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Yafit Cohen, Ph.D.  (Researcher)
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Pob 6, Bet-Dagan, 50250, Israel
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Research Interests / Job description
Precision agriculture: thermal and htper-spectral imagey for monitoring and mapping water status and nitrogen level in various crops and orchards.
Spatio-temporal nalysis of pests and deseases: Medfly, Plive fly, Pear Psylla, Potato late blight and soil-borne diseases.
Development of spatial knowledge-bades decision support systems for pest control.
Remote sensing for recognition and mapping of crop types.
Delineation of Green corridors using remote sensing and GIS;

List recent, relevant publications.

1a. Cohen, Y., 2002. Green corridors in central Israel: a GIS analysis of alternative spatial configurations. Geography Research Forum, 22, 110-136.

2a. Cohen, Y., and Shoshany, M., 2002. A national knowledge-based crop recognition in Mediterranean environment. Int. J. of Earth Observation and GeoInformation, 4, 75-87.

3a. Cohen, Y., Shoshany, M., and Doytsher, Y., 2004. Integrating Pseudo-Hydrologic Logic in Road Extraction. Surveying and Land Information Systems, 64, 43-52.

4a. Cohen, Y., 2004. Satellite images and GIS for updating agricultural information: The knowledge-based system approach. Contemporary Israeli Geography. Eds. Inbar, M. and Maoz, Y. 61-62: 215-226. (reviewed)

5a. Cohen, Y., Alchanatis, V., Meron, M. and Saranga, Y. 2005. Estimation of leaf water potential by thermal imagery and spatial analysis. International Journal of Experimental Botany, 56, (417), 1843-1852.

6a. Cohen, Y., and Shoshany, M., 2005. Analysis of convergent evidence in an evidential reasoning knowledge-based classification. Remote Sensing of Environment, 96, 518-528.

7a. Shoshany, M., and Cohen, Y., 2007. Inference versus evidence in reasoning remote sensing recognition: with an information foraging perspective. International Journal of Remote sensing, 28 (11), 2613-2634.

8a. Möller, M., Alchanatis, V, Cohen, Y., Meron, M., Tsipris, J., Naor, A., Ostrovsky, V., Sprintsin, M., and Cohen, S. 2007. Use of thermal and visible imagery for estimating crop water status of irrigated grapevine. International Journal of Experimental Botany, 58(4), 827-838.

9d. Rud, R., Shoshany, M., Alchanatis, V., and Cohen, Y. 2007. Application of spectral features' ratios for improving classification in partially calibrated hyperspectral imagery: a case study of separating Mediterranean vegetation species. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 1(2), 143-152.

10a. Cohen, Y., Cohen, A., Hetzroni, A., Alchanatis, A., Broday, D., Gazit, Y., and Timar D. 2008. Spatial decision support system for Medfly control in citrus. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 62(2), 107-117.

11a. Cohen, Y., Amit-Cohen, I., Cohen, A., and Shoshany, M. 2008. Least cost path for green corridors delineation in metropolitan margins: the distance weighting effects. Journal of Spatial Science (in press).

12a. Cohen, A., Cohen, Y., Broday, D., and Timar D. 2008. Performance and acceptance evaluation of a knowledge-based SDSS for Medfly area-wide control. Journal of Applied Entomology (in press).

13a. Kounatidis, I., Papadopoulos, Ν.T., Mavragani-Tsipidou, P., Cohen, Y., Terivanidis, K., Nomikou, M., and Nestel, D. 2008. Effect of Elevation on Olive fly (Bactrocera oleae) Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Northern Greece. Journal of Applied Entomology (in press).

14a. Cohen, Y. Alchanatis, V., Zusman, Y., Dar, Z., Bonfil, D., Zilberman, A., Karnieli A., Ostrovsky, V., Levi, A., Brikman, R., and Shenker, M., 2008. Nitrogen evaluation in potato using spectral data and the potential in use of Venus satellite. Sade Ve'Yarak, August, 2008, 5: 41-50. (Hebrew)

15a. Bonfil, D., Mufradi, I., Asidu, S., Cohen, Y., and Nir, Y., 2006. Spatial variability in wheat grain protein in the field. Gan, Sade U'Meshek, 6: 7-11.(Hebrew)

Articles in symposia proceedings:   

1a. Cohen, Y., Shoshany, M., 2001. Conceptualization and Implementation of Knowledge Based System for crop recognition in Mediterranean Environments. Proceedings, IGARSS01' - IEEE Int. Geoscience and RS Symposium, 9-13 July, 2001, Sydney, Australia.

2a. Cohen, Y. 2005. Precision management of fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides using optical sensing and GIS. The International Symposium on Innovation and Development of Urban Agricultural Engineering 2005, Beijing, China.

3a. Alchanatis, V., Cohen, Y., Möller, M., Meron, M., Tsipris, J., Naor, A., Ostrovsky, V., Sprintsin, M., and Cohen, S.. 2006. Fusion of IR and Multispectral Images in the Visible Range for Empirical and Model Based Mapping of Crop Water Status. Annual ASABE conference, July 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA.

4a. Cohen, Y., Hezroni, A., Cohen, A., Timar, D., Gazit, Y., and Alchanatis, V. 2006. Developing Spatial Decision Support System for Medfly Control in Israel. Annual ASABE conference, July 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA.

5a. Cohen, Y., Y. Zusman, V. Alchanatis, Z. Dar, D. Bonfil, A. Zilberman, A. Karnieli, V. Ostrovsky, A. Levi, R. Brikman, and M. Shenker. 2007. Nitrogen prediction in potato petioles based on spectral data and hyperspectral images. Dahlia Greidinger Symposium - Advances technologies for monitoring nutrient and water availability to plants, March 2007, Haifa, Israel. Pp: 105-117

6a. Cohen, Y., Y. Zusman, V. Alchanatis, Z. Dar, D. Bonfil, A. Zilberman, A. Karnieli, V. Ostrovsky, A. Levi, R. Brikman, and M. Shenker. 2007. Nitrogen prediction in potato petioles based on spectral data and hyperspectral images.

In:J. V. Stafford (ed.), European Conference in Precision Agriculture 2007, Skiathos, Greece. Wageningen Acad. Publ.  The Netherlands. Pages: 143-150.

7a. Sela, E., Y. Cohen, V. Alchanatis, Y. Saranga, S. Cohen, M. Möller, M. Meron, A. Bosak, J. Tsipris and V. Orolov. 2007. Thermal imaging for estimating and mapping crop water stress in cotton. In: J. V. Stafford (ed.), European Conference in Precision Agriculture 2007, Skiathos, Greece. Wageningen Acad. Publ.  The Netherlands. Pages: 365-371.

8a. Cohen, A., Y. Cohen, D. Broday, A. Hezroni, V. Alchanatis, D. Timar, Y. Gazit. 2007. Developing a Learning Mechanism for SDSS for Medfly Control in Citrus. In: J. V. Stafford (ed.), European Conference in Precision Agriculture 2007, Skiathos, Greece. Wageningen Acad. Publ.  The Netherlands. Pages: 723-730.

9a. M. Meron, J. Tsipris and Valerie Orlov, V. Alchnatis and Yafit Cohen. 2008. Crop water stress mapping for site specific irrigation by thermal imagery and artificial reference surfaces. 9th International Conference on Precision Agriculture and other Precision Resources, July, 2008, Denver, Colorado, USA.

10a. Alan Moulin, Yafit Cohen, Victor Alchanatis, Nicolas Tremblay. 2008. Spatial and Temporal Variability of Potato Petiole Nitrogen in Response to Nitrogen Fertilizer, Implications for Variable Management. Joint Annual Meeting ASA-CSSA-SSSA, October, 2008, Houston, Texas, USA.

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