Program

26^th May, 2010 in the afternoon, starting at 2.00pm

Thursday May 27

• 8:30 - 17:00 Registration

• 9:15 - 9:30 Opening Remarks (delegato Ministero Politiche Agricole e Forestali)

• 9:30 – 10:00 Invited lecture: On farm NIR analysis and its role in precision feeding. David R. Mertens (Mertens Innovation LLC)

 Plenary Session 1: Hardware.

• This session will have contributions related to the latest technology in NIR sensors used in On site, On line application. The Hardware session will be closed by short (10-15min) presentations of hardware suppliers.

• 10:00-10:15 Testing a new generation NIR diode array instruments for inline quality measurement. P. Reyns, B. Kemps, W. Saeys, Y. Denion-Lair, J. Sentjens, M. De Winter and B.de Ketelaere, J. De Baerdemaeker

• 10:15-10:30 Proceedings in Sample Presentation on Harvesting Machines. L. Urbonas and  H. Krüger

• 10:30-10:45 Diode Arrays, Optical Resolution, Data Spacing and Information Content. D. E. Honigs

• 10:45 - 11:15 coffee break - Posters

• 11:15 -12:00 Sponsor Session 1: Zeiss/ John Deere, M.U.T. AG, Polytec GmbH.

• 12:00-12:45 Invited lecture: Chemometric NIR-technology to identify the quality of biological individuals as exemplified by single seed mass sorting. L. Munk

 12:45 – 13:45 Lunch

Plenary Session 2: Software.

• This session will focus on calibration or standardization algorithms that may beneficial for On site, On Line applications. The Software session will be closed by short (10-15min) presentations of software suppliers.

• 13:45 -14:15 Invited lecture: NIRS Measurement and Calibration Development for Onsite Applications: Software Requirements. Heirich Prufer & Peter Tillman

• 14:15 - 14:30    Comparison between different standardization methods for the quality estimation of forages in portable NIR spectrometers. P. Facco, M. Barolo and F. Benozzo

• 14:30 - 15:00 Sponsor Session 2: Sensologic GmbH, Camo

15:00-15:30 Coffee break - Posters

 Plenary Session 3: Applications.

• 15:30 - 16:00 NIR on the Go at CRAW : 15 years of experience (1995-2010). G. Sinnaeve and P. Dardenne

• 16:00 – 16:30 Portable NIR Instruments for Agriculture Applications. J. Shenk    

• 16:30 – 16:45 On-site, on-line determination of total solids, nitrogen and phosphorus in liquid hog-manure. P. Williams, D. Malley and E. Eising

• 16:45 – 17:00 Nutrient based Slurry Application by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. C. R. Moschner

• 17:00 – 17:15 In-Line Near-Infrared-Monitoring of the Biogas Process. H. Andre, R. Baumgarten

• 17:15 – 17:30 Using NIR spectroscopy on milk for the traceability of cows feeding. M. Coppa, B. Martin, C. Agabriel, I. Constant, G. Lombardi, and D. Andueza

• 17:30 – 18:00 Round Table: NIR on the GO…where is it going? An open discussion to make this technology a success (Christian Paul, Phil William, Pierre Dardenne, Paolo Berzaghi, Frédéric Larsson).

20:00 Gala dinner at Hotel Galileo (Padova).

Friday May 28

Plenary Session 4: Applications (Continue).

• 09:00 – 09: 15 Efficient Recirculation of Liquid Farm Fertiliser and Biogas Substrate using NIRS-NANOBAG®       W. Wenzl, B. Steiner, L. Haberl, W. Somitsch, S. Petrak

• 09:15 – 09:30 Variation among days in the dry matter of silages in bunker and tower silos measured using diode-array NIRS. J.Karlen

• 09:30 – 10:30 Sponsor Session 3: Dinamica Generale s.r.l., Haldrup GmbH, Grainit s.r.l., VDLUFA.

10:30-11:30 coffee break – Posters

• 11:30 – 11:45 Application of FT-NIR for determination of wood provenance. A. Sandak, J. Sandak, M. Negri

• 11:45 – 12:00 Precision Feeding: NIR on line & TMR consistency. A. Barbi, A. Ghiraldi,  M. Manzoli, and P. Berzaghi

• 12:00 – 12:15 Tailored NIR Reflection Spectroscopic Methods for the Advanced Characterization of Nanomaterials. C.W. Huck

• 12:15 – 12:30 Closing remarks.

• 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

• Afternoon: guided visit to Palazzo del Bo' or Cappella degli Scrovegni, only on demand.

Poster

1. NIRS on-site vs at-line: Transferability and robustness of chemometric models on fresh silages. A. Martínez-Fernández, A. Soldado, A. González, F. Vicente and B. De la Roza-Delgado 
2. Drip loss determination of pork chops with NIR. S. Ampuero, Kragten and G. Bee
3. Quality assessment of small grain accessions by means of near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy on a mobile at-line system. V. Hahn and M. Gowda
4. Soil Carbon Monitoring with NIR: Potentials and Challenges. J. Miltz and A. Don
5. Ripening monitoring of plums using NIR-instruments. D. Baumgartner
6. Use of NIRS for the prediction of the chemical composition of sainfoin Onobrychis viciifolia Scop. S. Demdoum, F. Muñoz, I. Delgado and D. Andueza
7. Online Near Infrared Classification of Iberian Pigs Carcasses According to their Feeding Regime. E. Zamora-Rojas, A. Garrido-Varo, E. De Pedro-Sanz, J.E. Guerrero-Ginel and D.C. Pérez-Marín
8. Development of a graphical user interface (GUI) for on-line NIRS analysis of feed ingredients at the reception level in a feed mill plant. F. J. Sevilla-Pérez, A. Garrido-Varo, D. Pérez-Marín,  J.E Guerrero and A.Gómez-Cabrera
9. Using of LOCAL calibration for predicting feed value of fresh forages from faeces samples. D. Andueza, F. Picard, J.M. Ballet, M. Jestin and R. Baumont 
10. Non-destructive non touch Visible-NIR transmittance Spectroscopy for identification of Fresh and Frozen-thawed Fish. L. Fasolato, S. Balzan, K. Valentini, J.C. Ferlito, R. Riovanto, M. Mirisola, E. Cencetti, L. Serva, F. Benozzo, E.M. Teneggi, P. Berzaghi and E. Novelli
11. The potential of mobile VIS/NIR measurements in TOC prediction and organic soils delineation of the peat field in different field conditions. M. Knadel, M. H.Greve and A. Thomsen