Precision Agriculture Research Program

Dr. Aitazaz Farooque



Assistant Professor

Department of Engineering
School of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island
Charlottown, Prince Edward Island, Canada C1A 4P3
Phone: (902) 566-6084
E-mail: afarooque@upei.ca


Research Topics: 

Sustainability, Bioinstrumentation, Water quality, Environmental management, Computer-vision, Imaging, Agricultural automation, Precision agriculture, GPS-GIS-VRT

Education

  • Ph.D., (Mechanical Engineering), Dalhousie University
  • M.Sc., (Agr. Engineering), Dalhousie University
  • B.Sc., (Agr. Engineering), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad

Specialties:

Precision Agriculture, GPS/GIS, Sensor Development, Instrumentation, Machine Vision, Image Processing, Automation and Variable Rate Technologies

Teaching:

  • ENGN 2011 (Technology for Precision Agriculture)
  • ENGN 2001 (Agricultural Machinery)
  • ENGN 3016 (Engineering Economy)
  • ENGN 4002 (Management of Mechanized Agricultural Systems)