Sen4Stat: demonstration in Nioro, Senegal by Nicolas Deffense

La fertilisation microdose (FM) est promue en Afrique sub-saharienne pour booster la productivité agricole. Cette technique consiste en l’apport localisé de petites quantités d’engrais (2 à 6g / poquet) aux pieds des jeunes plants après la levée. Cependant, la variabilité de la réponse des cultures à la FM peut constituer une barrière à son adoption.

Louis Cordonnier présentera un séminaire sur “Modélisation empirique de la croissance à partir du dispositif FORBIO-Gedinne : « Quel est l’impact du mélange d’espèces sur la croissance individuelle ? A partir des données dendrométriques des plantations expérimentales FORBIO-Gedinne plantées en2009-2010.”

Quentin Deffense present “Exploiting spatial and temporal dimension for pixel based crop types classification” Teams

The total quantity of pesticides used in agriculture drops each year in Belgium, as new active-substances are efficient at lower doses. Yet, in terms of surface area impacted, the use of pesticide shows a continuous increase.

Salinity is an important environmental constraint which strongly reduces crop yield in several areas in the world. Rice (Oryza sativa) is considered as a salt-sensitive species and improvement of salt resistance is a major goal for plant breeders. Some species in the Oryza genus may constitute an interesting source of genes for rice improvement.

on teams Constraining depositional phases in braided river deposits can be challenging if only based on sedimentology or geochronology. We explored how different data sources can provide complementary information on the depositional history of Pleistocene fluvial deposits. The study was realized on the Zutendaal gravels that outcrop in Northeastern Belgium.

Radiation, heat and mass fluxes through the terrestrial surface are affected by the vegetation layer. Therefore, an accurate characterization of the vegetation above the land surface is particularly relevant in order to estimate the exchange of water between the land and the atmosphere and their feedbacks.