Scope and publishing areas

Engineering in Agriculture is a journal in continuous publication and is associated with the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). It publishes original scientific works of technical-scientific relevance. In general terms, it is interested in the dissemination of scientific articles in the broad areas of knowledge, specifically:

  • Digital Agriculture
  • Agricultural Products Storage and Processing
  • Rural Buildings and Environment  
  • Energy in Agriculture
  • Agricultural Mechanization
  • Agricultural Meteorology
  • Water and Environmental Resources

The scope of the journal is described in detail below:

Digital Agriculture

  • Remotely-piloted aircrafts
  • Precision agriculture and precision livestock
  • Big data and data analysis
  • Connectivity, telecommunication in agriculture and telemetry in agriculture machinery
  • Agricultural software development
  • Geotechnologies (SIG, SR, GNSS, Photogrammetry, etc.) applied to agriculture
  • Artificial Intelligence (machine learning and deep learning)
  • Internet of things (IoT) and traceability
  • Robotization and automation in agriculture
  • Sensors and Biosensors: development and application in agriculture
  • Computer vision and image analysis

Agricultural Products Storage and Processing

  • Storage of agricultural product
  • Pollution control in storing units
  • Control of stored grain pests
  • Control and automation of systems and processes 
  • Modeling and simulation of process and systems 
  • Coffee post-harvest 
  • Production and technology of rations
  • Seed production and technology 
  • Design of facilities for processing and storage of agricultural products
  • Physical properties of agricultural products 
  • Drying of condiment, medicinal, and aromatic plants 

Rural Buildings and Environment  

  • Agroindustry
  • Environment in animal and plant production 
  • Animal welfare
  • Biosensors
  • Animal behavior 
  • Comfort and thermal stress
  • Development of sensor for animal production
  • Industrial facilities for food production 
  • Artificial intelligence in agroindustry 
  • Air quality in animal production 
  • Traceability in food production 
  • Decision support system in agroindustry 
  • Ventilation system 
  • Sustainability in food production
  • Precision livestock farming-PLF 

Energy in Agriculture

  • Automation, instrumentation, modelling and control in agricultural processes 
  • Electrotechnics and electrical modeling and installations 
  • Biomass energy and residue energy use
  • Rural power supply
  • Thermal engineering and biofuel  
  • Fermentation and biosynthetic energy production 
  • Energy conventional sources and alternatives and their rational use in agriculture 
  • Environmental systems modeling 
  • Optimization of agroindustry systems 
  • Sustainable rural planning and developments 
  • Integrated energy resources planning 
  • Biomass production and processing
  • Energy use rationalization in agro-industrial processes 
  • Development of electronic device for application in agro-industrial processes
  • Electrical drives of agro-industrial equipment
  • Artificial intelligence applied to agro-industrial processing

Agricultural Mechanization

  • Precision agriculture
  • Embedded electronics in agricultural equipment
  • Tests and evaluation of agricultural equipment
  • Ergonomics of agricultural machinery
  • Management and logistics of agricultural operation
  • Agricultural machine learning
  • Soil management
  • Agriculture machinery design
  • Soil-machine association
  • Robotics in agriculture
  • Remote sense
  • Technology in the application of agriculture pesticides

Agricultural Meteorology

  • Climate-smart agriculture 
  • Agrometeorology
  • Biometeorology
  • Climate and land use 
  • Carbon stocks in agriculture 
  • Hydroclimatology
  • Agrometeorological instrumentation
  • Micrometeorology in agricultural and forest ecosystem
  • Agrometeorological modeling
  • Climate changes and agriculture
  • Remote sensing of vegetation
  • Climate variability and agriculture

Water and Environmental Resources

  • Agricultural use of wastewater and solid waste
  • Evaluation of irrigation system
  • Soil and water conservation
  • Natural disasters and management of water resources in agricultural environments
  • Irrigation and draining engineering and management
  • Fertigation, chemigation and solute transport
  • Watershed management
  • Agricultural hydraulics
  • Statistical hydrology, hydrological modelling and simulation
  • Hydropedology
  • Hydro-sedimentology
  • Plant production
  • Environmental quality (water, air and soil)
  • Irrigation water quality and reuse
  • Rural and agricultural areas sanitation
  • Evapotranspiration assessment techniques
  • Wastes treatments and resources recovery in rural, agricultural and agro-industrial context
  • Groundwater use, management and quality