pattern mining algorithms mentioned above, we present a fast and efficient algorithm named MSPM for multiple biosequence mining. The algorithm mines all frequent patterns rapidly based on the prefix tree of primary frequent patterns which reflects more biological meanings. Our empirical studies on the tested data from pfam protein database show that MSPM algorithm can obtain higher performance and efficiency than the traditional mining algorithms.

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Lemma 3. For a string S, the average length of the primary patterns with respect to all characters in S will be not more than C ( S ) . Proof. From lemma 2, we know that the summation of the lengths of all the primary nx patterns of S satisfies ∑ ∑ s x (i ) ≤ C ( S ) • S . Furthermore, by lemma 1 we also x∈C ( S ) i =1

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shows that X has far more important effect on explaining the variable Y. Learning from Table 2, we can know that health status(X2), education level (X1), vocational skills(X4), training experience(X5) are all significant factors influencing the off-farm employment of the rural area. However, the working area(X3) is inferior in influencing the off-farm employment of the rural area. Recently, government has paid more attention to the labor force of the rural area. With the development of the “Rural Labor Force Training Sunshine Project”, the situations such as low level of education of the migrate workers, lacking necessary vocational skills have been ameliorated to some extent, making them more competitive in the process of the urbanization. Table 2. Values of VIP

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Fig. 6. The standard distance of the sample points

4 Suggestions and Solutions According to the study, the labor force training, education, vocational skills, and health status are main factors influencing the off-farm employment while working area only has a slight impact. In order to solve the problems mentioned above, the government should increase the training of the rural labor force and the training should focus on improving the professional skills of rural labor force. In order to improve the quality of the rural labor force, we should as well strengthen the rural education, implement variety of effective education forms and continue promoting the “Rural Labor Force Training Sunshine Project”. Only thus can we truly ameliorate the situation of the off-farm employment in the rural area.

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Abstract. This paper studies and analyzes the income difference among Chinese rural residents from 1997 to 2008 through absolute difference indices and relative difference indices. It comes to the conclusion that the absolute income difference among rural residents in China has been increasing year by year, while the relative difference remains around the average level and tends to increase in fluctuations in recent years. The paper also discusses the results and proposes corresponding countermeasures. Keywords: Income Difference, Rural Residents, Analysis.

1 Introduction Since the reform and opening up, China’s economy has maintained a momentum of rapid development. But the income of residents, especially those in rural areas, has not increased along with the economy, causing a big gap between productivity and consumption level, which inevitably hampers the sustainable economic development. Therefore, to keep residents’ income growth in line with economic development has both social and economic significance. As China is a large agricultural country, rural residents’ income growth is especially important, which is also the starting point of this study.

2 Measurement of Income Difference The selection of method and index system for measuring residents’ income difference is directly related to the accuracy and rationality of the results. Currently, there are two kinds of basic indices for studying income difference: one is absolute difference measurement, e.g. standard deviation, weighted standard deviation and average deviation; the other is relative difference measurement, e.g. extreme value deviation, variation coefficient, Gini coefficient, Lorenz curve and Theil index. Generally these indices can reflect the overall difference and changes of residents’ income. The paper analyzes the income difference among Chinese rural residents in recent years through standard deviation, weighted standard deviation, average deviation, Gini coefficient and Theil index respectively. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 219–226, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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2.4 Gini Coefficient (G) Gini coefficient is commonly used to measure inequality of income, consumption or any other things. It calculates the inequality index based on the Lorenz Curve. A practical way is to use a formula deducted by triangle method, i.e. rank income in increasing order and divide the total population into n income groups (no need to divide into equal parts by proportion). Assume the population of the ith group account for Pi of total population, and the income account for Ii (i=1, 2, …, n) of total income, then the cumulative proportion of population from 1st to ith group Mi=P1+… +Pi, and the cumulative proportion of income Qi=I1+…+Ii. The formula of Gini Coefficient is: n−1

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abstracts. If they try to go beyond this point, they are automatically asked, whether they would like to order the pdf, and are given instructions as to how to do so. 3.1 Data Source The data in this paper are sourced from China Statistical Yearbook 1997-2008, and basic data including population and rural residents’ per capita net income are selected according to the measurement indices. 3.2 Analysis of Absolute Difference According to results in Table 1, we can observe changes in absolute difference of Chinese rural residents’ per capita net income, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 shows intuitively that the absolute difference increases year by year during 1997 and 2008, and the change trend of the three indices are exactly the same. Standard deviation for instance, increases slowly from 910.82 of 1997 to 1252.36 of 2003, and rapidly from 1341.89 of 2004 to 2150.52 of 2008, showing distinct phase characteristics. Table 1. Standard deviation, weighted standard deviation and average deviation of Chinese rural residents’per capita net income from 1997 to 2008 Years

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Average Deviation (D) 677.49 700.71 728.78 779.98 837.18 897.31 952.59 1018.11 1178.57 1311.22 1437.33 1586.86

Naturally, from a statistical view, the calculation of standard deviation and other indices are impacted by changes of mean value, i.e. the increase of Chinese rural residents’ per capita net income can be summarized in part as the improvement of overall income per capita. Figure 2 shows that the increase of standard deviation, weighted standard deviation and average deviation of Chinese rural residents’ annual per capita net income is consistent with the rising trend of overall net income per capita. It confirms that the rise of net income per capita contributes to the increase of

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absolute indices of rural residents’ annual net income per capita. Accordingly, there must be certain error if standard deviation and other indices are used to study the income difference. Therefore, to eliminate the influence of this factor, relative difference indices shall be combined with absolute differences for further analysis.

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3.3 Analysis of Relative Difference From Table 1, Figure 3 and 4, we can see that from 1997 to 2004, the relative difference of Chinese rural residents’ per capita net income evolved as follows: First, Gini coefficient changed insignificantly from 0.401 in 1997 to 0.4097 in 2008, while obvious fluctuation appeared from 1998 to 2002 as decrease after

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increase. During the 12 years from 1997 to 2008, Gini coefficient was always around 0.41, which shows that the income gap is relatively reasonable or a little large, and the gap tended to widen especially from 2006 to 2008. Second, the Theil index slightly slipped from 0.3477 in 1997 to 0.3339 in 2008. It is not difficult to find out that the Theil index also fluctuates during the 12 years. In general, however, the disequilibrium of rural residents’ per capita net income appears to be at average level or slightly decreasing. Table 2. Gini coefficient and Theil index of Chinese rural residents’ per capita net income from 1997 to 2008 Years

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Theil index (T) 0.37 0.36 0.35 0.34 0.33 0.32 0.31 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Fig. 4. Changes in Theil index of Chinese rural residents’ per capita net income from 1997 to 2008

4 Discussion and Proposal According to the above analysis, the absolute difference indices of Chinese rural residents’ income over the 12 years from 1997 to 2008 are enlarging year by year, with obvious phase characteristics; the relative difference indices appear to be at average level in general, but the Gini coefficient tends to increase in fluctuations in recent years. Therefore, the rural residents’ income gap is widening in China. Appropriate income gap can stimulate competition and break the absolute equalitarianism to promote economic development. However, as the gap is significantly widening, if we don’t take corresponding measures, the trend will continue for a long term to cause excessive disparity in income, which will easily influence the social stability and hamper the economic development. Therefore, we should fully understand how rural residents’ income gap may influence social economy to correctly handle the relations between efficiency and impartiality. Instead of placing our hope on the natural evolution of economy, we shall consciously and actively adjust and improve development policies for different regions to control the current rural residents’ income gap in a certain range, and allow the existing gap to promote instead of hampering the economic development. To this end, we put forward the following proposals: First, establish corresponding policies and measures to support agricultural development, increase funds to support agriculture, invest more in basic education, support rural infrastructure construction and social undertaking development, identify scientific rural industrial development strategy, and promote industrialization and urbanization in rural areas. Second, increase rural residents’ income, while narrowing their education gap and improving their quality. For low-income areas in particular, we shall encourage intellectual work and investment through macro control while actively improving farmers’ income level so as to increase the income of professional technicians and managers, prevent loss of talents and resources, and ensure the development potential of low-

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income areas. Meanwhile, we shall offer preferential policies to attract the transfer of labor, technology and fund to the backward areas. Third, regulate distribution principle, crack down illegal earnings and adjust tax system. We shall adjust and improve income distribution system, protect legitimate earnings and adopt differentiated support policies for different areas to reduce farmers’ burden. Fourth, another way to increase rural residents’ income is to ensure equal opportunity to earn income. The government should ensure social members have a basic and equal start when they enter the society, i.e. each individual in the society should have equal fundamental rights including the equal right to existence, employment, education and relocation, etc.

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Analysis of Secretary Proteins in the Genome of the Plant Pathogenic Fungus Botrytis Cinerea Zhang Yue, Yang Jing, Liu Lin, Su Yuan, Xu Ling, Zhu Youyong, and Li Chengyun* Key Laboratory of Agro-biodiversity and Pest Management of the Education Ministry of China, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, 650201, China [email protected]

Abstract. The signal peptides prediction algorithm SignalP v3.0, subcellular protein location prediction algorithm TargetP.v1.1, potential GPI-anchor sites prediction algorithm big-PI predictor, trans-membrane domains prediction algorithm TMHMM v2.0 and bioinformatics algorithm MEME were used to analyze 16446 protein sequences of Botrytis cinerea. The results showed that there were 579 deduced secretary proteins. Among these proteins, the minimum and maximum of open read frame were 102 bp and 4848 bps respectively and mean score was 1271 bps. The signal peptides’ length was concentrated to 16~39 amino acids and the average length was 21. 122 of these proteins contain the highly conserved host-targeting-motif RxLx within 100 residues adjacent to the signal peptide cleavage site. According to PEDNAT and COG of GenBank database, this motif’s functions include metabolism modification and cell secretion etc. We blast those putative secretary proteins with RxLx motif in GenBenk and found 47.54% of them have highly conserved homologues in other species, among them 74.1% have putative protein domains. This means these proteins may be more stable or earlier origin. We suppose these proteins are candidate participating in the pathogenesis of Botrytis cinerea but we still need more experimental evidence to confirm their definite functions. Keywords: Botrytis host-targeting-motif.

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Botrytis cinerea belongs to Deuteromycotina and is a widespread phytopathogenic fungus causing disease in a substantial number of economically important crops [1]. It causes Gray-mold rot or Botrytis blight and affects most vegetable and fruit crops, as well as a large number of shrubs, trees, flowers, and weeds. It also has a beneficial role in the production of rare dessert wines. The genome sequence information of Botrytis cinerea was released in 2005 and was helpful for us to understand this ascomycete's complex developmental life cycle, Pathogenesis mechanisms and interactions with its different host plants. *

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Protein is the basic function element of living organism. Many pathogenic microbes could secrete kinds of proteins into the host cell to facilitate its infection process [2]. So analysis of secreted proteins in the pathogen’s genome will be helpful to reveal its pathogenesis mechanisms. The secreted proteins used to be synthesized by ribosome and need a transport process to secrete outside the cells. There are two mechanisms for peptides transportation. The fist is cotranslational transfer. In this way, synthesized partial signal peptide combined to endoplasmic reticulum and the secreted proteins were synthesized meanwhile entered the endoplasmic reticulum, after moderated by endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex they were secreted outside. The second is posttranslational translocation. By this mechanism the complete proteins were synthesized and then were transported for modifying with the help of leader peptide [3]. In both mechanisms, the signal peptide has played the fundamental role. The signal peptide was usually composed by 10 to 60 amino acids. It contained a hydrophobic region (H-region) which was constituted by 6 to 15 amino-acid residues in the center and hydrophilic N terminal and C terminal at the both sides [4]. According to Gunter Blobel’s signal peptide hypothesis, secretary protein’s destiny was decided by its signal peptide and this peptide will be cut off when the protein arrive its destination. So we can decide whether a protein is a secretary protein by analysis of its signal peptide of N terminal [5]. Several software had been developed to indentify the signal peptide in the protein. Lee used SignalP(v2.0) analyzed 47 secretary protein and 47 other proteins of Candida albicans, it shows that the putative results of this software is credible [6]. The interactions between pathogens and their hosts is a hot spot for scientific research recently. How the secretary proteins entered the plant cells and play their function is still not clear now. Bacteria’s type III secretary system have been illustrated by many researchers, but the pathway of the eukaryotic pathogen’s secretary proteins is still unclear [7, 8]. There is a report revealed that during the process of Plasmodium Falciparum infected erythrocyte, most of secretary proteins which will be injected into erythrocyte contain an RxLxE/D/Q motif at 60 amino-acid residues downstream the cutting site of the signal peptide [9]. Souvik Bhattacharjee also indicated that RxLx motif also existed in hundreds of pathogenic secretary proteins of Phytophthora infestans which play the same function as RxLxE/D/Q motifs of Plasmodium Falciparum. Plasmodium Falciparum and Phytophthora infestans are far related and infect animal and plant respectively; they should have different pathogenic process and mechanism, so RxLx motif may be a conserved signal recognition motif of eukaryotic pathogen [10]. In this study, we try to make use of the genome data to indicate how many secretary proteins contained by Botrytis cinerea and whether RxLx motif exist in this saprophytic fungi’s secretary proteins and play pathogenic function.

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proteins in the database (http://www.broad.mit.edu/annotation/genome/botrytis_cinerea/ Home.html), by the use of signal putative software SignalP (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/ services/SignalP/) [11], subcellular organelle located software TargetP (http: //www.cbs. dtu.dk/services/TargetP1.1) [12, 13], anchoring protein analysis software big-PIPredicto (http://mendel.imp.ac.at/sat/gpi/gpi_server) [14] and transmembrane helix analysis software TMHMMServer (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TMHMM) [15], we selected those proteins with signal peptide (satisfied L=-918.235-123.455*(Mean.S.score)+ 1983.44*(HMM scores) and L>0) [6], secreted outside the cells not to other subcellular organelle, not anchoring protein and didn’t contain transmembrane helix as secretary proteins. Then we use MEME(Multiple Expectation Maximization for Motif Elicitaion) [16] to test whether these putative secretary proteins contain RxLx motif and whether there exist conserved amino-acid residue at the two sides of this motif. Then the graph was produced by software LOGO [17] according to the result of MEME. We also compared the sequence of these putative secretary proteins with RxLx motif to PEDNAT database（http://pedant.gsf.de/index.jsp）and searched them in the COG database from GeBank（http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/COG/old/xognitor.html）to find and categorized the putative functions of these proteins. At last, we blast these sequence in the GeBank (BLASTP 2.2.17 (Jun-24-2007)（http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/）try to find the homologues of these proteins and conjectured their functions.

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As figure 1 showed, we get 868 proteins contained the signal peptide in the Botrytis cinerea’s genome, among them 579 proteins which account for 3.52% of the Botrytis cinerea’s genes were predicted to be secretary proteins by the method have been mentioned.

16446 hypothetical proteins After signalpv3.0: N-terminal signal peptide prediction（868 proteins) After TargetP1.1: Protein location analysis (837 secreted proteins) After TMHMMServer2.0: Transmembrane domains analysis (607 proteins) After Big-PI Predictor: GPI-anchor proteins analysis (579 proteins) Fig. 1. Analysis flow chart of Botrytis cinerea secretary proteins

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Fig. 2. The ORF length distribution of 284 secretary proteins in Botrytis cinerea

Fig. 3. The signal peptide length distribution of 284 secretary proteins in Botrytis cinerea

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Fig. 4. Logo shows the conservation of the RxLx motif from predicted Botrytis cinerea secretary proteins The motifs are highlighted in board letters in the table. Abbreviations for amino acid residues: A, Ala; C, Cys; D, Asp; E, Glu;F, Phe; G, Gly; H, His; I, Ile; K, Lys; L, Leu; M, Met; N, Asn; P,Pro; Q, Gln; R, Arg; S, Ser; T, Thr; V, Val; W, Trp; Y, Tyr.

Fig. 5. Functional categorization of putative secretary proteins containing RxLx motif which have function descriptions in COG database

The average length of the predicted secretary proteins of Botrytis cinerea is 1271bp; the longest one and the shortest one are 4848bp and 102bp respectively. From figure 2, we can find that the most of them are 500-2000bp, which account for 72.19% of all the genes. The average length of these secretary proteins’ peptide is 21 amino-acid

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residues, the longest one is 39 and the shortest one is 16. The figure 3 showed the length distribution of these proteins’ peptide. 540 of them are 17-25 amino-acid residues which account for 93.3% of all and proteins with 19 amino-acid residues come up to 109 proteins (18.8%). We analyzed the all these putative secretary proteins by MEME software and found that there are 122 proteins (21% of total) contain RxLx motif within the 100 amino-acid residues downstream of the cutting site of signal peptide. The report had showed that Plasmodium Falciparum’s pathogenic secretary proteins had conserved E, D or Q fowled the RxLx motif while Phytophthora infestans didn’t. But from the figure 4, we can found that there more A, G, L and S appeared at the downstream and upstream of the RxLx motif in Botrytis cinerea. A, G and L are all nonpolar amino acid and S is polar neutral amino acid. The most conserved amino-acid residue followed the RxLx motif is D. This is just the same as Plasmodium Falciparum. Then we categorized the putative functions of these proteins by COG of GenBank (figure 5). There are only 26 (21.3%) proteins found in COG and by categorized into 11 different kinds of functions. Most of them are related to amino-acid metabolism (23.08%). For further predicted the functions of our putative secretary proteins, we compared them in the PEDANT database but only 6 of them have the specific function description (Table 1). The most of them are related to cell metabolism and some of them also appeared in the Phytophthora infestans’s pathogenic secretary proteins. Table 1. The functional description of secretary proteins containing the RxLx motif in Botrytis cinerea Gene name

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may act as a sorting receptor in the delivery of vacuolar hydrolases, partial peptidylprolyl isomerase tripeptidyl peptidase hypothetical protein similar to alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase hypothetical protein similar to aspartic proteinase precursor hypothetical protein similar to aspartyl protease

Then we blast all these proteins in the GenBank and found that 58 proteins have high conserved homologues (E-value〈1×10-20 and identities〉40%) in other species (accounted for 47.54% of all predicted proteins) and most of them have putative conserved protein domains (Table 2). Then we selected 7 the most conserved (have more than 50 homologues) proteins and marked out the location of their RxLx motif and protein domains (Figure 6). We can see that in 6 proteins, the motif appeared within the first 10 amino-acid residues of the C terminals of their protein domains.

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Table 2. The blast results of putative secretary proteins include RxLx motif

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By application of software of bioinformatics’ analysis, we found 579 putative secretary proteins and 122 (21%) of them contained Host-Targeting-motif RxLx within the 100 amino-acid residues downstream of their cutting sites in the genome of Botrytis cinerea. The length of most of these proteins and their signal peptide are moderate. RxLx motif spread in the secretary proteins of this kind of saprophytic fungi indicate they maybe play functions in this fungus’s pathogenic secretary pathways. But we still need experiment evidence to conform this hypothesis. By compared these proteins contain RxLx motif in the PEDANT database and COG of GenBank, we seldom found the definite description to them. For those proteins with description in COG, most of them are related to cell metabolism and cellular process. Interestingly, among these proteins, BC1G_06540 is described as an aspartic proteinase precursor. It is had already been revealed that Botrytis cinerea could secreted aspartic proteinase into its host cell during its pathogenic process [18]. Researchers also found that the a pathogens infected the plant, it must break through the plant cell’s physical outline such as cell wall as well as changed the inner environment of host cells to fit themselves. In this process, their secretions must play the most important roles [19]. Considered other 5 RxLx motif containing proteins with definite descriptions in PEDANT database are all enzymes involved in the cell metabolism and the categorization with most proteins by COG is related to amino-acid metabolism, we supposed that maybe Botrytis cinerea need secreted proteinase into the plant cells in its pathogenic process. Blast these RxLx motif containing proteins in the GenBank, we find that 47.54% of them have high conserved homologues in other species and most have the conserved protein domains. This indicates these proteins with RxLx motif are conserved during the evolution process or early originated in the history. Most of the homologues contained in fungi but still some appeared in higher eukaryotes. Among them, BC1G_14702, BC1G_14244, BC1G_05799 and BC1G_06035 contained huge number of homologues distributed in so many different kinds of plants and animals. This indicated that maybe these genes played the irreplaceable role in organisms as well as Botrytis cinerea. BC1G_05799 had been depicted as peptidylprolyl isomerase in both COG and PEDANT database. This kind of protein interconverts the cis and trans isomers of peptide bonds with the amino acid proline and involved in many cellular process. The 6 of 7 RxLx motifs in the highest conserved putative secretary proteins are all located at the N terminal of their protein domains. Interestingly, the description of protein domains contained by these 7 proteins indicated they all maybe involved in the secretion process even in the pathogenic process. Cerato-platanin had been reported as a kind of phytotoxic protein which was secreted by Ceratocystis fimbriata f.sp. platani [20]. FKBP_C is related to protein synthesis and locate of plant plasmids [21]. Glyco_hydro_7 is a kind of glycosyl hydrolase which was secreted to destroy cellulose in the plant cell [22]. SpeB have been reported as a kind of virulent effectors secreted by Group A Streptococcal [23]. GPI8 is related to the synthesis of phosphatidylinositol anchor protein which could anchor it to the cell surface [24]. So these proteins may play

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their functions in the Botrytis cinerea’s secretion pathway and contributed to its pathogenic process. Most of pathogenic proteins reported now are secretary proteins. In this article we predicted 579 secretary proteins and 122 of them contain Host-Targeting-motif RxLx which could be treated as candidate pathogenic proteins of Botrytis cinerea. Although we still need experiment to prove whether these proteins contributed to pathogeneses, find these candidate proteins will accelerate our understandings of pathogenic mechanism of Botrytis cinerea. Many software used to analyze the protein had been proved effective and it is conveniently for us to understand the information lied in the genome by the help of them.

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Analysis of the Heat Transfer Performance of Vapor-Condenser during Vacuum Cooling Gailian. Li, Tingxiang Jin*, and Chunxia Hu School of Mechanical & Electricity engineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, 5 Dong Feng Road, Zhengzhou 450002, Henan Province, P.R. China Tel.: +86-371-63556785 [email protected]

Abstract. The heat transfer performance of vapor-condenser has been studied under different temperature of cold trap and different thickness of the frost layer in this paper. The relationship between dimensionless number Nu and Kn is obtained. The results show that the capturing efficiency of cold trap increases with the decrease of the surface temperature of vapor-condenser. The frost accumulated on the surface of vapor-condenser can cause the overall heat transfer coefficient decrease, which has a negative effect on heat transfer of vaporcondenser. Kn has an effect on the heat transfer of vapor-condenser during vacuum cooling. Keywords: Heat transfer performance; Vapor-condenser; Cold trap; Vacuum cooling.

1 Introduction Vacuum cooling is a rapid evaporative cooling method. Vacuum cooling has been successfully used to cool vegetables and flowers since the 1950s [1]. In the recent years, for the safety of foods, a rapid cooling treatment after cooking process should be used to minimize the growth of surviving organisms. Compared with the conventional cooling methods, vacuum cooling has many advantages. Therefore, many researches have highlighted the applications of vacuum cooling for the cooked meats [2-4]. In addition, heat and mass transfer characteristics during vacuum cooling have been investigated. Predictive models can provide much valuable information for the cooling process of large cooked meat joints under broad experimental conditions within a short time. Wang and Sun have developed a mathematical model for describing the vacuum cooling process of the large cooked meat joints [5-7]. A vacuum cooler is a machine to maintain the defined vacuum pressure in a sealed chamber, where the boiling of the water in the cooked meats occurs to produce the cooling effect. Theoretically, only the speed of vacuum pump is high enough to produce the defined vacuum pressure in the vacuum chamber. However, at a low pressure, the volume ratio of steam and water is very large. For example, when the pressure is 1073 Pa, the corresponding saturation temperature is 8 , the specific

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2 Experimental Apparatus The laboratory-scale vacuum cooler as shown in Fig. 1 was built by Shanghai Pudong Freezing Dryer Instruments Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China). Vacuum cooler has four basic components: a vacuum chamber, a vacuum pump, a vapor-condenser and a refrigeration system. The vapor-condenser is an evaporator in the refrigeration system and a condenser capturing water vapor evaporated from the cooked meats during vacuum cooling. The cooling coil of vapor-condenser is set up in a stainless cylindrical steel, which is enclosed with 30 mm thickness polyurethane foam to prevent heat transfer. The stainless cylindrical steel with vapor-condenser is defined as cold trap. The water vapor is evaporated from the cooked meats during vacuum cooling. The vaporcondenser and vacuum pump removes the water vapor and air to reduce the pressure in the vacuum chamber. Because of the large temperature difference between the cold trap and the water vapor, the large amount of water vapor can enter into the cold trap. One part of water vapor is condensed into water by liquefaction, and the other part of water vapor become frost on the surface of vapor-condenser by solidification.

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frost layer is measured by an unsteady state method using a line heat thermal conductivity probe, based on the design of Sweat as described by Scully [13, 14]. The thickness of frost layer is directly determined by a micrometer having a 0.1mm resolution.

3 Theoretical Analysis of Heat Transfer in Cold Trap 3.1 The Formation Mechanism of the Frost on the Surface of Vapor-Condenser Fig. 2 shows the formation process of frost. The sensible heat is transferred from the water vapor in the cold trap to the frost surface by the temperature difference driving Sensible heat transfer Latent heat transfer Frost surface Heat transfer by conduction

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force between the water vapor and the frost surface. Some of the transferred moisture deposits on the frost layer, causing the frost layer to grow. The remainder diffuses into the frost layer. The heat of sublimation caused by the phase change of the added frost layer is transferred through the frost layer. The latent heat and sensible heat transferred from the water vapor are then transferred through the frost layer by conduction. The water vapor diffusing into the frost layer changes phase within the frost layer. The frost density increases as a result of this process. The frost layer is a porous medium composed of ice crystal and air. The ice crystal has different shapes during the formation of the frost layer. Ice crystal shapes are classified into main forms: plate-like forms and column-like forms. The microscopic structure of ice crystal is shown as in Fig. 3 [9]. During the formation of the frost, the mass flux through water vapor diffusing into the frost layer can be calculated by the Clapeyron-Clausius equation. The expression is as follows [10]:

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4 Result and Discussion 4.1 The Influence of the Frost Layer on Heat Transfer in Cold Trap Fig. 4 shows the experimental data for the thermal conductivity of the frost. The time ranges, for which the data were taken, are given on Fig. 4. When the experimental temperature of cold trap is –45 , the average thermal conductivity of the frost layer

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Fig. 5 shows the heat transfer coefficient in different thickness of the frost layer. When the thickness of the frost layer is 1 mm, the heat transfer coefficient is about 4.4

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trap, the thick frost layer has the low thermal conductivity. Which increases the heat transfer resistance between the surface of vapor-condenser and the water vapor. With the increment of thickness and density of the frost layer, the heat transfer resistance between the surface of vapor-condenser and the water vapor increases, the temperature of cold trap become high so that the capturing efficiency of cold trap gets more and more low.

Fig. 6. The influence of temperature of cold trap on the capture efficiency

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4.3 The Influence of Vacuum Pressure on Heat Transfer in Cold Trap It is assumed that the gas in cold trap is diatomic. The ratio of specific heat of diatomic ( γ ) is 1.4. The relationship between Nu and Kn can be given in Eq. (14). Fig. 7 gives the variation between Nu and Kn in the different thermal accommodation factor. Kn is correlated with the vacuum pressure. It can be found that Nu decreases when the vacuum pressure in cold trap decreases. This is because convection heat can reduce at low vacuum pressure. Nu at the high thermal accommodation factor (1.0) is higher than that at the low thermal accommodation factor (0.8). The variation of Nu is opposite to the variation of Kn .

5 Conclusion The heat transfer performance of vapor-condenser has been studied in different temperature of cold trap and different thickness of the frost layer in this paper. The lower the temperature of cold trap is, the more water vapor is captured. At the same time, because of the low temperature in cold trap, water vapor become frost at the surface of vapor-condenser and on the wall of cold trap. The frost layer is a porous medium composed of ice crystal and air. The low thermal conductivity of the frost layer has a negative effect on heat transfer of vapor-condenser. When the accumulated frost at the surface of vapor-condenser becomes thick, the capturing efficiency of cold trap will decrease. In addition, the relationship between dimensionless number Nu and Kn is obtained, the variation of Nu is opposite to the variation of Kn .

Acknowledgements Funding for this research was provided by Henan Provincial Department of Education (P. R. China).

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Analysis on Dynamic Characteristics of Landscape Patterns in Hailer and around Areas Hongbin Zhang1,2,3, Guixia Yang1,2,3, Qing Huang2,3, Gang Li1,2,3, * Baorui Chen1,2,3, and Xiaoping Xin1,2,3, 1

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Abstract. This paper analyzed the spatial-temporal dynamic changes of landscape patterns in Hailer and around areas. Firstly, landscape patterns types of research area were divided into water, sand, farmland, city and grassland based on remote sensing images of 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2001 and field investigation. Then the grassland was classified into higher coverage grassland, high coverage grassland, medium coverage grassland and low coverage grassland by Normalized Difference Vegetation Index. Finally, the spatial-temporal dynamic changes of above-mentioned eight kinds of landscape patterns were analyzed using landscape ecology principle. The results indicated that human activities intensified significant from 1986 to 2001in research area. The area of grassland landscape decreased quickly, and the fragmentation extent intensified. The dominant landscape in research area changed from higher-high coverage grassland to medium-low coverage grassland. The expansion of sand landscape is obvious in periphery of road, city and farmland. The grassland vegetation degenerated seriously. Fragmentation of city landscape lightened, and city landscape patches tended to decrease and centralized. Economy development pattern of research area is in a stage that is transforming from extensive pattern to intensive urbanization pattern. Keywords: Landscape patterns, Hulunbuir, Spatial-Temporal Dynamic.

1 Introduction Landscape spatial patterns are strongly connected with dynamic procession (Wu Jianguo et al., 2001; Nagendra H et al., 2006). Biologic factors, abiotic factors and human factors drive landscape patterns spatial-temporal evolution together and restrict development direction of ecological process. Analysis on landscape patterns spatialtemporal evolution can open out driving mechanism and development trend of *

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ecological process (Su Y et al., 2005; Wu R et al., 2002; Huang Qing et al., 2007; He Chunyang et al., 2001; Zhang Yili, et al., 2006). In the study of grassland degeneration, analysis on the landscape patterns spatial-temporal evolution makes for understanding relations between landscape pattern and grassland degeneration process and provides scientific foundations on grassland ecological system management and recovery(Wang Hui et al., 2006; Wamg Mulan et al., 2007; Wamg Mulan et al., 2007). So many experts and scholars devote themselves to studying landscape patterns spatial-temporal evolution in grassland deterioration process. But most of them focus on highly degraded grasslands. Their natural habitats are not good and they are very easy to be disturbed by outside environment (Li Yuechen et al., 2006; Cao Chengyou et al., 2006; Tao Weiguo et al., 2007; Chen quangong et al., 2007; Chen Quangong et al., 1998; Wang Qian et al., 2007; Li Jianpinget al., 2006; Wu Yunna et al., 2000; Liu Xuelu et al., 2000; Zhang Tao et al., 2007;). So almost nobody studies meadow steppe grassland and their ecology recovery functions are very good. Hulunbuir grassland is one of the grasslands which are conserved most completed (Pan Xueqing et al., 1992). It has unique location features and typical ecological system features and advanced pasture animal husbandry production and management methods. At the same time, it is an important husbandry manufacturing base in northern China fescue grassland (Lo Bo et al., 1997; Lu Xinshi et al., 2002). But since the 1980s, under pressures of economy development and accretion of population, area of farmland and towns has been increasing rapidly in Hulunbuir grassland and degeneration tendency is still very serious. Vegetation productivity has fallen significantly. Sand expands promptly. Landscape spatial pattern changes violently. Especially Halaer area and surrounding area are typical representing regions in which human actions influence most strongly (Liu Dongxie et al., 2007; Komatsu Y et al., 2005; Zhao Huiying et al., 2007; Zhang Deping et al., 2007; Ma Yuling et al., 2004; Nie Haogang et al., 2005). So association study on intra-regional landscape spatial pattern has important academic value and useful efforts in Hulunbuir grassland ecological system management and recovery (Ren Jizhou et al., 1998).

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5 Conclusion This paper presented a new type of onboard field 3D topography surveying system. The experiment result indicated that the influence of the tractor’s speed to the measurement accuracy was obvious and the measurement accuracy in slow speed was greater than in the fast speed. Different speed should be adopted according to the field condition when doing measurement with onboard field 3D topography surveying system. Slow and uniform speed was important to guarantee the measurement accuracy.

Acknowledgement This research is sponsored by the project 2008BAB38B06 and 2009BAC55B01. All of the mentioned support is gratefully acknowledged.

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Implementation of Agro-environmental Information Service System Based on WebGIS Lin Peng1,2, Linnan Yang2,*, and Limin Zhang2 1

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Abstract. Faced to the present agro-environmental information features, there exist several difficulties to acquire and control the agricultural environment information, such as the scattered information with spatio-tempel traits, the methods of quantification and the huge data amount. This paper constructed an agro-environmental information service system based on the spatial database, computer network and geographic information system (GIS) technology. This system was applied in Jianshui County, Yunnan to implement the system functions including the collection, storage, analysis, visual output and intelligent evaluation. The system with these functions applied technical support for Jianshui county to improve the abilities both in local agricultural products and environmental protection. And it provided a precedent for other Counties in Yunnan to construct agricultural environmental information system. Keywords: WebGIS, Agricultural environment, Information service system, Spatial database.

1 Introduction Both of the qualities and the quantities of agricultural products are the most important aspects for farmers, agricultural technicians and managements. In modern agricultural processes, how to improve the products’ qualities is much more increasingly come into people’s attention than to improve the quantities. And the qualities of the agricultural products include many strict standards such as pollution-free food standards and green food standards etc. In order to meet these standards, the basic step is to monitor and protect agricultural ecology environment because there is impossible to gain any high quality agricultural products from heavy polluted air, soil and water. Any environment protection measure would be blind if there is no monitor to gain plenty of quantification environment information. Only though the environment monitoring to acquire appropriate environment information data could understand the reasons why the pollutions created and the regularities that the pollutions changed. Then these reasons and regularities are significant for agricultural D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 417–427, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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technicians and managements to formulate practical environment protection plans. Thus, contemporary computer technologies were be used frequently to obtain temporal and spatial ago-environmental information in different scales. But since agricultural environment information is scattered and indirect, it is difficult to use the obtained information data fully to promote environment protecting level [1]. And all of these problems are particularly realistic in Yunnan Province, which is located in the southwest of China. The land in Yunnan is varied from mountain on Yungui Plateau at the altitude of 6740 meters to valley at the altitude of 76 meters. The prominent disparity of altitude arouses multiple land forms and complex climates. This unique geographical environment imposed diversification on Yunnan agricultural structure, and increased the difficulties in environment monitoring for agricultural workers, technicians and managements. This paper aimed at obtained environment monitoring data from 2005 to 2009 in Jianshui County, Yunnan designed and implemented a new agro-environmental information service system based on WebGIS. Firstly, the relative agro-environmental information data were aggregated and classified such as atmosphere information, soil information, heavy metal information in soil, irrigation water information. Secondly, the agro-environmental information service system was designed based on the technologies including computer, spatial database, network, and geographical information system (GIS). Compared with the used information service system this new system implemented inquiry, modification, addition and deletion etc. operations on mass environmental information data, and applied the local farmers directly, visually and comprehensively agro-environmental information service. The new system integrated agro-environmental information data and corresponding evaluation model to implement intelligent evaluations on the environmental pollution levels including air, water, soil and soil fertility.

2 System Design 2.1 System Development Methodology First, attribute database was built based on collected data such as environmental quality standards, atmosphere data, fertility data of soil, heavy metal data of soil, irrigation water data and so on according to the investigation in Jianshui. Second, spatial database was built according to the administrative map of Jianshui and some spatial data such as land form data, monitoring spot data, pollution elements data in soil and so on. And profile the corresponding digital map of these spatial data at the same time. Third, a multi-index evaluation model was developed based on the above attribute database and spatial database to analyze the contamination degree of the air, water, soil and the soil fertility level. The evaluation model was integrated into WebGIS Components and could be used by consumers. The technique flow diagram of the system development was illustrated in Fig.1.

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Design and Implementation of Crop Potential Model System Based on GIS and Componentware Technology Hao Zhang1, Li Ding1, Guang Zheng1, Xin Xu1, Lei Xi1,*, and Xinming Ma1,2 1

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Abstract. Based on SuperMap IS.NET and the empirical models about crop potential output, the paper firstly designed the model system of crop potential output by using componentware method based on distributed computing architecture under network environment. Secondly, the paper implemented crop potential model components by using componentware technology. Finally, with the abstract mechanism of interface, the paper integrated crop potential output models and loosely coupled model components with SuperMap GIS. The results show that the model system as a component container about crop potential output model integrated empirical and mechanism models and provided a dynamic management for crop potential output models and dynamic methods call, which solved the issues of integration and expansion, and the system has the characteristics of wide applicability and good independence, which provides ADM and technical support for the construction of major grain-producing areas, crop production management and potential mining. Keywords: Componentware, Crop potential output, GIS, UML.

1 Introduction Currently, digital model on crop production system is the foundation and the core of the digital agriculture, and is also the bridge linking the planting digitization, intelligentization and precision[1-4]. The significance of crop potential output model lies in the quantitative analysis and evaluation for the factors’ role to the whole crop producing stage, and explains the factors’ impact to crop potential output in detail. Crop potential model has advantages of strong explanatory power, wide application and easy to quantify and be controlled. With the development of crop potential output evaluation model, componentware and GIS, GIS-driven software development methods and componentware technology have been widely used in various types of GIS application system. It is effective to reduce the coupling GIS with model system and improve the maintainability and independence by using componentware technology[5-6]. In this case, the paper adopted the *

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2 Data Source and Research Method 2.1 Data Source Research data includes meteorological data, soil data, socio-economic data and crop production data. Meteorological data includes daily average temperature, daily maximum temperature, daily minimum temperature, rainfall and sunshine hours, provided by the weather bureau of Henan Province. Soil information includes soil texture, soil type and soil nutrients, provided by the county soil station or compiled through Henan TuRang Dili[7]. Socio-economic data includes producing condition, economic condition and producing level. Crop production data includes crop varieties, planting region, annual crop area, yield per hectare, annual total output and multiple crop index, collected from the statistical yearbook of Henan Province. 2.2 Research Method Crop Potential Output Evaluation Process. First, based on the process and the method of crop potential output evaluation[8-9], the paper collected and collated attribute data, such as Meteorology, soil and social production, and spatial data at 30 counties in Henan Province, to integrate space and attributes database. Second, the paper built the model components at all levels based on crop potential output model about light, temperature, water and soil and realized the model system of crop potential output. Finally, the paper quantitatively calculated crop potential output through mechanism model. Crop Potential Output Mechanism Models. The frequent methods of crop potential output included mechanism model and empirical model[10-12] at present. The latter was complicated and had the disadvantage of more inputted parameters leading to be difficult to spread, but the former was simple and easy to popularize. So, the paper used mechanism model of light, temperature, water, soil and social-economic factors, designed crop potential output model components, and constructed a crop production potential model system. Crop potential output model included computing and analysis models of crop potential output. Computing model included natural and social resource calculation. Computing model of natural resource included solar radiation model, photosynthetic potential model, temperature potential model, climate potential model and soil potential model. Computing model of social resource was used to quantify social factors’ contribution, such as producing condition, economic condition and producing level. The daily and total solar radiations were calculated during crop growth according to reference [13]. The potential output of photosynthesis, temperature, climate and soil was calculated according to reference [14-18]. Similarly, Analysis model of crop potential output included natural and social resource analysis, and the analysis approaches included spatial analysis and time analysis.

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crop potential output interface. Five classes at all levels of the potential output, potential coefficient and the total amount were derived from the corresponding subinterface. Taking into account the relationship among models and the integration of different models at all levels, interface technology was used to design coupled models loosely in crop potential output model system. Fig.2. shows the model component interface of crop potential output. For example, photosynthetic potential output class was associated with solar radiation interface, and solar radiation class was integrated into the photosynthetic potential class to obtain solar radiation. Solar radiation class realized the interface, regardless of which type of solar radiation class for calculating the total solar radiation, as well as temperature potential class, climate potential class, soil potential class and social potential class. Using interface abstraction mechanism could greatly improve the scalability of crop potential output model system. Design and Integration of Crop Potential Model Subcomponent. Crop potential model subcomponents included photosynthetic potential component, temperature potential component, climate potential component, soil potential and social potential component. Taking into account the characteristics of multi-crop and multi-model, interface technology was used to effectively integrate all levels of models for improving model system’s scalability and maintainability. Fig.3. shows the integrated potential model components.

4 System Implementation and Application 4.1 System Implementation The container component of crop potential model system provided the potential model interface for different crop production management and dynamic function calls, imported all kinds of crop potential models, and retained the further capacity for expansion interfaces to integrate other agriculture information system. Taking wheat and maize production in Henan Province as example, the meteorological data, soil data and crop cultivation and harvest data of all cities in Henan Province were inputted into the model system, the potential yield of wheat and maize was quantitatively estimated through the calculating model subsystem, and the potential distribution of wheat and maize at all cities was qualitatively analyzed through the evaluation model subsystem, which provided the decision-making and technical support for building the core area of crop in Henan Province. 4.2 System Application The system has been applied to crop production management in Henan Province. The system is running well, and effectively estimates and predicts crop potential output. Fig.4. shows the interface of crop potential calculation. Fig.5. shows the interface of crop potential analysis.

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5 Conclusion Crop potential output model system was built by using componentware technology based on GIS, and crop potential was calculated and quantitatively analyzed. The results show that the system has the characteristics of wide applicability and good independence, which provides ADM and technical support for construction of major grain-producing areas, crop production management and potential mining. The model system could be extended to other crop potential calculation and also combined with other software system, such as soil productivity evaluation system, agriculture fertilization expert system and crop production early warning system.

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It is necessary to strengthen the function of crop potential model management, improve the component management and enrich the model types of crop potential practically to increase productivity in the model system, such as crop growth simulation models, nutrient dynamics and balanced fertilization models and crop output benefit models. Acknowledgments. This work is supported by "Eleventh Five-Year" national scientific and technological support and major project plan: "High-yield Crop Science and Technology Engineering" (Contract Number: 2006BAD02A07-4), specific industry research sponsored by ministry of agriculture (Contract Number: 20083028) and ”863” plan(Contract Number: 2006AA10Z271). Sincerely thanks are also due to the National Engineering Research Center of Wheat for providing the data for the study.

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Design and Realization of a VRGIS-Based Digital Agricultural Region Management System* Xiaojun Liu, Yuou Zhang, Weixing Cao, and Yan Zhu** Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Information Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China Tel.: 025-84396565, Fax: 025-84396672 [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract. In order to realize the digitalization and visualization of information management in agricultural-region, a VRGIS-based digital agricultural region management system (VDARMS) was developed with SuperMap 2008 as the platform of spatial information management, VRMap 3.0 as the driver of scene, and integrating with the existing knowledge model for crop management. This system realized the functions as file management, spatial handling, information query, data analysis, cultural management plan design, virtual simulation, and system maintenance, etc. Case studies of the system were carried out in Heheng village of Jiangyan city and Qinglong village of Nanjing city, Jiangsu province, China, the application results indicated that VDARMS accorded with the development of modern agricultural spatial information management, realized standard, digital management and visual display of agricultural information, and ∗ greatly promoted the development of digital agriculture technology. Keywords: VRGIS, agro-region, knowledge model for crop management, information management, virtual simulation.

1 Introduction Along with the development of information and computer technologies, digital agriculture has been an effective method for many countries to promote the skills of agricultural production and improve the capacity of agricultural competition (Liu, 2005; Song et al., 2007; Zhou, 2009). Agricultural information management system is one of the core technologies in the technological system of digital agriculture. Up to now, correlative researches were reported at home and abroad, for example, Shane et al. (2001) in Kansas State University developed a field-level geographic information system based on object-oriented programming concept. Ma et al. (2007) established a spatial information management system of digital agriculture by using ComGIS *

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technology. Liu et al. (2006) designed and realized a WebGIS-based system for agricultural spatial information management and aided decision-making with Brower/Server mode as distributing network structure and WebGIS as spatial information management platform. These systems were mostly developed based on GIS, had the functions as information query, spatial analysis and aided decision- making. However, geometrical and topological information in the third dimension (vertical direction) were disappeared for using 2D showing mode in expressing spatial information, so the realistic world cannot be exhibited perfectly. Virtual reality geographic information system (VRGIS) is one of the pop research domains in geographic information system (GIS) and virtual reality (VR). As the integrating combination of GIS and VR, VRGIS has the functions as spatial information management of GIS and virtual visualization of VR, user can observe, immerge and communicate in the virtual environment (Deng et al., 2002). Recently, several correlative researches based on VRGIS were reported in the domains of urban layout, forest resource management and tour resources management, moreover, a series of virtual simulation systems were developed (Jiang et al., 2008; Zou et al., 2006; Liu et al, 2006; Wu et al, 2008). Although these systems realized the functions as 3D wandering, data management and information query, but couldn’t realize the spatial information analysis and decision support. Therefore, the object of this paper is to develop a VRGIS-based digital agricultual region management system by integrating the technologies of VRGIS, crop management knowledge model, database and decision support system (Cao, 2008). The system aims to realize the functions such as digitalization management for agro-region information, aided decision-making for crop cultivation and visualization simulation display, furthermore improve the efficiency and effect of information management and display in agro-region.

2 Design of System 2.1 Design of System Structure Based on the theory of system engineering, software technology, research target and technology characteristic, the system was composed of three parts: user layer, operational logic layer and basal data layer (Fig. 1). 2.1.1 Basal Data Layer The Basal Data Layer Managed Elementary Data and 3D Model Data. Elementary data: included spatial and attributive data. The spatial data included the data as road, watershed, building and field in agro-region. The attributive data was composed of elementary attributive data and geographic attributive data. The first one consisted of agricultural resource data that driving model run and scene constructing parameters, such as meteorological data, soil data, variety parameter data and terrain creating parameters, etc; the second one was the data that described spatial characters, such as position, area, aspiration information of building, crop type, yield and variaty information, etc, these data were connected with spatial data by correlative code.

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3D model data: included digital elevation model (DEM), digital orthograph model (DOM) and digital model (DM). DEM was used to simulate the variable status of terrain by digital vector and grid formats (Huang et al., 2001). DOM was the digital image to express the 3D model’s textures (Hu, 2007), DM was the 3D model of ground object with complicated structure by 3D modeling software (such as 3DS Max), moreover it was the foundation of 3D virtual scene. 2.1.2 Operational Logic Layer The operational logic layer consisted of spatial information management module, plan design module for crop cultivation and virtual simulation module of agricultural-region, three modules were integrated based on data level and COM components. The first module could realize information query, data analysis, display of thematic map and maintenance by GIS platform. The second module could realize the decision support for agricultural production management based on existing crop management knowledge model, result data were transferred to GIS platform and 3D virtual platform to fulfill the display of thematic map and virtual scene. The third module could realize the display and alternation of 3D virtual scene, alternation between 2D digital map and 3D scene on the 3D virtual platform. 2.1.3 User Layer Taking Windows as system interface, the system could communicate with user by menu, toolbar, list table, map and 3D virtual scene, etc. By clicking the mouse or keyboard, user could operate the functions such as file management, spatial handling, information query, data analysis, crop cultural plan design, virtual simulation and system maintenance, etc.

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2.2 Design of System Function In order to realize the digitalization and visualization of information management in agricultural region, and supply the convenient alternation, the functions of file management, spatial handling, information query, data analysis, cultural plan design, virtual simulation and system maintenance were designed in this system (Fig. 2).

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database, and the elementary attributive data were stored into the attributive database via Microsoft Access 2007. 3.1.2 DEM Disposal DEM were the models used to simulate change status of terrain wave by digital vector and grid formats. These data were disposed by grid simplified algorithm to control the level of detail (LOD) process, and form the different detail level of terrain data. 3.1.3 DOM Disposal DOM was composed of disposed digital navigation photo and satellite RS image, these data could be used to optimize the texture of 3D models and control background status of terrain by geometrical rectification and inlay. 3.1.4 DM Making DM were the 3D models with complicated structural characteristic, which were made by 3DS Max software, such as the models of building, road and field, etc. In order to make VDARMS have a better performance, models must be developed based on little triangle faces by polygon modeling function of 3DS Max software, additionally, vivid texture picture would be stuck onto the surface of models. 3.2 Construction of 3D Virtual Scene The main work in the virtual simulation module of agricultural region was concentrated on setting up 3D virtual scene, so the constructing procedure and fidelity of 3D virtual scene would directly affect the quality of system. Recently, there are many good 3D virtual simulation platforms at home and abroad, by comparing the platforms and considering the actual condition of agricultural region, VRMap 3.0 was selected as the scene driver of VRGIS which supplied key technologies as management of mass data, display of advanced simulation, communication among different platforms and database driver. In the procedure of constructing scene, the program could automatically create 3D virtual scene by using correlative parameters inputted by user in the attributive database (Table.1), and showed high reusability and flexibility. Table 1. Parameters of scene creation Parameter type Terrain creating parameters Object importing parameters

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3.3 Alternation between Digital Map and Virtual Scene Each object from agricultural region was distributed a code to be distinguished each other and make for managing and querying spatial information. These were stored into spatial and attributive databases via conjunct code, and used to realize the alternation between digital map and virtual scene. This function was designed under the query menu of virtual simulation module. The acting procedure was: (1) stored the code into the scene as the name of correlative 3D model; (2) acquired the name of 3D model by VRMap 3.0 SDK engine; (3) queried the information of correlative spatial object by SuperMap SDX+ engine, realized the function of real-time alternation. 3.4 Change of Crop Landscape The landscapes of crops show different forms at different growth stages and varieties. Considering the characters of crops in different growth stages, changing large-scale crop landscapes was realized by selecting the main growth stages to carry out the replacement for 3D models of fields. The acting procedure was: (1) first of all, added all the fields into the VRMapSelectionSet. (2) secondly, got the name, coordinate, rotation, zoom-adaption and remotion of one field object by IVRMapPMObjectDisp. (3) finally, replaced the 3D model of field with the obtained information by CreatePMObjectFrom3DS, and then transferred to another field until all the fields were changed. 3.5 System Development The VRGIS-based digital agricultural region management system was developed on the computer with Intel(R) Core (TM) 2 Duo CPU, 1G memory and Windows XP Professional operating system(Version: Chinese). By applying Visual Basic 6.0 to design the interface of system, SuperMap Deskpro 2008 to design spatial database, Microsoft Access 2007 to disign attributive database. The 3D models were set up on the platform of 3DS Max 2009 software, the modules of spatial information management and crop management plan design were developed by using the components of SuperMap Objects 2008 and existing crop management knowledge model, while the 3D virtual scene and the module of virtual simulation of agricultural region were established by VRMap 3.0 software.

4 System Application Case studies of the system were carried out in Heheng village of Jiangyan city and Qinglong village of Nanjing city, Jiangsu province, China. The executing procedure was: Firstly, the spatial and attributive databases were constructed with Google Earth images, digital photos and data resources via vectorization and tabulation. Secondly, the 3D models of building, road and field in the agro-region were made by 3D modeling software. Finally, all the data were imported into system. The application results indicated that the structure framework and design idea of VDARMS accorded with the

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resources. The system had the functions as file management, spatial handling, information query, data analysis, prescription design for crop cultural management, virtual simulation and system maintenance, etc. Case studies of the system were carried out in Heheng village of Jiangyan city and Qinglong village of Nanjing city, Jiangsu province, the application result indicated that it accorded with the development of modern agricultural spatial information management, realized the standardization, digital management and visual display of agricultural information. The results provided a digital and visual platform for the construction and management of new countryside, exceedingly promoted the development of digital agriculture. Comparing with the existing agricultural spatial information management systems and virtual simulation systems(Shane et al., 2001; Ma, 2007; Liu et al., 2006; Jiang et al., 2008; Zou et al., 2006; Liu et al., 2006; Wu et al., 2008), the system has the following characters: (1) the display of spatial information is not only in the nonfigurative 2D space, but also in the dynamic and communicated 3D space, user can apperceive the real world by a intuitionistic manner; (2) by setting the parameters for the construction of scene and using the function of plug, the system can automatically and quickly construct the 3D virtual scene of agro-region. The weakness of costing much time in establishing 3D virtual scene and fixed applied object was overcame, and exceedingly promoted the reusability of virtual simulation technology. (3) the alternation of digital map and virtual scene eliminated the wildering sense in wandering 3D virtual scene, effectively showed the integrity of 2D digital map and the visualization of 3D virtual scene, and perfectly annotated the spatial information of agro-region. However, on account of the integration between GIS and VR based on data level, additional studies should be undertaken on the same data structure to realize the absolute integration; Further, considering the limitations of 3D GIS and computer technologies, the system should be updated by VRMap 4.0 or higher version of 3DGIS software to improve the efficiency of system running.

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Design and Simulation Analysis of Transplanter’s Planting Mechanism Fa Liu, Jianping Hu, Yingsa Huang, Xiuping Shao, and Wenqin Ding Key Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Equipment and Technology, Ministry of Education&Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China [email protected]

Abstract. A new-style transplanter’s planting mechanism was designed, which was composed of Planetary Gear, Planetary Carrier, Connecting rod, Groove cam and Planting arm. Built the kinematics model and determined the main parameters which influenced the Plant-arm’s locus by analyzing of the Kinematic model. Created the 3D Model in PRO/E and imported it into the Kinematics simulation software ADAMS, analyzing Groove-cam’s offset angle, Connecting-rod’s length and its impact on the Plant-arm’s kinematics locus. The effect laws of the structural parameters on the Plant-arm’s locus were obtained through analyzing the Plant-arm’s locus, which got by changing the groove cam’s horizontal offset angle ranging from 0° to 20°, the sum of Connecting-rod’s length ranging from 130mm to 150mm, and the subtract of Connecting-rod’s length ranging from 15mm to 25mm. The analysis results are of theoretical significance to the dimension synthesis and optimization design. Keywords: Transplanter, planting mechanism, ADAMS, Groove cam, Plant-arm’s kinematics locus.

1 Introduction Raise seedling and transplant can increase crop production in every unit area, and make upgrowth ahead of time, which can withstand gale, harmful rain, low temperature, and other nature disaster. Besides, it also saving seed. Seeds are usually grown under the film by farmer in many place, because it is useful to improve the soil temperature, keep moisture and restrain weeds. The nacelle-type and dibble-type transplanting mechanism are good mechanism for transplanting film, but they are not convenient and safe to directly drop seedling and they are easy to leave out seedling when the machine are operated and their work efficient are low when seedling are transplanted over the larger areas. Now a simple and credible type of transplanting mechanism was designed, which was easy and convient to be operated and adjusted. the efficiency of the machine was much more greatly improved. There was less seedling to leave out in work progress. The three dimension model of the transplanting mechanism was establish in pro/e software. The relationship between the planting arm’s locus and structural parameters was analyzed by the mechanical simulation software ADAMS in this paper. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 456–463, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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2 Kinematic Analysis of the Planting Mechanism 2.1 Structure and Working Principle of Planting Mechanism A transplanter’s planting mechanism was shown in Figure 1, which was composed of planetary gear, planetary carrier, link, groove cam and planting arm. The numbers of sun-wheel’s teeth was twice times that of the planetary gear’s teeth. The cam groove was divided into two parts and a angle-off between the two part. Planting arm, fixed on the connecting rod 2, moved with the connecting rod 2.

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Design and Simulation for Bionic Mechanical Arm in Jujube Transplanter* Yonghua Sun, Wei Wang**, Wangyuan Zong, and Hong Zhang Zibo in Shandong, Lecturer, Mechatronics Tel.: 0997-4683859 13031270332 [email protected]

Abstract. In this paper an automatic bionic mechanical arm of jujube transplanter has been designed and simulated with Pro/E and ADAMS software. The device can achieve the work of clamping—sending—setting the sapling and support the sapling to guarantee it perpendicularity in setting process. Design the structure of manipulator utilizing the simulation of hand working. There is 5-DOF at the manipulator to achieve simulating. Constitute dynamics mathematical model and estimated inseminate error of bionic manipulator. The three dimensional model of the manipulator was build up and simulated by using Pro/E software. Then up build the virtual prototype and kinetics simulation in ADAMS software and chalk up the dynamics parameter curve of clamping force etc. This manipulator will establish theory and practice foundation to the cyber-identify and cyber-supervise of sapling translating.

1 Introduction Mechanical arm have been designed for jujube transplanter aiming at the outside diameter and characteristic of tree form, to meet new requirement in south Xinjiang, featured with new planting mode that called lower stem and high-density. It is designed by simulating the supporting mechanism of human hand. This new design can improve planting stability and planting efficiency, under the help of the support from mechanical arm. The mechanism is the core component of the transplanter that directly affects the quality of seedlings planted.

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Fig. 1. Structure Diagram of Bionic Mechanical arm 1. Chain-Element 2.First Roller 3.Spring 4.Link 5.Upper Splint 6.Sapling 7.Lower Splint 8.Second Roller

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In working, chain-element (1) link to the driving chain and moving at a certain speed. The first roller (2) and second roller (8) run in each orbit. The manipulator is supported by the second roller (8). The first roller (2) able to automatic control the opening and closing of upper splint (6) is located at the obit with variable size and fitted to spring (3). Figure 1 is location of spring at the state of compression and now the manipulator will keep current state for a minute until completed sapling planted. Then the upper splint (6) will detach the sapling with opening angle θ by spring force as the change in size of guide and wait for the next operation. Figure 2 shows the working principle. The opening angle θ of hand is controlled by a long slot between guide and strut. Parallel mobile is main movement of link (4) which attach to the relevant parts of lower splint by hinge pin.

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3 Motion Mathematical Models There will be a little offset error to sapling`s right location in actual planting process because of linker in structure according to the working principle of the bionic mechanical arm. Hypothesis the diameter of sapling be handed is d, and the distance that link moving down is h, now, the dip of upper splint is θ. Ideally, the field angle is θ between the two hand splint if there is no movement of lower splint. Ideally, the field angle between two splints is β=θ-α If considering the dip α of lower splint as the structure factor. That is the error angle is β=θ-α.

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attribute as materials of various parts as stainless unity and so on. Set the connect sets between the parts and load the property of spring such elastic stiffness coefficient as K=800 and the damping coefficient as C=0.5. Then to exert the force F in the connecting rod end and set the running time as 0.03s and the step as 50, and then operate it to perform the dynamic simulation for the prototype. Afterward, we will obtain a motion state diagram likes Figure 6. 4.2 Kinematics and Dynamic Simulation Analysis

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Design for Real-Time Monitoring System of High Oxygen Modified Atmosphere Box of Vegetable and Fruit for Preservation Zhanli Liu1, Congcong Yan1, Xiangyou Wang1,* and Xiangbo Han2 1

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Abstract. According to the disadvantages of traditional box for preservation, including low oxygen and high carbon, a new control system of high oxygen is designed. This paper presents the design and implementation method in this system. The system combines traditional PID control with fuzzy control which can adjust parameters of the whole system automatically. The box can control the dynamic content of oxygen and carbon dioxide, and monitor nitrogen flow, temperature and humidity real-timely so that preservation time can be prolonged. It also can collect and keep the data of the dynamic content of oxygen and carbon dioxide which suits for fruit and vegetable for preservation. The former environment can be reappeared when need. The system works steadily and has strong functions. Keywords: High oxygen; Modified atmosphere box; Real time monitor; Design.

1 Introduction Day, the British scholar for the first time made clearly the application of high-oxygen (>70% O2) in modified atmosphere packaging of fresh-cut vegetables and fruits in 1996. Domestic and foreign research of high-oxygen (21%-100% O2) on the effect of postharvest gradually increased, and the treatments of high oxygen are expected to play an important role in fruit and vegetable storage[1]. Research has shown that high-oxygen treatment of fruits and vegetables can reduce the respiration and ethylene production, slow their browning, and improve the preservation effects[2-4]. The application of high-oxygen or even pure oxygen modified atmosphere technology on fruit and vegetable preservation has aroused close attention. So it is necessary to make a study of a reliable and stable high oxygen modified atmosphere control system for further development of high-oxygen fresh-keeping equipment. However, the impact mechanism of the high oxygen on the postharvest physiology and quality is not indepth, so it severely limits the development of high oxygen storage[5]. Thus, most of *

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2 Experimental Device of High Oxygen Modified Atmosphere Box Central processing section formed by a microprocessor is the heart of the whole control system, which completes the functions of data acquisition and processing, keyboard and display processing and system control. Temperature and humidity transmitter is mainly to measure gas concentration of the tested environment, and output the standard current signal corresponding to the surrounding gas concentration after the signal processed by the internal data processing. Gas flow meter part is mainly to measure the volume of the input nitrogen. It can select 4-20mA output, level output, or pulse output module according to needs. Analog multiplexer switch is mainly to turn the switch channel between separate ways analog and A/D converter, allowing one way analog signal input to the A/D converter in a specific period of time, and it can achieve the purpose of time-conversion to reduce the number of A/D converter and reduce costs. Current transfer voltage circuit is used to change the transmitter and flow meter standard output current signal into the corresponding voltage signal and conduct the follow-up signal processing. The role of sample retainer is used to maintain analog signal voltage of the A/D converter input constant during the conversion period, then ensure a higher conversion precision, and greatly increase the collection frequency of data collection. Some data memory stores the measured data immediately and preserves the measured environmental data for long-term. And data can be transferred out to external memory by a data interface, facilitating accurate analysis. Optical isolation part completes the isolation and amplification from weak signal to strong signal. The conversion of manual control and auto-control can be set by Panel. In the case of automatic failure or manual intervention (for example, using the manual control can quickly reach steady state before reaching the set high oxygen concentration), some manual control part can control all of the conditioning systems of the atmosphere storage environment. Program memory is used to store system procedures. Solenoid valve is used to control nitrogen access.

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Design of Agent-Based Agricultural Product Quality Control System Yeping Zhu, Shijuan Li, Shengping Liu, and E. Yue Laboratory of Digital Agricultural Early-warning Technology of Ministry of Agriculture of China, Institute of Agricultural Information, CAAS, 100081 Beijing, China {zhuyp,lishijuan.spliu,eyue}@mail.caas.net.cn

Abstract. Aiming at the problems existed in agricultural product quality control, management and traceability such as the considerable influence of human factors, weak ability of handling emergencies and lacking of support of intelligent key technologies, this study explores the application of agent theory, method and technique to solve the problems of process control, traceability, intelligent information watching and information technology application to emergency reaction conditioned on the general characteristics from production to circulation. In this study agent application and development method will be put forward. By means of investigating its communication and cooperative mechanism, we design the agent-based universal system framework for quality control of agricultural product. According to production and processing characteristics of different agricultural products, corresponding controlling unit and condition are increased to adapt to the special aim. Keywords: Agent, Agricultural product, Quality control.

1 Introduction As the important problem which concerns the masses most, food safety affects people’s health and life, involves the economic healthy development and social stabilization. How to control and manage food safety effectively has been becoming a research focus in recent years. The watching and effective management to product flow of farm produce can not only settle the problems of quality control and information delivery existed in every link such as production, processing, transportation, storage and sales, but also protect native agricultural product market and food safety. Europe began quality monitor and control in stockbreeding long ago. After the study and evolvement year by year, now relative perfect system has been come into being [1-3]. Since 21st century china gradually strengthened the study on food safety control method and system. A series of relative standards and guides have been established. Zheng Fengtian and Zhang Yongjian et al proposed that china must set up food safety system [4, 5]. Ye Yongmao considered the compellent food safety standard system should be constituted by means of reforming food safety management and operational mechanism and enhancing food safety legislation [6]. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 476–486, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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The author ever studied bee production quality traceability and developed software system [7, 8 9]. In the process of agricultural product quality control and traceability, man-made factors play an important role. Being lack of intelligent key technologies, although some technologies such as sensor, radio frequency identification and image recognition had been adopted in information collecting [10-15], database management, query and analysis still are the main method in agricultural product quality control. So there are no enough technologies involved in quality control to reply emergency. The difficulties existed in information collection, tracking and control for the small agricultural product, which need to be blended such as foodstuff and bee production, demand the corresponding information technologies as support to settle the key issues and reduce the effect of man-made factors. In this paper a method to control agricultural product quality with the characteristics of perceptivity, intelligence and cooperation will be studied. It provides technology support and universal resolution for control and traceability of such agricultural products as grain, bee product, vegetable and fruit etc., which are small, distinctly characteristic of dispersive production and need to be combined processed.

2 Status and Analysis of the Study The concept of agent was promoted in the end of 1970s, and the study of its methods and implementations has been developed in an active period. As one research domain of the distributed artificial intelligence, agent theory and technology have aroused a great deal of attention because multi-agent system (MAS) plays an important role in modern computer science and its application. In a multi-agent system any agent needs to communicate and cooperate with the other agents. Its behavior and decision vary with the other agents and conversation rules. The universal language-behavior theory formal language is used to make the agents in communication understand their respective inner state and purpose [16-25]. The application of MAS technology in agriculture is less than that in other fields. Liu Huimin at Capital Normal University studied multiple collaborative approaches based on the analysis of MAS technologies and theories, promoted an implementation plan for the MAS coordination mechanism based on Web Services technology to provide effective method and implementation technology [26]. Through the analysis on agricultural expert system and its characteristics, Yang Yan put forward the design project of web-based agricultural expert system. Xue Ling at Peking University and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences applied agent to the study on modern agricultural economic management and decision-making system, provided the structure and components of Agriculture Economy Intelligent Decision Support System (AEIDSS), analyzed the implementation method of classifier-based agent, and discussed the work principle of dynamic analysis, evaluation, forecasting and optimization under multi-agent communication and cooperative environment. The author also designed the Agent-based Cooperative Analysis and Decision Support System for Regional Agricultural Economic Information [27-30].

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With the issue of “Food Safety Law” in 2009, china governments and departments all levels increased the construction of agricultural standard system and the control power of agricultural product market, and a multitude of production bases for high quality agricultural products have come into service [31-37]. China, as a large country for production area and yield, not only is a production country for agricultural products, but also is a consumption country. So how to make the best of existing agricultural information network and comparative advanced technologies to provide information service of agricultural products quality, safety, standard and trademark etc. in order to boost the information construction and control method study of agricultural products quality safety is important and impendent. Building agricultural products traceability system is an inevitable trend for world agriculture, and traceability system has been becoming an important development direction. No study directly concerns the agent application on agricultural products quality safety and control except only a few reports about key technology and quality inspection method. Dmytro Tykhonov et al described a kind of multi-agent imitation model for trust tracking game. Trust tracking game simulated the game player, was a research measure to collect the human behavior data in the food supply chain with the characteristics of asymmetry food quality and safety information [38]. Dr Eleni Mangina and Ioannis Giavasis provided a multi-agent system to supervise gellan gum production, which included online data collection, forecasting the future benefit by capturing historical data automaticly [39]. Moises Resende-Filho mentioned a sort of commission surrogacy model to encourage food safety tracking system. His study indicated the more reliable tracking system make the dealer attach more importance to food safety; the inapposite tracking system couldn’t inspirit the dealer to use the safe material in food industry [40]. Zhu Li and Wang Haiyan used the theory and principle of HACCP to discuss how to build food safety quality control system in food supply chain of Chain Supermarket [41]. Deng Ning et al tried to apply the core concept of agent on supply train risk control system, and proposed the framework mode to effective manage supply chain risk [42]; From the angle of quality guarantee Xiao Yuan and Liang Gongqian analyzed the conflicts among enterprises in supply chain, put forward the quality supervision mechanism. Multi-agent technology was applied to modeling for quality supervision system, and the system structure was provided [43]. Li Feng studied how to collect economically the real-time information of transporting goods and send to the back-end server (logistics information system). Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) was used by mobile front end subsystem to retrieve information of goods in automatic fashion, and the corresponding agents fulfilled the data processing and delivery. Back-end server also was built on mobile agent. This can not only ensure the customization of information collection, but also increase the system opening [44]. The increased demand on innovating food safety and quality control method offers a chance for agent technology with characteristics of sociality, autonomy, intelligence and mobility. MAS technology provides a method and measure for collaboration integration to guarantee quality, offers a feasible scheme for running quality supervision system successfully. Appling agent technology to study agricultural product quality safety and control method has far-reaching meaning on food safety and citizen health, at the same time will provide a new research method.

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3 Design of Agent-Based Agricultural Product Quality Control System First of all, let’s analyze the traditional flow of production, processing, sales, quality tracking and traceability for agricultural product (Fig. 1). In quality traceability database is the kernel technology. Figure 2 shows agent-based agricultural product quality control flow which core is the agent cooperation and intelligent control. The information delivery, task assignment and cooperation in whole system are on the control of information management agent and task management agent.

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3.1 System Architecture The multi-agent system to control agricultural product quality through the whole course includes several agents such as information management agent, task management agent, tracing and traceability agent, market analysis and forecast agent, logistics management agent, instant event monitoring agent, emergency treatment agent and data mining agent and so on. System architecture is based on multi-agent management platform. Agentoriented thinking mode and cooperative evolvement theory replace the traditional structural design and object oriented design methods. System is composed of five parts i. e. user, communication and task sales, task resolving, information management and basic information (Fig. 3). Each part includes many agents which do their own work.

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the information collection, analysis and time arrangement in agricultural production. For example, when emergency takes place, task management agent will call emergency treatment agent which gives reaction and information prompt and makes assistant decision on emergency. Task resolving agent. Task resolving agent consists of many agents. When user or other agent sends out task or cooperation requirement, task resolving agent searches and call the relevant agents, then submits task request. If the agent receiving task is idle, it will accept the task and begin to address the task. The results will be returned to task resolving agent by communication and task management agents. These collaboration agents include: Information analysis agent. Which makes out statistical analysis and creates various graphs and report forms. Agricultural product tracing agent. It is responsible for the information collection, filtration, treatment, storage, earmark and bar code creation of the whole supply chain from production to processing to table. Agricultural product traceability agent. Which searches for each tache of the whole supply chain aiming at the different demands of consumer, enterprise and government, for instance whether each tache accords with respective standards or not. Market analysis and forecast agent. It analyses market information and comes into being market forecast with various methods. If there is a great discrepancy between the two forecast results, one result or several results will be provided to predict market dynamic by means of consultation, competition and ratiocination. Logistics management agent. It administers the logistics information and dispatch. Instant event monitoring agent. On the one hand, it deals with the information from interface; on the other hand, it supervises the abnormity with each sector on supply chain, analyzes whether an emergency occurs or not. If system thinks an abnormal event or emergency has taken place, the early-warning will be sent out and communication starts. Emergency treatment agen. It classifies the emergency for example quality safety, quantity safety, abnormal fluctuation of market and so on. Then the corresponding agent will be called to analyze and search the response plan. If there is not response plan, system gives an alarm to ask for human intervention. Otherwise the response plan will be called to deal with the emergency. At the same time, system will give the assistant decision. Data mining agent. It makes data mining and learning on the basis of collecting a large of information. It promotes the intelligence of agent, needs human intervention and certification. 3.3 Communication Language and Standard between Agents In order to guarantee the veracious cooperation between agents we must standardize their communication manner. Communication of multi-agent has been built on the Agent Communication Language (ACL), and follows ACL standard of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents.

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In cooperation process matching conditions include communication action, message parameter and parameter expression and so on. Every agent has special matching format and combination. Only the message instruction suiting the format completely can be recognized by target agent and implemented. 3.4 Cooperation among Multi-agent System Cooperation embodies the sociality of agent, and is a main predominance of multiagent system. In agent-based agricultural product quality control system, we take certain unqualified product as example. After receiving task requirement, interface agent calls communication agent to deliver the task to task management agent. Task resolving agent analyses the massage from task management agent, then sends out news to data management agent in order. Data management agent looks up the data concerned and sends out to emergency treatment agent. Emergency treatment agent runs the relative models to create a suit of assistant decision scheme, and then calls the other agents to consult. Finally interface agent will receive the plan and data used, which maybe is an assistant decision scheme or a warn-earning message. Each agent can be activated at any moment. Many agents can realize consultation and competition. 3.5 System Development and Application We chose Java language to develop system on Windows operation platform in order to guarantee the universality and transferability of multi-agent system. Agents with various function were constructed by means of exploiting principal part and interating softwares. For the function modules such as collection, monitoring and analysis of bee product information, we made best use of former programme to encapsulate, transfer and build the corresponding function agent. The reuse and share of the research materials on our hand can save workload effectively. The functions such as decision-making and emergency response need the cooperation, consultation, communication and competition among agents to reach the practical results. Communication of multi-agent had been built on the TCP/IP protocol. The most popular agent communication language--KQML (Knowledge Query Manipulation Language) had been used to exchange messages among agents so the cooperation and collaboration decision-making was realized.

4 Conclusion This study on agent-based agricultural product quality control method will provide elementary way and information technology tool for building quality control, supervision and traceability system as well as information platform, will reduce the amount of development work greatly, will increase the ability to answer for the quality safety problems, can offer a tool of information supervision, control and coopration for whole supply chain, will help to realize the digitilization and intelligent management for agricultural products. Acknowledgments. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60972154) and the National Science & Technology Pillar Program (Grant No. 2009BADA9B02).

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Design of ETL Process on Spatio-temporal Data and Study of Quality Control* Buyu Wang1, Changyou Li1, Xueliang Fu1, Meian Li1, Dongqing Wang1, Huibin Du1, and Yajuan Xing2 2

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Abstract. In order to use the space-time data mining technology to conduct operation research in WuLiangSuHai Eutrophication, the water quality sensor parameters of heterogeneous data which reflect the characteristics should set up a spatial data warehouse through ETL process, and water quality sensors for quality control of spatial and temporal data plays a vital role in building an effective analytical environment. The paper designs the ETL process from the data and water quality sensors artificial duty and other heterogeneous data sources spatial data, and proposes data quality control strategy based on the incremental frequency rule engine and the space the inverse distance weighting on the Combination. Experiments show that the incremental frequency rule engine could more effectively find the missing sensor data and abnormal, Space inverse distance weighting method can find the missing data and outliers in the errors within the allowed interpolation processing, ETL procedure is effective and feasible. Keywords: Sensor data, Frequency increment rule engine, Inverse distance weighted method.

1 Introduction At present, the integrated analysis and process of water quality services have been investigated using the spatial data mining techniques [1], [2], [3]. In particular, some work has studied multi-eutrophication services of water environments based on the heterogeneous data sources [4]. The pre-requisite for the investigation of eutrophication related services is to establish a data warehouse including the water-quality data characterized by a variety of eutrophication attributes. The design of the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) procedure plays a key role to establish such an effective analysis environment. ETL process design, many scholars from the conceptual model, conceptual model to logical model of the transformation of both done a lot of research work [5], [6]. *

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Abnormal data, some scholars have proposed the use of rules engine to detect, and made the related theoretical research work, but did not give a specific implementation strategy [7]. Deal with the problem of missing data values, some academics have suggested the use of inverse interpolation method, the weight-related research and in the field of meteorology has been successfully applied [8]. In this paper, three aspects of the work done. Designed with the characteristics of lake water quality data ETL process. A comprehensive consideration of water quality parameters of water eutrophication factor weighting inverse method interpolation. Designed based on the Drools rule engine kernel dynamic incremental realized abnormal test data volume.

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In order to study the issues related to the water eutrophication, data source, on which the analytic environment is established, should consist of two kinds of data: the data of water quality eutrophication and the data representing the key elements of eutrophication. In this paper, the data source mainly includes the following two parts: the water-environment monitoring data and the data manually collected in the Wuliangsuhai Lake. The water-environment monitoring data is collected by the on-line waterquality sensors in the Wuliangsuhai wireless sensor network, and the time granularity of the data sampling is once per 15 minutes, which is conducted in each monitoring station in the Wuliangsuhai Lake. The manual collected data comes from the researchers who collect the related data on the spot in summer, and the associated time granularity is once per day, the sampling space varies each day. Obviously, the data is inconsistent with the manually collected data in terms of time granularity and space granularity. 2.2

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The ETL process provides data for data warehouse. Therefore, the quality of the ETL process relates to the success or failure of the establishment of data warehouse. The ETL processes adopt different strategies and implementation methods for dealing with different data sources. This paper proposed the design of the ETL process which can unify the heterogeneous data sources varying with time granularity and space granularity. The proposed ETL process is as follows. Firstly, the cleaning of the heterogeneous data is performed with the strategy of data quality controlling introduced next. Secondly, the data uniformity of space granularity is achieved as follows: extract the monitoring data of the sensors located in the sampling stations which are near to the man-made sampling points in terms of latitude and longitude. Following this, the data uniformity of time granularity is achieved as follows: superimposing and fitting of 96 sensor groups of data of 96 sampling times over 24 hours. Thereby, the transformation of data is completed. Finally, the consistent data is loaded in the data warehouse.

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The issues related to the data quality of water-quality sensors mainly are manifested in the two following aspects. One aspect is that WSN is affected by the quality of the communication signal in the data acquisition and transmission. As a result, the sampling data may be missing in some time intervals. The other is that the electrical signal noise and man-made factors may lead to the sampling data abnormal during the process of sensor monitoring. This paper investigates how to deal with the data missing and the data abnormal, which is essential for the control on data quality in the ETL process. 3.2

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For k points of sensor data in some sampling period employed in the procedure of the data uniformity, the missing and abnormal data may result not only from the parameters of water-quality sensors, but also from the signal strength which may varies with the sampling frequency over one hour. This paper took into account the signal strength and the factors of time period and sampling frequency, and proposed the IWQPW (Inverse Water Quality Parameter Weighting) interpolation method to cope with the issues mentioned above. Definition 1. Assume that the starting instant is t0, and a group of data is manually collected data over 24 hour period. Accordingly, 96 groups of water-quality sensor data have also been collected, which are indexed by a sequence of integer numbers. Each index corresponds to the related sampling instant. Definition 2. Assume that the data record is a group of manually collected data, the 96 corresponding sequential groups of data is RD = {d1 , d 2 , …, d 96 } . For any d i (1 ≤ i ≤ 96) and d j (1 ≤ j ≤ 96 and i ≠ j ) in RD, if their indices are x and y respec-

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This paper investigated the method for the detection of outliers in the sensor parameter data based on the rule engine technology in order to cope with the above two issues, and proposed a new engine technology of dynamic incremental rules. 3.3.2 The Architecture of the Dynamic Incremental Rule Engine The designed dynamic incremental rule engine is Drools rules engine as the rules of the nuclear, through plug-in components, to achieve the continuous dynamic growth rule and incremental updates. The architecture of the dynamic incremental rule engine includes: Rule generation interface. Graphical user interface (GUI) is exploited to edit the user rules and the plan of the rule conversion. In GUI, the rule is represented using custom XML files. Rule-related job dispatcher. The dispatcher is used to dynamically adjust the priority of the rules and the sequence of the rule conversion.

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Rule converter. The rule converter takes the responsibility of the conversion of the custom XML rules to the rules supported by Drools. That is, the converter transfers the object-oriented rules to the Drools-supported rules. Rule-version controller. With the rule-version controller, the user rules are managed in a centralized manner. The rules with old versions are also regulated. The system maintains a record list regarding the rule usage of each individual user with specific role(s). The personalized interface thus is provided to different users. Runtime database. The database is used for data persistent storage, which is shared by the other components. Code generator. The generator produces the code according to the rules, and returns the data anomalies stamp. There are two kinds of return data. One is the PL/SQL code; the other is Java code. The generated code, as input, sends to the module of data layer. Data layer modules. Data layer modules receive the code, and determine which operation should be performed according to the abnormal stamp. If it is necessary, the interpolation module is called. Then, the persistence operation is performed. 3.3.3 A Sample of the Rule File This dynamic incremental rule engine designed to use a custom XML file to represent the objects of the rules, call the Java API code embedded in the rules file, rules through five steps to achieve the dynamic and incremental update capability, in detail Process described below. • Import the classes used in the code, nested the classes in tag; • Describe data set schema. The original data set is divided into the current data set and the other data set, differentiated by the attribute tag, i.e., type. The sample fragment is as follows for the definition of the data set.

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The process of data cleaning is the most critical part of quality control of waterquality-sensor data, which includes two parts: the interpolation processing of the missing data in water quality monitoring and the detection processing of the outlier. First of all, the missing values of sensor water-quality data are interpolated using IWQPW method. Then, the outlier detection is run using the dynamic incremental rule engine with the input of the processed data set and the rules edited by water experts. Following this, the space interpolation is performed on the outliers using IWQPW method again. Finally, the achieve data set get into the follow-up processing.

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statistical outlier. Precision ratio is defined as the ratio of the correct number of detected outliers over the number of detected outliers. The test set A consists of the four sampling spaces indexed by 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Each sampling space is constructed based on the test sampling space of the real data records of PH, ORP and oxygen content collected in April in the Wuliangsuhai Lake. Then, the test set B is obtained through elimination of the uncompleted record and outliers in the four sampling spaces in the set A under the guidance of related experts. Experiment 1. Under the guidance of related experts, the statistical number of outliers is achieved manually for each sampling space in the test set A. The number of outliers is also obtained from the DIRE rule engine with the input of each sampling space. Thereby, recall ratio and precision ratio can be calculated. Experimental results are shown in Table 1. Table 1. Detection of outliers in sensor data with the rule engine No.

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The experiment results show to some extent that our proposed method is useful in practice and effective. The results also show that our methods strongly rely on the rules.

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Design of Fuzzy Drip Irrigation Control System Based on ZigBee Wireless Sensor Network Xinjian Xiang College of Automation & Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang, P.R. China [email protected]

Abstract. To improve agricultural water resources’ utilization, crop’s automatic, locate, time and appropriate drip irrigation is a good choice. In this paper, an automatic control drip irrigation system based on ZigBee wireless sensor network and fuzzy control would be introduced. System uses CC2430 for wireless sensor network node design, collecting soil moisture, temperature and light intensity information and sending the drip irrigation instructions by the wireless network. System put this three soil factors input fuzzy controller, created fuzzy control rule base and finished crop irrigation time fuzzy control. This paper mainly describes system’s hardware structure, software design and working process. The system with the characteristics of economical, reliable communications and high accuracy control, could improve agricultural drip irrigation water using efficiency and the automation level. Keywords: Drip irrigation, ZigBee wireless sensor network, Fuzzy controller, Drip irrigation automation.

1 Introduction Agricultural water low use efficiency, shortage and waste are big problem of currently development of irrigated agriculture. Drought is the major environmental stress factors for crop growth, which is more than all other factors’ sum up[1]. Drip irrigation is a system that directly supply filtered water, fertilizer or other chemical agents to soil with slow and regular drip through the trunk, branch and capillary on the emitter under the low-pressure. It’s utilization of water could up to 95%, Drip irrigation is an important technology in irrigated agriculture and the ideal solution to resolve the effects of drought. Over the years, most of our drip irrigation system controlled by manually experience without real-time data collection and analyze, drip of arbitrary is large. Thereby, study of automatic drip irrigation system has a great significance. Implementation of irrigation automation requires as following [2-3]: 1) the accurate collection of crop water requirement; 2) the remote information transmission technology for water demand information and the control; 3) drip irrigation control decision-making. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 495–501, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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Many researches carried out at home and abroad. However, there is still clearly insufficient with 2) and 3) for application:1) Currently most of drip irrigation control systems work with serial bus or field bus technology, the wiring inconvenience and high cost, longer time-consuming make it is hard to promote in practice [4]. 2) Automatic drip irrigation as a complicated system, Irrigation decision-making affected by soil, crops and the environment’s multi-sensor information. There is still a lack of appropriate control strategies [5]. In recent years, with the development of wireless information transfer technology, ZigBee wireless network with its lowpower, low cost, low rate, close, short latency, high-security features get attention in agricultural production. Scholars begin to study the drip irrigation system with wireless technology. However, in these drip irrigation systems, ZigBee wireless sensor network is mainly used for collecting soil, crop or environmental information, providing drip irrigation decision-making. Information collection and automatic irrigation control integrated system based on ZigBee technology is rarely. Fuzzy control for the many complex and difficult to establish accurate mathematical model system control provides a solution, it’s study about drip irrigation only consider the soil moisture information as fuzzy inputs, neglected crops and environmental information, which cause the decision-making is not accurate enough. To this end, a design of fuzzy drip irrigation control system based on ZigBee wireless sensor network is provided. The system consists of low-power wireless sensor network node with self-composed ZigBee network formation, avoiding the inconvenience of wiring and poor flexibility shortcoming, achieving continuous online monitoring of soil moisture. System uses soil moisture, temperature and light intensity information for fuzzy decision-making, and completes the fuzzy control of drip irrigation automation. It would improve irrigation water use efficiency, ease the growing tension of water resources conflicts and provide a good growing environment for the crop.

2 System Hardware Design 2.1 System Composition System based on ZigBee wireless network, is made up of drip irrigation system, ZigBee wireless network nodes and monitoring center. Due to real-time monitoring information of soil moisture, temperature, light intensity and the crop water use law, implement of automatic drip irrigation with fuzzy control strategy, as shown in Figure 1. 2.2 Drip Irrigation System Design For drip irrigation requirements, throttle, filters, and pressure gauge should be installed at the water source. System use PVC Ф32 mm for main pipe, PE Ф20 mm for branch, with pressure compensation emitter, one plant with a drip emitter embedded in the branch. Front-end of branch connected solenoid valve with 24 V DC, flow rate of 2.3L / h, and pressure gauge. Branch spacing can not be too small for preventing interference between lines caused by water infiltration, and initial set line spacing to 1 m. Soil moisture sensor buried under the roots of the plant near the surface, light intensity sensors and temperature sensors fixed to the side of the pole

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on the plant. Sensor signals input CC2430 to constitute the measurement of soil moisture ZigBee wireless sensor network node. Each solenoid valve coupled to the CC2430 ZigBee module circuit, composed of drip irrigation control wireless sensor network node. 2.3 ZigBee Wireless Network Node Design ZigBee wireless sensor network using star network topology. Node is divided into three categories: sensor node, controller node and routing node. In the design, three kinds of nodes all use TI’s CC2430 as a common core module, and different expansion modules, as shown in Figure 2. CC2430 with strong function and rich on-chip resource, only need few external components can be achieved with the signal transceiver functions, which made the hardware design for three kinds of nodes are very simple, reliable and practical. 2.3.1 Design of Zigbee Wireless Sensor Network Node for Soil Moisture Measurement Sensor nodes connected with the soil moisture sensors is used to read and transfer sensor information. Soil moisture sensor nodes’ spatial arrangement will be optimized according to crop type, soil type, terrain conditions and reliable signal transmission requirements. It includes Soil moisture sensors STHO01, digital temperature sensor DS1802B and photosensitive resistance P9003. STHO01 soil moisture sensor measurement accuracy of ± 3%, range 0 to 100%, output signal 4 ~ 20mA, operating voltage 12V DC, stabilization time after power 2 s, can meet the requirements of realtime monitoring. The output signal change to 0 ~ 5 V voltage through the highprecision resistor, then converted into digital signal by the CC2430 AD module, soil moisture can be determined from different voltage amplitude. STHO01 should be buried in the ground, the location and drip irrigation start time is close to the data accuracy and time. General crop root depth of 10 ~ 20 cm, Drip Irrigation humid time of 5 min-30 min, thus burying depth of the sensor is set to 15CM, open time is set to 20min after drip irrigation. Signal reception and transmission by the antenna. Each sensor node is powered by solar cells, and the battery voltage is monitored at any time, once the voltage is too low, the node will send a low voltage alarm signal, then the node run into sleep mode until it is fully charged. 2.3.2 Design of ZigBee Wireless Network Drip Control Node and Routing Node Control node is connected with the irrigation control panel to control the open/close head of drip irrigation and valve through Timer based on fuzzy control strategy. In addition, the control node has the interrupt response capability to deal with control commands from the computer. As the irrigation control panel and electric control valves use electricity supply, so does the control node. Between the core module and the irrigation control panel using optocouplers in order to avoid strong electrical interference. System’s routing nodes create a multi-hop network in self-formation. Sensor nodes distributed in the monitoring area, sent the collected data to the wireless routing node nearby, then routing node selects the best route according to the routing algorithm to establish the appropriate routing list. Routing node connect with base station for address allocation, management, monitoring, signal transmission and

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reception between the sensor node and control node. The routing node sends a data read command to sensor node every 20 min, and upload the receive data through the serial port to the base station computer.

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3 System Software Design 3.1 Fuzzy Control Strategy Design The crop’s water requirement is related to soil moisture index, meteorological conditions (radiation, temperature, etc.), crop type and growth stage. Therefore, the system chooses soil moisture, temperature and light intensity as the fuzzy controller input. Fuzzy controller input for soil moisture (WH), temperature (WT) and

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light intensity (WL), the output for the irrigation time (WT), as shown in Figure 3. In order to ensure appropriate accuracy, four variables are defined five linguistic variables: very light (VL), light (L), middle (M), heavy (H), very heavy (VH). In the choice of membership function (MF), triangular MF is simple, computationally efficient, especially for applications that require real-time implementation of the occasion, so the system using triangular MF fuzzy: translate the variable’s exact value into fuzzy linguistic variable value in the appropriate domain, that determine input/output range and the domain of fuzzy linguistic variables. Fuzzy Reasoning: knowledge-based reasoning by a certain mechanism, get the fuzzy output value from the fuzzy input. Inference rule is summarize by experience get "IF-THEN" statements express, such as experience, when the soil moisture below the lower limit, indicated that the soil is extremely dry at this time regardless of the level of other inputs, crops need a lot of irrigation, written in fuzzy reasoning Rules that "ifWT is VL thenWT is VH". In practice, different situations also need to adjust the rules, and gradually create the best irrigation scheme. Ambiguity: According to the results of fuzzy reasoning by multiplying the scale factor, get the exact output amount needed to control the system. In this system, the center of mass defuzzification method is used to obtain the irrigation control valve opening time. Soil potential

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3.2 Node Software Design In the irrigation control system, monitoring data and control commands are transmit in the wireless sensor nodes, wireless control node, the wireless routing nodes and the monitoring center. Sensor nodes and control nodes turn on the power, initialization, and get in sleep after the establishment of links. When the routing node receives an interrupt request, activate the sensor nodes and control nodes, send or receive packets, continue into hibernation after processing, waiting for a request to activate again. In the same channel, only two nodes can communicate through the competition to get the channel. Each node periodically in sleep and monitor mode, taking the initiative to seize the channel when the channel is idle, and retreat for some time based on backoff algorithm to re-monitor channel state when the channel is busy. In the programming design, system mainly uses interrupt method to complete send and receive message.

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3.3 PC Monitoring Software Design Monitoring software plays a vital role in this system, written using VC #, through the monitoring software to achieve the ZigBee network monitoring, information extraction, fuzzy control calculation and control output functions. First, the software shows the topology of wireless networks, after confirmation system begin to receive node sensor signal in scheduled, the signal can be displayed in two ways: numerical display and curve display, collection steps can be set to 20min, then finish fuzzy control calculation according to fuzzy control method, output control node signal and control the electromagnetic valve’s switching time. The sensor signals and output control signals can be timed automatically saved and exported to the interface for observation and comparison.

4 Application and Validation System’s initial test is in the vineyard’s drip irrigation. The vineyard uses fixed ground drip irrigation system, each block with a main pipe and some branch comb pipes, electric control valves installed at the end of the main channel, each electronic control valve connect with a wireless sensor network controller node which control the block’s drip time. In the experiment, four blocks are selected, around the block controller node distance 70 ~ 120 m, while the sensor nodes are distributed in an approximate square area around the block (each block containing 1 to 3 sensor nodes), while the base station (router nodes) farthest away from the node 250 m. Experiments show that nodes with distance of 200m, the single communication error rate is less than 2%. System using repeated comprehensive judgments to improve the reliability of communication. In addition, the electronic valve control accuracy, and system run in good condition overall.

5 Conclusions In this paper, an automatic control drip irrigation system based on ZigBee wireless sensor network and fuzzy control had been proposed. System uses high-precision soil moisture, temperature and light sensors with low-cost, low power ZigBee wireless communication technology to monitor soil moisture on line, fuzzy control implementation of soil moisture and crop water use rules which are difficult to establish accurate mathematical model for drip irrigation automation. The design avoids the inconvenience of wiring, and improves the flexibility and maneuverability of watersaving drip irrigation control system. Not only can effectively solve the agricultural irrigation water use, ease the growing tension of water resources conflicts, but also provide a better growing environment for the crop, give full play to the role of the existing water-saving devices, optimal scheduling, improve efficiency, so drip irrigation is more scientific, convenient, enhance the management level. The system also supports remote setting of parameters and control for a variety of crops, can increase crop yield, reduce the cost of agricultural drip irrigation, improve the drip irrigation quality, has great value in applications.

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Acknowledgement This material is based upon work funded by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. Y108268.

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Design of Greenhouse Environmental Parameters Prediction System Haokun Zhang and Heru Xue College of computer & information Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, P.R. China [email protected]

Abstract. This paper designs an environmental parameters prediction system based on web for greenhouse. The system is designed using the MVC framework, and includes monitoring module and prediction module. The system can obtain the main environmental parameters from sensors, such as light, temperature, humidity, CO2 and so on. Based on mass and energy balance principle, the prediction module of the system can predict the parameters of the greenhouse environment each day. The system displays the measured real-time data and the predicted data for the users to manage greenhouse easily. This paper provides a specific method to realize an intelligent management system for greenhouse. Keywords: Greenhouse environmental prediction, Prediction model, MVC framework, Intelligent management system.

1 Introduction Solar greenhouse is a unique greenhouse structure in China, with low cost, low running cost, good insulation and high efficiency advantages. But the current level of greenhouse environmental control is lower, and the greenhouse environmental control is still a manual control-oriented. It is difficult to adjust to the best environment for crop growth. This paper designs an environmental parameters prediction system realizing a function of remote monitoring and early warning. The system provides reliable and accurate greenhouse environmental parameters for users to manage the greenhouse. With the development of the Internet and WWW technology, Web has become the interactive interface for most software users. WWW is considered the most successful information system. In particular the development of dynamic Web technologies having come a long way, WWW is becoming the mainstream of various types of information system development platform. Dynamic Web system structure is a three-tier client/server model. In the three-tier system architecture, Web browser occupies client layer, database server and other external service account the service layer, and occupy the middle layer is the Web server and server extensions. Three-tier structure makes D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 502–507, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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the dynamic Web browser users can access the existing database resources, and enhances the system interactivity. This paper designs a web-based system, which implements the B/S design pattern and three-tier structure to shield underlying network and provides the users a friendly and consistent interface.

2 System Designing The environmental parameters prediction system is based on B/S design pattern of the dynamic three-tier architecture of Web systems[1]. The users request to the server by submitting a form in a browser. The server calls the data in the database after receiving the requests, and the results are returned to the users. Using software engineering, the system is divided into different functional modules, according to the setting of the types of the greenhouse environmental parameters and the processes and characteristics of greenhouse environmental parameters monitoring and prediction. The system implements functions of monitoring and predicting the greenhouse environmental parameters and provides an interactive platform for users. The structure of system is shown as fig. 1.

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The system includes the following functions: Function of login and registration. Before using this system, users need to register and login. After users submit the registration information successfully, the system returns the registration information to the users. This function is designed to manage the system for users. Function of environment monitoring. This function implements transmission and display of the environmental parameters and stores the parameters in the database. The system sends the parameter data to the users’ browsers using the web server. The function can show the environmental parameter data in a table and also can draw a line chart of the data to users. Function of environment prediction. The implement of this function is base on solar greenhouse environment model, which uses mass and energy balance equations to

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describe the climate in the greenhouse. The function can predict the greenhouse environmental parameters everyday. Input parameters need by this function submitted, the prediction is calculated based on environmental prediction model, and the prediction results is displayed in a table or a line chart to users.

3 System Implementation In the development of the system, JSP technology and DAO technology are used. JSP technology is based on Java, and can create dynamic Web pages supporting crossplatform and cross-server. Following the object-oriented design, JSP programming is easy and independent of web browsers[2-3]. In developing web information systems, JSP technology is widely used. 3.1 MVC Architecture MVC is a "Model-View-Controller" in the abbreviation. MVC applications always have three parts, which are Model, View and Controller. Event leads to changes coursed by Controller in Model or View, or changes both at the same time. If Controller changes the data or properties of Models, all Views automatically update. Similarly, if Controller changes the View, the View gets data from the Model to refresh itself. 3.2 Access to Database This system is designed to use Access desktop database. All operations on access to database are packaged in a separated Java class named by DB.java, in which all member functions are defined as static functions, such as Connection getConn(), getStatement(Connection conn), getResultSet(Statementstmt, String sql) and so on. The following statement can implement the access to database: Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"); conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc: driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=path"); The “path” in the above sentence is the variable of the physical path of the data file. 3.3 Implementation of Functions 3.3.1 Environment Monitoring This function deals with the data get from sensors, and displays the data in web pages. Implementation of the function depends on the deployment of sensors. After sensors working successfully, greenhouse environmental parameters stored in the Access database are obtained by this module. The system uses AUTO-22 greenhouse environmental data collector. According to the need of the greenhouse environmental model, twenty-one sensors are used. The attributes of the table created in the database is shown as table 1.

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The system uses a JavaBean named Condition to set and get data from the database. DAO of the system obtains data from the table in database and stores it in a list consisted of objects of Condition. JSP pages read the list to display the data in browsers. Query statement of access: sql=select top "+pageSize+" * from temp_humi_0 where id not in (select top "+(size)+" id from temp_humi_0 order by id asc. The “pageSize” in above sentence is a variable to define the number of data item in a page. The “size” variable presents “(pageNo–1)*pageSize”. To display the data in a line chart, this system needs JFreeChart, which is an open chart drawing library on Java platform[4]. JFreeChart is programmed completely by Java Language, and designed for the use of applications, applets, servlets and JSP. The system needs the JFreeChart package to draw line chart. Add jfreechart-1.0.6.jar, gnujaxp.jar and jcommon-1.0.10.jar in lib directory. Procedure of generating chart in this system: 1). Create a dataset to include the data displayed in a line chart, which is stored in database. 2). Create an object of JFreeChart to present the chart to be shown. 3). Output the chart. 3.3.2 Environmental Prediction Calculating of each prediction module is developed by Matlab. With the component of Matlab Builder for Java, package the function of prediction module calculated in

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Matlab into a Java component. This Java component can be called in JSP web system. Taking the solar prediction module an example, package the file named shortwaveradiation.m into a file named shortwaveradiation.jar. Including this new file in the project, the system can call this prediction function. Matlab Builder for Java (known as Java Builder) is an extension of Matlab Compiler. Java Builder packages Matlab functions into one or more Java classes. Matlab functions are packaged into Java classes, and can be called by Java applications. Implementation of environmental prediction function is based on greenhouse environmental model[5]. The model integrates solar model, air temperature model, air humidity model and CO2 Concentration model to build an overall prediction model for greenhouse environment. The model needs local weather forecast information. With the forecast information, indoor solar illuminance, air temperature, air humidity, CO2 concentration, soil temperature and soil moisture can be realized. By inputting values of cloud and local time, solar illuminance prediction function

I o which has reached surface of the greenhouse, and the total flux of solar radiation I 冠层 which has reached the crop canopy. calculates the total flux of solar radiation

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Greenhouse temperature prediction model can predict indoor air temperature, crop canopy temperature, surface of soil temperature and so on. Greenhouse solar illuminence prediction model can predict crop canopy flux of solar radiation. They are the known conditions for prediction of greenhouse CO2 dynamic prediction model. Mean values in hours per day of crop canopy flux of solar radiation, crop canopy temperature, surface of soil temperature, air temperature, concentration of CO2, and inner surface temperature of translucent membrane obtained by sensors, and measured values each hour per day of outdoor temperature, outdoor humidity are the known conditions for greenhouse air humidity prediction model. The function of prediction is shown as fig. 2.

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Fig. 2. Greenhouse environmental prediction model calculating flow chart

4 Conclusion The system designed by this paper can provide high-precision data of changes of greenhouse environmental parameters to greenhouse managers. The system realizes remote monitoring and prediction via Web and provides an actual method to realize precision agriculture. The system is an application system for greenhouse environmental parameters prediction. Acknowledgements. This study has been funded by Inner Mongolia Natural Science Foundation Projects (Contract Number: 20080404).

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Design of Limb for Parallel Mechanism Based on Screw Theory* Zhigang Lai1, Lixin Li2, and Ping’ an Liu2 2

1 Jiangxi Technical College of Manufacturing, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330095, China School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering at East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, China [email protected]

Abstract. Based on the reciprocal relationship of twist and wrench in screw theory, the mathematical model for limb of parallel manipulator is established in this paper. According to the motion modes of mobile platform (translation or rotation), we concluded the geometric conditions which the prismatic joint or revolute joint must meet with by analyzing the constraint screw on the platform, which provides the background for development of parallel mechanism. Keywords: parallel mechanism; crew theory: limb; geometric condition.

1 Introduction In recent year, since parallel mechanism can offer higher stiffness and larger load capability than those of serial mechanism, it has become a hot research topic in international robotics area. However, it is very difficult to design because of the complexity of kinematics and dynamics, the diversity of limb and the coupling of architecture.[1-3] It is the most important task to meet with the DOF of the required motion for designing the parallel mechanism. In fact, DOF is the outward feature. The key is the design of constraint to implement the DOF of the required motion. The DOF of motion is objective in the limb. However, the constraint is designed in the limb by designer. And there are strict requirements to the geometric conditions which the prismatic joint or revolute joint must meet with in the limb.[4-5] Based on the reciprocal relationship, in this paper, we concluded the geometric conditions which the prismatic joint or revolute joint must meet with in the limb by analyzing the constraint screw on the platform. According to the limb, we can design the parallel mechanism which is satisfied the required movement. It is a common method to the basic design of the parallel mechanism.

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screw can be divided into twist and wrench. An arbitrary motion screw in space can include six motions at most, three translations along the X, Y, Z axes and three rotations around the X, Y, Z axes[6-8]. Twist should provide constraint for movement in space. It can be defined a r = ( sr ; rr × sr ) . In the formula, sr stands for a unit vector along axis of twist and

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which make sure the direction of twist. Second, we establish the moving direction of the prismatic joint and the axis direction of twist must be vertical each other. Last, the axis direction of the last two revolute joints must intersect at o point which is the point of action of sr.

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When the structural conditions of limb meet with the above requirements, the limb should provide two twists. According to the requirements above, we should put up the limb-RRPR shown as Fig. 2.

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Design of Non-Full Irrigation Management Information System of Hebei Province Based on GIS Junliang He, Yanxia Zheng, and Shuyuan Zhang Department of Resource & Environment, Shijiazhuang University, Shijiazhuang 050035, China [email protected]

Abstract. Combined the data of irrigation experiments in Hebei Province, The paper built an integrated system which integrates data input and output, management, analysis and decision. The system is based on GIS (Geographic Information System), DSS (Decision Support System) and crop water production formula. With the establishment of the system, the modern management level of non-full irrigation will be advanced, and the allocation of soil and water resources will be optimized. By analyzing the system demand, the framework of non-full irrigation management information system was proposed, and the main function of the system was designed in the article. Keywords: Geographic Information System, Non-full Irrigation, Hebei.

1 Introduction Water is the basic natural resources for social and economic development, and also the important strategic resources. With the low per capita water resources and uneven space-time distribution, the contradiction between supply and demand of water is still very prominent in our country. The annual amount of water shortage reaches 300-400 billion cubic meters in China which is one of the water shortage countries. Hebei is one of the serious water shortage provinces in China, the per capita water resources is oneeighth of the national average level. In this area, 90 percent of agricultural water is used for crop irrigation, but the actual utilization rate of water resources is only about 45 percent, lower than 50 percent which is the utilization rate of the most water shortage country. There exists a large water saving potential in Hebei Province behind the phenomenon of water shortage [1]. Therefore, the development of high efficiency and water saving agriculture is one of the main measures to alleviate water shortage, and to promote sustainable development of agriculture in this area. As an advanced mode of water saving irrigation, the non-full irrigation is studied from various aspects in recent years. According to the analysis of water consumption of wheat in North China Plain, Changming Liu etc reveal wheat water effect and water requirement [2]. Based on the irrigation experimental data in Linxi and Wangdu, Shaoyuan Feng etc use multiple regression analysis method to determine the sensitive index of the model [3]. Combined irrigation experimental data in Wangdu, Luhua Yang etc discuss the solution method for two dimensional dynamic programming D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 519–525, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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of the Jensen model [4]. According to the irrigation experimental data in Gaocheng, Wangdu and the central experiment stations, Zunlan Luo etc select Jensen, Minhas, Blank, Stewart and Singh models to analyze water production function of maize in Hebei Province [5]. At present, the information of non-full irrigation in this region is acquired and managed mainly by traditional manual work, the effective information management, maintenance, and sharing will be impossible to realize. To develop water saving agriculture, the key is to integrate irrigation experimental results and information technology, establish the decision support system of water saving irrigation, promote the modern management level of non-full Irrigation, and optimize the allocation of soil and water resources.

2 General Structure Design Facing the decision making managers and professionals, the non-full irrigation information has spatial and temporal distribution properties. The information involves topography, hydrogeology, river system, weather, vegetation, soil and other factors in the agricultural area. The GIS has efficient ability of spatial data management, and flexible ability of comprehensive analysis. DSS can provide the decision support environment of model construction, process simulation, and effectiveness evaluation for the management [6]. Therefore, In view of the professional model, GIS and DSS technology, considering practicality and scalability, the system architecture based on C/S mode is proposed. The system uses SQL Server which is a large relational database to manage the spatial data and non-spatial data, and adopts GIS software

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development platform MAPGIS 7. 0and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to develop. The basic framework of the system is shown in Figure 1.

3 Database Design The main function of database system is to manage, store related information, and provide the support for the establishment and auxiliary management of the non-full irrigation schedule design. The database design is the basis for development application system, including irrigation information database and geographic information database two categories. 3.1 Irrigation Comprehensive Information Database In this paper, according to the need of the non-full irrigation management, and combined the irrigation experimental data of agricultural experiment stations, the Table 1. The content of agricultural irrigation comprehensive information database

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comprehensive information database is established, which includes irrigation data, meteorological data and water data etc (Table 1). At the same time, in order to realize the connection of the comprehensive information database and irrigation geographic information database, the shared field parameters are also taken into account in the database design phase. 3.2 Geographic Information Database Geographical information database is the basis for the function realization of GIS. It mainly accomplishes graphic data management, retrieval and query, as well as the spatial analysis and evaluation of thematic data. Taking advantage of the vectorization function of Mapgis, the author obtained the administrative map of Hebei province (surface), the main water distribution (line), irrigation experiment stations distribution (points), weather station distribution (points) and so on. In order to connect with the database of irrigation comprehensive information, using the property management function of Mapgis, the author modified the geography information table on the digital map, and added the corresponding shared field parameters. In addition, the modify functions of geographical information database are not provided for ordinary users in order to prevent mistakes causing by modification in the geographical information database.

4 Model Base Design According to the model of application analysis which is called during decision analysis, model base system presents data demand and storage format requirement to the database system. The optimization of the irrigation schedule model is the core of decision support system. In order to achieve high yield targets, under the limited irrigation quota conditions, the optimal allocation of the irrigation quota in timing and quantity is realized. Using the crop-water model (MCRW) as constraints or objective function, and the crop water consumption as the variable, the relation between the yield and the water deficit in different growth stage and different degree is revealed in this system. With the linear programming method, the optimal solution is obtained through the linear processing of the objective function, the calculating processing is simplified, and the optimization of the non-full irrigation schedule design is realized. A series of professional models is established in this system, involving reference crop water requirements, crop water requirements, irrigation quota calculation and assessment of crop water deficit. Base on the analysis of the spatial and non spatial information, enlightened by the professional knowledge and experience, decisionmakers can evaluate and predict water supply and demand, and establish water saving irrigation strategies.

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data edit, data import and data export. The function of the system includes database management, documentation management, data manipulation and metadata maintenance and so on. Query and retrieval: Based on the function of the visual graphic display, with the aid of functions such as roaming, zooming and eagle-eye, the location, query and browsing for the spot, line, plane and other geographic features are realized. According to the combination of data item and any logical expression, users can query and retrieve the attribute data. Statistical analysis: The system may carry on the statistical calculation to the related data, including maximum value, minimum value, average value, histogram computation and so on. Special output: According to the need, users can choose the layer to output water supply and demand maps, agricultural weather information maps and other thematic maps, can also output all kinds of the irrigation resources parameters in the form of statistical charts and text statements, including known data and the result data. 5.2 Professional Analysis Functions Analysis of crop water requirement: Based on the Penman formula, the crop water requirements at any day can be calculated, and the daily crop water requirements and the monthly crop water requirements from 1991 to 2000 in the experimental Station of Hebei Province can be queried. Using the reference crop evaporation quantity to calculate the crop evaporation quantity, the crop water requirements can be calculated. Based on the experimental data of crop water requirements, the query of the different crop coefficient in different region or during whole growth period can be realized. According to the soil condition, the irrigation quota before planting and the irrigation quota in each growth phase can be calculated. Optimization of the irrigation schedule design: Using the existing analysis results of irrigation data, the crop - water model which suit for the different corps in different region of Hebei province, and the sensitive index in each growth phase can be queried. The irrigation quota, the crop water consumption corresponding the maximum yield treatment, the relative yield and the relative evaporation in each growth phase, the effective rainfall and other data can be set by users, also can be queried from the functional modules such as the basic information and analysis of crop water requirements. Through inputting the limited water supply (irrigation quota), the water allocation optimized strategy with different irrigation quota can be calculated, and the comparative analysis of the economic scale irrigation quota can be carried on, according to the relations between each kind of irrigation quota and optimal relative analog output. 5.3 System Maintenance and Help Functions System login: In order to ensure the security of the system, users must input the user’s name and the password to entry the system. System help: The functions of system help include system description and user guide and so on.

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6 Conclusion Combined GIS and professional models, with the development of the non-full irrigation management information system, the graph and the attribute data are queried reciprocally; the irrigation data and agricultural resource are managed scientifically. The partial interface of the system is shown in Figure 2. Based on this, according to the water resources condition in different region and the different crop water deficit condition, the optimal allocation strategy of the limited irrigation quota in the timing and quantity is proposed. Taking advantage of this system, decision- makers can grasp all kinds of information in crop area, realize the digital, systematic and scientific of the agricultural irrigation resource management, and advance the effective development and sustainable utilization of the agricultural water.

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The Monitoring System of Water Environment Based on Overlay Network Technology∗ Xueliang Fu, Changyou Li, Buyu Wang, Honghui Li, Hailei Ma, and Dongnan Zhu Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, 010018, P.R. China [email protected]

Abstract. At present, although methods of automatic, periodical manual data collection have been adopted in some areas, there are many problems existing in these methods. This paper proposes a new framework for online monitoring of water environment based on overlay network technology. Especially, we build the multi-level overlay network, which consists of the GPRS networks, mobile networks and internet networks. Following this, a multi-dimensional data cube for water environment is established using the ETL process with the input of complex heterogeneous data collected. Thereby, the framework of data center is established for on-line early warning of water environment and data analysis and processing. This framework has been put into use in Wuliangsuhai for the on-line real-time water monitoring tests. The results show that the overlapping network architecture is effective and on-line analysis and early warning of heterogeneous data is efficient. Keywords: WSN, Overlay network, ETL, Multidimensional data cube.

1 Introduction Currently, water-quality monitoring in Wuliangsuhai is mainly performed manually [1]. Researchers in related institutes reside in Wuliangsuhai, and gather water-quality data manually during the ice-absent period. The main method to gather data relies on portable instruments. It is difficult to meet the needs of comprehensive monitoring, analysis and early warning in Wuliangsuhai for water-quality. Therefore, the comprehensive development of research and eco-social benefit is seriously restricted [2]. There are mainly four issues in the above traditional method. Firstly, researchers had to be outside for long time, thus, they cannot conduct large-scale experimental analysis using tools and computing environment. Secondly, the continuity of data collection is poor, and a sample space is very limited. In the ice-absent period, one can only collect data once or twice per day (once at noon, or twice in the morning and evening respectively). One cannot collect data at night as well as in freeze-up period. ∗

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So, the number of the achieved water-quality data is no more than 200 records. Therefore, it is impossible of widely data mining and analysis owing to the significant shortage of data. Moreover, the quality of the collected data cannot be guaranteed. Thirdly, using the manual-collecting method, the quality of data is effected strongly by the professional proficiency of the researchers and the usage of the equipment. As a result, dirty data may appear and cannot be analyzed and rectified using other timesequential data. Finally, the collection area is very limited. Due to the broad water area of the Wuliangsuhai Lake, it is impossible for the residing researchers to collect data at the same time from multiple locations far away from each other. As a result, there is no way to analyze and compare data in terms of time scale and location. The current trends to resolve these issues is to use the framework of cloud services, with which data is online automatically assembled, real-time transmitted using overlay networks. Decision of knowledge is made in a data center. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are the task-oriented wireless networks which consist of a number of wireless sensor nodes [3]. WSN integrates multiple area technology, including sensor technology, embedded computing technology, modern networking, wireless communication technology, distributed information processing technology and others. In WSN, various micro sensors take responsibility of on-line monitoring target; the embedded computing resources take care of processing data obtained by sensors; the related information is send to the remote user data center using wireless communication networks. This technology can be broadly applied in the military defense, industrial and agricultural controls, urban management, biological medicine, environmental monitoring, disaster relief, antiterrorism and remote control in dangerous areas. It is attractive in both academy and industry [4]. This paper studied the design of monitoring system for environment of water based on the overlapping networks in order to deal with the issues about Wuliangsuhai water-quality monitoring.

2 Main Contributions 2.1 Architecture Our proposed system is mainly composed of overlapping network communication subsystem, the water-quality sensor acquisition subsystem, multi-dimension data analysis subsystem [5] and solar power subsystem. The issues are addressed using multi-layer overlay network technologies on inter communication among networks, such as 485 network, GPRS network, PSTN network and computer networks. In this system, the task-oriented data-collecting network is constructed using water quality sensors and data acquisition equipment based on wireless sensor network technology; the multi-dimensional data analysis center are established based on OWB and ETL technologies for early warning and comprehensive analysis of instantaneous data and historical data; solar power system is employed for 24-hour uninterrupted power supply all day long and thus provide guaranteed environments for the good performance of the entire system. System architecture is shown in Figure 1.

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2.2 Overlay Network Design A networking framework which enables multi-network integration must be explored in order to realize a distributed resource management platform. This platform can provide for the application layer reliable and efficient resource searching and localization service through monitoring link status, shielding network failures and changes. Also, this platform can provide for application service such as network routing optimization through node detection of network paths and performance. The real-time signal data on water quality parameters is achieved through the data acquisition subsystem. The collected signal data is first send to a GPRS-wireless hybrid communication system via a RS485 network, and then transfer to the data center with fixed IP address by the GPRS wireless network. In the data center, the signal data is translated, analyzed, processed and stored. The TCP multicast protocol, i.e., “center to multi-point”, is adopted for reliable and transparent data transmission. Multiple-layer hybrid overlay networks are constructed between each sensor node, which registers as an online communication node and the super node in the data center with a fixed IP. The super node manages the whole WSN. Each facility, which is eligible for the WSN, can log in, exit and abnormal exit through this subsystem. This subsystem is important for the establishment of a reliable network, which provides bidirectional data transmission channels and communication links for the transmission of signal data and control signaling. The layered hybrid network architecture is exploited in the whole network framework. The whole network is divided into four layers: the service layer, the core layer, the access layer and the link layer.

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2.3 Data Stream Processing The Data center architecture is shown in Figure 2. The data stream processing includes two steps: receiving data stream and sending data stream, which are described as follows: 1) Receiving data stream i. The on-line real-time data on water quality parameters is send to the data center in the sampling frequency using the data acquisition subsystem. The acquisition subsystem consists of water-quality-parameter sensors, filters and A / D converters. ii. After receiving the real-time data, the data center analyzes the data logically, eliminate the dirty data, and store the qualified data in the transient database. iii. Water-quality analysis-type database or data warehouse, which is suitable for analysis and statistics, is built from the data in transient database using the ETL tools combined with the functionalities of operations / scheduling of enterprise database. iv. Various analysis products needed by users can be generated using the database products for analysis (BI data warehouse reporting engine) together with the waterquality analysis-type database or data warehouse.

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the data center, the user can transmit the acquisition subsystem in order to set the sampling period and other parameters of the acquisition system. ii. With the help of the data center for sending the control information, an eligible user can turn on or off the power supply system, or remote manage the power supply system.

3 Experiment Setup and Discussion Firstly this paper deployed the PH-value and ORP and oxygen-content sensors in the Wuliangsuhai Lake. Then, the real-time, automatic data acquired with adjustable sampling frequency has been achieved using the proposed water-quality sensor acquisition subsystem, the overlay network transmission subsystem, and the data storage and processing subsystem. Thereby, the water-quality parameter data can be processed and analyzed in a very short time. The software in PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) exploits the means of center-to-multi-point communication in the water-quality-parameter signal acquisition subsystem in Wuliangsuhai; the Baud Rate is 9600; the survivable mechanism is achieved through the heart-rate packet; the communications signaling employs ASCII-code signaling. The connections between the PC software and the data center are established using TCP/IP protocol. The unity of the user programming interface is approached through encapsulating the Socket package in the system level and the integrated converged communications from the data link layer, the network layer and the application layer. The data center is built based on Oracle database, where the transaction concurrency mechanism and trigger mechanism are used, and the data OLTP is achieved through the job scheduling. Oracle DWB is used to build the data warehouse which provides analysis environments. All analysis products and user UI are implemented using the B/S framework; the system is built using the SSH enterprise multi-layer computing framework. After the deployment in practice and the simulations, it is found that the proposed overlay network framework is sensitive very much to the strength of the data signals. The instantaneous packet loss may suffer when the signals become weak, which results in dirty data. However, due to the relatively high sampling frequency, this can be ignored in the context of the research and the application on water environment monitoring only if the data is accurate in the time granularity of an hour.

4 Conclusion This paper proposed and implemented the Monitoring system of water environment based on overlay network technology in order to deal with the issues on the current water environment monitoring in the Wuliangsuhai Lake. Through the field deployment of our proposed system, simulation results verify that the effectiveness of our design. It solves a series of issues existing in the current monitoring method mentioned before. The future work is to investigate the issues related to data processing and data reliable transmission both in academy and in practice.

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Design of Rotary Root Stubble Digging Machine Based on Solidworks∗ Xinglong Liao1, Xu Ma1,2, and Yanjun Zuo1 1

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Abstract. In the paper, the necessity of root stubble harvesting and recycling was put forward from the perspective of biomass energy utilization. To accomplish mechanized harvesting on root stubble, a rotary digging machine was designed based on parametric modeling software Solidworks. Firstly, parts were built under entity modeling module, and then assembled to 4 main mechanisms in assembling environment. Secondly, mechanisms including frame, transmission mechanism, suspension mechanism and digging mechanism were assembled together to establish the whole prototype on which interference checking was done. Through manual change of the transmission chain’s installation position, the digging mechanism was able to shift between reverse and forward rotation according to different soil conditions. Finally, relevant 2-D engineering drawings were generated for manufacture. The paper provides methodological reference for the design of similar machines and preparation for further simulation and analysis of the designed models. Keywords: Root stubble, Rotary digging machine, Solidworks, Virtual design.

1 Introduction As one of the main food crops in China, corn’s significance is only next to rice and wheat. The perennial planting area is about 25 million hm2 and annual yield is up to 120 million tons[1]. As by-product of corn planting, the treatment of these root stubble is a tough task to peasants, especially in busy farming seasons. Moreover, there exist many deficiencies in traditional treating ways of root stubble. Leaving them alone will hinder subsequent seeding operation; burning them up will generate a lot of smoke harmful to the environment; burying through plowing will be inefficient; and mechanized shattering will consume large amounts of energy. Stalk and root stubble of corn is a kind of clean fuel with high heating value and low sulfur and is one of the most potential green renewable energies. As energy crisis and environmental pollution are more and more concerned in the world, the task to explore new energy and material as a replacement of petroleum is urgent. So it is necessary to harvest and recycle ∗

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root stubble for the sake of providing raw material for biomass transformation and utilization. In the study, Solidworks2009 was applied for the design of rotary root stubble digging machine. With this software, 3 dimensional entity models of each part can be designed and assembled together easily and interference between components can be checked conveniently. Therefore, before manufacture of physical prototype, sufficient assembly and test can be done on simulated models, promoting the standardization, normalization and serialization of the design work.

2 Characteristics of Solidworks Solidworks is the first 3 dimensional CAD software developed on windows operating system, and due to its powerful functions, characteristics of easy to learn and easy to use, it is widely applied in mechanical design. With parametric feature modeling technology, different entities can be created, meeting most requirements of engineering design; with single internal database, all data is related with each other, modifications on dimension in any module will automatically reflect in other modules; in 3 dimensional assembly module, transmission relationship between components can be dynamically simulated. Solidworks is especially suitable for product development, as it is able to shorten product design cycle, improve design quality and reduce cost. Soliworks has become one of the mainstream software in mechanical design and modeling[2].

3 Design Process of Rotary Root Stubble Digging Machine Using Solidworks 3.1 Scheme Design The machine consisted of 4 main parts including frame, transmission mechanism, suspension mechanism and digging mechanism. The machine was hitched to tractor with suspension mechanism. During operation, power of tractor was transmitted to input shaft of the machine through universal joint from the tractor’s PTO (power take off) shaft. Then via bevel gear pair and bevel-shaft, the power was transmitted to flank chain sprockets. Finally, flank chain sprocket drove the driven sprocket which was fixed on the digging mechanism, so the digging mechanism rotated with the driven sprocket synchronously. Motion of the digging mechanism was structured by two components. While advancing with tractor (pulled by tractor), it also rotated around the self blade shaft. During working process, root stubble was dug out of soil and tossed upward by the rotating blades, and then the root stubble hit the baffle board and fell behind the machine. After a few days of exposure under the sun, these root stubble were picked up by the matched picking machine which could finally get clean root stubble as there was soil removing mechanism on the machine. In this paper, the task was to dig the root stubble out of soil and the subsequent picking procedure was not discussed here. The gear box had 1 input shaft and 2 output shafts rotate at opposite directions. To meet different tillage requirements, the digging mechanism can be switched between reverse rotation and forward rotation through manual changes of the transmission

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chain’s installation position from left to right. Noted that though there were two pairs of flank sprockets, there was only one strip of chain, so only a pair of flank sprockets (either the right pair or the left pair) was at work at a time. Transmission sketches of reverse rotation and forward rotation were shown in (a) and (b) of fig.1 respectively.

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3.2 Part Design[3-6] Part design is the basis of 3 dimensional virtual design. In Solidworks, features are created from ways such as extrude, revolve, sweep, etc., and then combined together according to constraint relations to form parts. For example, the creating process of the bevel gear used in the machine was: create the basic feature by revolving the 2-D sketch around an axis(revolve) → create gear groove by removing material between the two profiles(loft-cut) → array gear groove around the axis(circular pattern) → create hole and keyway by cutting material(extrude-cut) → complete. The process is shown in fig.2.

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Fig. 2. Creating process of the bevel gear

Parts of the digging machine were created one by one and then saved in the same file folder, as this would make the file management more convenient especially in the subsequent assembly manipulation. During the design process, relationships among features must be taken into account. Generally, according to the order in which features are created, features and their relationships are listed in FeatureManager design tree on the left side of the interface. And for the convenience of feature modification, models can be zoomed in and out, freely rotated, hided and suppressed. 3.3 Assembly Design After parts design was completed, parts (or components) and necessary mates were inserted into assembly environment to form assembly models. Mates create geometric relationships between assembly components and define spatial position of one component relating to another. There are many mate types available in Solidworks such as coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, concentric, and so on. For the machine, according to the function of each mechanism, parts were assembled to 4 subassemblies including frame, transmission mechanism, suspension mechanism and

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digging mechanism. Then, these 4 sub-assemblies were combined together to form the complete assembly of root stubble digging machine. The gear box and the whole assembly were shown in fig.3 and fig.4 respectively.

Fig. 4. Whole assembly of the machine

3.4 Interference Detection Interference detection is one of the most important functions of Solidworks which can rapidly determine whether there is any interference between components and between sub-assemblies (a sub-assembly is treated as a single component). Here, the whole assembly was checked for interference, and according to analysis results, relevant details of parts and constraint settings between components were modified. The procedure was repeated until there wasn’t any interference, as shown in fig.5.

Fig. 5. Interference detection on the machine

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each drawing. Noted that 3-D models and 2-D engineering drawings were related with each other, namely any modification of dimensions made in 3-D part and assembly module would be reflected in drawing module and vice versa. Some necessary annotations such as weld symbol, geometric tolerance, surface finish symbol and BOM (Bill of Material), etc. were inserted into drawings as these were required for manufacture. Completed engineering drawings were saved in default file format of Solidworks and DWG format which was recognizable by AutoCAD. 2-D projection drawing of the whole machine was shown in fig.6.

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4 Conclusions (1) The necessity of mechanized root stubble harvesting and recycling was put forward from the perspective of biomass energy utilization, considering the traditional treating ways and its ingredient of high heating value and low sulfur. (2) Soliworks was applied to accomplish parts design, assembly design, interference detection and generation of 2-D engineering drawings. Results showed that the design was reasonable and feasible. (3) The created parts and assembly will be models for subsequent simulation and analysis if necessary. The study provides theoretical foundations and methodological references for the application of virtual prototype technology on the development of new agricultural machinery.

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Design of the Network Platform Scheme Based on Comprehensive Information Sharing of Zigong City’s Characteristic Agriculture Wen Lei, Hong Zhang, and Lecai Cai School of Computer Science, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, P.R. China [email protected]

Abstract. A network platform scheme targets the Zigong City’s characteristic agriculture is designed, which is according to the actuality of characteristic agriculture, the requirements of Comprehensive Information sharing, and the status of city’s network topology. In the scheme, many solutions are given out, such as the network architecture, distributed data storage, remote diagnosing, expert decision-making, comprehensive information sharing, distance learning & training, information managing, and the single sign-on logging, etc. Finally, the capability and security of the network scheme is analysed and summarized. Keywords: Agriculture, Comprehensive information sharing, Network platform, distance learning & training, Network architecture.

1 Introduction Agricultural informatization is the foundation and important way for modern agricultural development, it can reduce the investment, improve the quality and quantity of the agricultural production, reduce the influence of natural disasters, accelerate agricultural circulation, guide agricultural production and consumption. In market environment, it can help to optimize agricultural resources allocation, reduce market risk, accelerate the spread and popularization of agricultural technology, promote agricultural sci-tech personnel training, and improve the international competitiveness of agricultural products. The network is an important way to realize the agricultural informatization. This paper will aim at Zigong’s characteristic agriculture needs to build a comprehensive information sharing network platform. The platform is an agricultural comprehensive information sharing platform, which includes many functions, such as crop condition monitoring, remote diagnosing, expert decision, comprehensive information sharing, information release and management, products display, market information and instant communication function, etc. The platform is an important tool for users to store, look up and share information, which can collect the internal and external information, then classify and store them in database server. Through the platform, the merchants and agricultural leading department and farmers can share the information. The platform can help merchants and households easily to get market and product information, assist agricultural experts and agricultural leading department to do real-time guides for agricultural production. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 539–546, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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2 Zigong Characteristic Agriculture Status Zigong city locates in the South of Sichuan Basin, is a moist monsoon climate featuring subtropical zone. Its climate is beneficial to develop agriculture. According to the characteristics of Zigong, the city government has mapped out a regional planning of Zigong characteristic agriculture. The characteristic agricultural production is relatively concentrated, and gradually formed a certain scale of industrialized production pattern. At present, the main characteristic agriculture has more than 10 kinds, with the regional distribution in the area two district and four counties. But, in the characteristic agricultural production, there are still some problems, such as follows: (1)The quantity of agricultural sci-tech personnel is less, and most of them live in city, once there are some technological difficulties in production, farmers could hardly obtain the solution timely; (2)In a broad area, farmers are scattered here and there, it is difficult to concentrate to popularize agricultural scientific and technological knowledge, in addition, the agricultural leading department is also hard to grasp agricultural production status, and provide technological guidance;(3)It is not sufficient and timely to take the products market information, farmers are hardly to according the market demand to obtain the maximum economical efficiency;(4)The sales channel is single. Currently, the main sales mechanisms is merchants according to their own demands to buy produce from farmer, on the contrary, due to the lack of market information, farmers can hardly sale their produce to merchants actively, which is easily to cause the product backlog. To solve the above problems, it is the effective means to build a comprehensive information sharing platform. Through the platform, the farmers can easily gain agricultural science and technological information and market information, the agricultural leading department can also easily grasp the agricultural production status and guide agricultural production.

3 The Overall Design of Sharing Platform Scheme The information sharing platform is a distributed system structure. The planting and breeding belt establish their own regional information center, with Web integration technology, regional information is integrated to the sharing platform of city agricultural information center. The sharing platform through the city telecom network communicates with the regional information center. 3.1 The Design of Network Topology The platform network is constructed to a distributed network structure, the city agricultural information center LAN links to the regional information center network by city telecom network. Remote users can access the sharing platform through Internet, and local users through the city telecom network access the sharing platform or corresponding regional information center. The network topology is shown in figure 1.

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3.2 The Design of Sharing Platform Scheme According to the city characteristics agriculture information sharing demand, the platform construction tasks can be divided into 5 subsystems, includes expert system, the remote diagnosis system, information collection and release system, remote learning and training system, and single sign-on(SSO) system. The sharing platform structure is shown in figure 2. Among them, the front 4 systems will be independently developed, this scheme focuses on the single sign-on system.

4 The Detailed Design Scheme In practical applications, most farmers have low level of computer skill, they can only do simple network operation, and most time, the characteristic agricultural planting and breeding farmers are concerned with the agricultural science and technology and the basic pest control information, therefore, the regional information center is the main visit position. According to the practical needs, in sharing platform design, the characteristic agriculture basic information platform and comprehensive information sharing platform are combined the scheme. Each regional information center constructs its basic information platform, and in agricultural science and technology center set up a comprehensive information sharing platform, through the Web integration technology, regional information are integrated to the sharing information platform. Regional information center establish their own expert system, the basic information collection and release system, crop condition monitoring system and basic agriculture science and technology consultation system. The remote diagnosis, system information collection and release system, remote learning and training system and single sign-on system are established in the sharing platform.

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4.1.2 The Design of Login Certification Process The client is realized by plug-in, IE browser and Windows resource management are supported. It uses the Web Service SOAP protocol to interact with authentication server(AS). User login certification process is as follows: 1)The client enables HTTPS to connect the AS, and then sends the user name and password to AS by SOAP. 2) After receiving the information, the AS computes the password with MD5, then matches the result with the corresponding encrypted information in database. If they are mismatching, the AS refuses the login request, else, the AS sends an authentication token and URL field data(called URLCache List) to the client. The URLCache List is extracted from URLAgent table according to User_ID. 3) The AS inserts a new record into Token table. The record consists of SessID, UserID, CurrentIP and ExpireTime. Through the above steps, the user logins successfully. Then through the URL of URLCache List, he can access the corresponding service directly. In token validity, he does not need to relogin. 4.2 The Independently Developing System 4.2.1 Expert System Expert system is an intelligent information system with characteristic agriculture domain expert-level knowledge and experience. Since most farmers are lack of computer application skill, the system adopts question and mouse-click means to interact with users, according to mutual information, it can carry out the corresponding intelligent decision-making for users. In daily agricultural production, once insect appears, farmers can easily use the expert system to obtain the corresponding solved methods and skills. 4.2.2 Remote Diagnosis System

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2 ways of off-line diagnosis and online diagnosis. For off-line diagnosis, users can use photograph, text, pictures and graphics to collect information, and send the messages to the remote diagnostic system. After receiving the messages, system classifies them and submits them to the corresponding technical personnel or expert. When expert offers the solution, system will answer back to the user. For online diagnosis, using video interaction method to implement instant communication, users can interact with experts by using voice, text, video, images and graphics. 4.2.3 System Information Collection and Release System Information collection and release system is divided into 2 parts, the regional information center information collection and release system and the sharing platform of information collection and release system. The regional information center information collection and release system is mainly used to collect the information of crop growth, environment and agricultural products by artificial method or acquisition terminal, and the regional central database gathers, analysis, processing and issuing the information. Users can monitor crops state through the regional central Web. The sharing platform information collection and release system mainly includes 2 functions. One is using "link" search technology to gather products information from the regional information center, then classify and release them to the characteristic agriculture exhibition hall of sharing platform. The other is using resources location information retrieval technology and Web mining technology to collect the information of product and market demand, then classifying, analyzing, processing and release, and realize the subscription to users. 4.2.4 Distance Learning and Training System Distance learning and training system offers video courseware and real-time teaching services for users. Usually, the user can use video courseware to learn agricultural technology intuitively. If there is any technical training, remote training can be held through the real-time teaching system. Real-time teaching system is a multicast real-time teaching system, which is adopted with MPEG4 standard and video compression technology of H.264 standard, based on T.120 standards to develop and implement. It can also withstand over 500 user terminals online class at the same time, and provide many functions, such as the audio and video interacting, whiteboard sharing, document sharing, collaborative browsing etc.

5 Scheme Performance Analysis The scheme has higher communication performance and security performance of network communication. 5.1 Network Performance The sharing platform is based on city telecom broadband network, which is a distributed network system structure. As most access businesses occur in regional information

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center, the traffic is effectively reduced on the information sharing platform, it does not cause an access bottleneck in sharing platform. 5.2 Security Performance On the network boundary, firewall is configured, which can be effectively against the denial of service attacks. The access control by security certification can be effectively defense unauthorized access. Between the single sign-on system and regional information center, shared key is used to implement symmetric encryption communication, which can ensure confidentiality of information.

6 Conclusion Aiming at Zigong characteristic agriculture production and marketing demand, this comprehensive information sharing platform is designed, which is planned to complete within 3 years. So far, the constructions of the city information center agricultural information network and the basic information platform of the black goat breeding center of construction have completed. With this scheme achievement and application, it will strongly promote the city characteristic agricultural development with intensification, scale and commercialization, improve agricultural production efficiency and benefit, and speed up the agricultural informatization construction.

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Detection of Surface Defects of Fruits Based on Fractal Dimension Yongxiang Sun, Yong Liang, and Qiulan Wu School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong Province, P.R. China, 271018 [email protected]

Abstract. As the identification of surface defects is very important in fruit automatic detection, a new method for the detection of fruit surface defects based on fractal dimension is suggested. In this method, fruit image was collected using computer vision system. The fractal dimension of fruit image was calculated by an improved ‘box dimension’. The fruit fractal dimension reflects the three dimensional characteristics of the fruit as well as information of the fruit surface. The detection of surface defects of fruits was performed according to a given threshold of fruit image fractal dimension. The results on Fuji apple fruits showed that the improved ‘box dimension’ method was effective and reliable in the detection of fruit defects for its improvement in the accuracy in the calculation of the fractal dimension. Keywords: Fruit; Surface defects; Detection; Fractal dimension.

1 Introduction Although much progress has been made in fruit automatic grading world widely, the detection of fruit surface defects was the most difficult and became one of the limiting factors. [1] In recent years, the development of the theory of fractal provides a new way for the detection of fruit surface defects.[2, 3] Fractal theory is an important branch of nonlinear scientific that gained much attention, which focuses on objects with irregular shape in nonlinear systems in nature. As fractal geometry has many advantages in describing and analyzing the chaotic, irregular and random phenomenon in nature in comparison with traditional geometry, fractal theory was widely used in mathematics, physics, chemistry, material science, biology, medicine, geography, earthquake, astronomy, computer science, and so on. In particularly, in computer science, the ideas and methods of fractal have been made much success in pattern recognition, natural images simulation, and signal processing.[4] In this paper, the detection of fruit defects was successfully performed by analyzing the fractal feature of the fruit image, which is obtained from a computerized image processing system. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 547–554, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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2 The Calculation of Fractal Dimension of Fruit Image The fractal dimension represents the irregularities of an object, reflecting the shape as well as the surface characteristics of geometric solids. At present, there are several methods concerning the calculation of fractal dimension, in which the ‘box dimension’ became one of the most widely used as it can be easily performed in computer.[5] 2.1 The Traditional Method for the Calculation of ‘Box Dimension’ Let F be a nonempty finite subset of R, Nδ(F) be the amounts of the boxes covering F which has the maximum diameter δ.[6] The lower and upper box dimension of F could be expressed as in formula (1) and (2), respectively.

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According to formula (5), different values of Nr can be obtained with different values of r. Thus, the slope of (log (N r),-log (r)), namely the box dimension D, can be fitted using linear least squares regression. z y

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In computer, the algorithm for the calculation of the fractal dimension of a gray image is as follows. i. Binarization of the image. Namely, the value of matrix elements of the image is let to be either 1 or 0. ii. Partition of the binary image. Within each parts of the image, its row = column=K(K=1 2 4 … 2i). Thus the image is partitioned into parts of 2i×2i, 2i-1×2i-1, 2i-2×2i-2 …… 21×21 20×20, 2i ≤ the length of the image. iii. Calculation of the pixels. The amounts of image parts that contain the pixel “1” are calculated which is denoted as NK , Thus a serious of values N1, N2, ……, N(i+1) as well as data pairs (K, NK) with the amounts of (i +1), are obtained. iv. Curve fitting. A straight line can be obtained using least squares method (-logK, logNK). v. Calculation of the fractal dimension of the image. The slope of the fitted line, namely the fractal dimension of the image, was determined.

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In this method, as all of the cubes are located in a fixed position in the calculation of amounts of boxes Nδ(F), there are some disadvantages in the calculation of box dimensions. For example, there are situations that although the curves of some image surfaces are slight, they cover between two cubes. Therefore, the amounts of boxes covering this kind of surface are even more than the amounts of boxes covering image surfaces with larger curves. In this situation, there are some boxes that are not in set F. In the condition of δ→0, this effect on the calculation of box dimension is negligible. But for digital images, δ is not always very small. In this condition, the calculation of box dimensions is affected as the surface is not totally covered by cubes. This situation might get even worse with even larger δ values. 2.2 An Improved Method for the Calculation of ‘Box Dimension’ To solve this problem, an improved method for the calculation of box dimensions was suggested in this paper, which eliminated the effects of ‘empty boxes’ in comparison

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with the traditional method, by covering the image surface with the least amount of δcubes. In the improved method, the cubes are not confined to a fixed position; instead, they can move along the z axis.[8] In this method, great improvement was achieved in the calculation of box dimensions due to reduced amounts of boxes as well as improvement in the tightness that the boxes cover the image surface. The essence of this improved method is that the cuboids of size r×r×r' with variable heights are adopted to cover the image surface instead of the fixed-size cubes of size r×r×r. This method does not disobey the definition of box dimension; instead, it approaches even more close to the essence of the definition of box dimension in comparison with the traditional method for the improvement in the tightness that the boxes cover the image surface (Figure 2). z y

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The realization process is as follows. The M×M gray image is partitioned into grids of r×r size in the x-y plane (M 1 /3 ≤r≤M /2, r being an integer). Each grid encloses a series of boxes of r×r×r′ size, whose height r′ is a variable, as shown in Figure 2. i. Calculation on the amounts of boxes within the (i, j) grid. Firstly, the serial number of the boxes in each pixel is tracked and scanned within the (i, j) grid; secondly, the gray value of each pixel is calculated within the (i, j) grid; finally, the statistical result, namely the set of indexi, j, can be obtained. ii. Scan of the set indexi, j. In the scanning, elements that appear only once are totally adopted while elements that appear more than once are considered to be the same. A new set indexnew is used to record the serial number of different boxes. The set indexnew can be expressed in formula (6). Indexnew={indexi, j (1),indexi, j (2),…,indexi, j(Q)}

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However, it should be pointed out that much costs would be needed in the calculation of the amounts of boxes in the (i, j) grid in comparison with the traditional method, which should be resolved to work more efficiently in this algorithm.

3 Detection of Surface Defects of Fruits Based on Fractal Dimension This improved algorithm of differential box-counting can be used in fruit surface defects detection. Firstly, fruit image was collected and preprocessed (including graying, noise filtering). Secondly, an appropriate threshold was set, and then removal of the background and binarization of the isolated fruit image was performed.[9] Thirdly, fractal dimension D of the fruit image was calculated using the improved box dimension algorithm. Finally, the threshold of fractal dimension Dthd was determined according to different kinds of fruits, which is used to determine whether the fruit has defects or not. The flow chart of this process is shown in Figure 3. Fruit image acquisition and preprocessing (graying, noise filtering)

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4 Detection of Surface Defects in Fuji Apple Fruits To test whether this method is reliable in fruit defects detection, 50 Fuji apple fruits that have surface defects (defective fruits) and 50 normal fruits were selected. The experimental device was shown in Figure 4. The image acquisition card is DH-CG410 (Daheng Company, China). The image size is 512 × 512 pixels. CCD camera is WV-CP230 (Panasonic).

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In order to reflect the entire surface of the fruit and to eliminate the effect of position and directions of the fruit on the detection results, eight images were collected for each fruit from random directions. Totally 800 fruit images were collected, which were numbered by letters plus numbers. For example, the 8 images of sample 1 were numbered as A1, B1, C1, D1, E1, F1, G1, and H1, respectively. The representative gray images of 6 samples were shown in Figure 5 and the fractal dimensions derived from this improved method were shown in Table 1.

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Table 1 shows that for the same sample, there was no much difference between the maximum and the minimum box dimensions, indicating that this improved boxcounting method was reliable. The fractal dimension threshold Dthd is set to be 1.30 based on this experiment. According to this value, the detection results of the selected 100 apples are shown in Table 2.

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Detection Technology for Precision Metering Performance of Magnetic-Type Seeder Based on Machine Vision Deyong Yang1,2, Jianping Hu2, and Zuqing Xie2 1

School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China 212013 2 Key Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Equipment and Technology, Ministry of Education & Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, P.R. China 212013 [email protected]

Abstract. Magnetic-type seeder is a precision metering device, particularly suitable for small seeds. A visual inspection system for precision performance of magnetic-type seeder was established based on machine vision and image processing technology. By using pre-treatment techniques including image binarization and image filtering, image quality was enhanced effectively. As the grayscale value of the seeds coated with magnetic powder is very close to the electromagnet, the method of seed feature extraction based on morphological image processing is proposed and performance testing model of precision metering seed is put forward. The results of comparison between machine vision and manual detection showed that the relative error of preciseness was less than 3% and coefficient of variation and standard deviation were less than 5%, which indicated the system is of high accuracy when used in real-time detection. Keywords: precision metering, performance detection, magnetic-type seeder, machine vision.

1 Introduction Metering device is the core component of seed planters, which performance is important for planter design and manufacture. The performance improvement of precision metering device depends on accurate and efficient detection technology. There were manual detection, opto-electronic scanning [1], piezoelectric pulse and high-speed photography [2] and other methods. In the recent years, the research of non-contact detection of precision planting quality using machine vision technology conducted gradually [3],[4],[5],[8]. Magnet roller-type precision seeder was developed according to magnetic seed-metering principle, which solve precision seeding of small seed like vegetable seeds and flower seeds [6].In this research, vision detecting of precision performance of magnetic-type seed metering device was undertaken, and visual detection accuracy was discussed. D. Li, Y. Liu, and Y. Chen (Eds.): CCTA 2010, Part I, IFIP AICT 344, pp. 555–562, 2011. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011

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2 Materials and Methods 2.1 Seed Rape seed of 2.412 g /1000 seeds was used for this study. Seeds must be coated with magnetic powder. 2.2 The Vision Detection System A test stand with camera system was used to detect performance of precision metering device, as shown in Fig.1 and Fig.2. Magnetic-type seed metering device has 4 rows magnetic head per revolution. Sufficient oil was added to the top surface of the seed-bed belt to capture the seed as it was released from metering device. The speeds of the metering roller were set at 15, 20 and 30 rpm while the speed of seed-bed belt was 0.5 m/s. The camera is a high-resolution, black-and-white, low-light, manual gain adjustment MTV-1881EX equipped with AVENIR Seiko CCTV lens, manual iris of F1.3, focal length of 8mm. Lighting system is made up of the lighting box, 12V DC lamps and blocking mask, and 6 lamps are fixed below the box, and the camera and lighting are arranged hierarchically to obtain stable, no shadow and uniform illumination image to meet the needs of image processing. As seed-bed belt moved at a constant speed, seeds from the metering device fall onto the moving belt and were sticked on the belt. With the movement of the belt, seeds go through the camera and the camera records images and collect data, then transfer into the computer for processing.

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2.3 Image Processing Because the images in the collection and transmission process were interfered by all sorts of disturbance and contain random noise in addition to images useful signal, the images must be treated by a series of methods, such as median filtering and image splicing, to remove the noise and make seed target and background separate completely. 2.3.1 Binary Image Processing In seed image acquisition process, relatively stable reservoir thickness, viscosity, seeds, colour and lustre etc are likely to make gray-scale values of image pixel except seeds are 1. Therefore, seeds are separated with background by using binary processing. The background in this research is simple and few changed, so a preprocessing fixed threshold method was tried, namely, by setting a certain threshold, make gray scale image into two gray value of black-and-white images, which would target and background separated. Its function expression is as follows: ⎧0 f ( x) = ⎨ ⎩1

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