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ArticleNature communications2024

An agricultural digital twin for mandarins demonstrates the potential for individualized agriculture.

Steven Kim, Seong Heo

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
31.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Steven KimDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, 93955, USA. stkim@csumb.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1845-8410
Seong HeoDepartment of Horticulture, Kongju National University, Yesan, 32439, Republic of Korea. heoseong@kongju.ac.kr.ORCID 0000-0003-4485-8810
California State University, Monterey Bay · USKongju National University · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A digital twin is a digital representation that closely resembles or replicates a real world object by combining interdisciplinary knowledge and advanced technologies. Digital twins have been applied to various fields, including to the agricultural field. Given big data and systematic data management, digital twins can be used for predicting future outcomes. In this study, we endeavor to create an agricultural digital twin using mandarins as a model crop. We employ an Open API to aggregate data from various sources across Jeju Island, covering an area of approximately 185,000 hectares. The collected data are visualized and analyzed at regional, inter-orchard, and intra-orchard scales. We observe that the intra-orchard analysis explains the variation of fruit quality substantially more than the inter-orchard analysis. Our data visualization and analysis, incorporating statistical models and machine learning algorithms, demonstrate the potential use of agricultural digital twins in the future, particularly in the context of micro-precision and individualized agriculture. This concept extends the current management practices based on data-driven decisions, and it offers a glimpse into the future of individualized agriculture by enabling customized treatment for plants, akin to personalized medicine for humans.

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AgricultureTechnologyAlgorithmsBig DataData CollectionHumans

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PMID38378798
PMCPMC10879191
OpenAlexW4391953811

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