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National Center for International Collaboration Research on Precision Agricultural Aviation Pesticide Spraying Technology
“National Center for International Collaboration Research on Precision Agricultural Aviation (PAA) Pesticide Spraying Technology” is the national research center approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. The Center focuses on aerial plant protection for typical food crops and economic crops in China, and jointly carry out innovation research, around the concept of precision agricultural aviation, on the key technologies and common issues for agricultural aviation remote sensing, precision aerial variable spraying and other related technologies and equipment with the USDA ARS Aerial Application Technology Research Unit (USDA-ARS-AATRU), the Center of Pesticide Application and Safety, the University of Queensland, Australia, and other world-class research institutions in advanced agricultural aviation application technologies. The Center is equipped with nine specialized laboratories of agricultural aviation application technologies, including Agriculture Airborne Remote Sensing Laboratory, Agricultural Aerial Work Platforms Research Laboratory, Agriculture Aerial Spraying Research Laboratory, Agricultural Aviation Testing Technology Laboratory, Agricultural Aerial Spraying Efficacy Evaluation Laboratory, Agricultural Aviation Sensor Development Laboratory, Agricultural Aviation Big Data Laboratory, Agricultural Aviation Industry-Education-Research Cooperation Laboratory, and Agricultural Aviation Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The research team of the Center is composed of more than 50 faculty members plus over 60 MS/PhD students from agricultural engineering, mechanical engineering, electronics, communications, mechanics, computer engineering, plant protection and other various disciplines. The research platforms of the Center also include “Precision Agricultural Aviation Application Technology Research Overseas Expertise Introduction Center for Discipline Innovation (111 Center)” approved in August, 2018 by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and the Ministry of Education of China, “International Laboratory of Agricultural Aviation Pesticide Spraying Technology” and “International Laboratory of Agricultural Aviation Applied Technology” approved by Guangdong Province in 2015.
The Center has about 1500m2 of office space and 7000m2, of research & service area. The Center owns TSI Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), Cubert UHD185 Hyperspectral Camera, ASD FieldSpec 4 Hi-Res NG Spectroradiometer, ASD HandHeld 2 Hand-held VNIR Spectroradiometer, F-380 Spectrofluorometer, EZ-Pi Dynamic Surface Tensionmeter, NVIDIA Tesla GPU Super Server and other advanced facility and equipment with the total original value of 30 million yuan RMB. The agricultural aviation wind tunnel laboratory completed in May 2017, was designed and constructed based on the latest international ISO standard ISO22856-2012. The wind tunnel is the first combined wind tunnel in China with high-speed and low-speed function especially for agricultural aviation research. It is also one of the most advanced wind tunnels in agricultural engineering area of the world.
The Center has established five collaborative centers at the USDA-ARS-AATRU in the United States, the Center of Pesticide Application and Safety, the University of Queensland in Australia, Ag-Nav Inc. in Canada, Harper Adams University in the United Kingdom, and PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi in Pakistan. Collaborations have been implemented in personnel training, joint tests of aviation spraying and research and development of key technologies and equipment for agricultural aviation. At present, the Center has built industry-education-research cooperation bases with 20 domestic and overseas famous agricultural aviation and pesticides enterprises. Large-scale filed spraying experiments have been jointly carried out every year.
In the past five years, the Center has been presiding over and undertaking more than 10 key national and provincial projects with the total research funding of over 140 million yuan RMB, including 2016 National Key Research and Development Plan “High Efficient Ground and Aerial Spraying Technology and Intelligent Equipment”, and projects supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China and Guangdong Key Research and Development Plan. Significant progress has been achieved in research and development of aerial pesticides spraying technology, low altitude UAV remote sensing equipment and technology, intelligent control systems of agricultural UAVs, key components, control technology and equipment for agricultural UAV precision spraying, and agricultural UAV performance test platform. More than 150 research articles have been published with over 90 articles indexed by SCI/EI. More than 90 national invention patents have been applied and over 30 have been authorized.