Working Groups

 

CIGR Working Groups are appointed by the Executive Board to carry out studies on specific subjects of international importance and interest.

The Working Groups Co-ordinator assists the Chairpersons of the Working Groups in the fulfilment of their task and in providing a liaison with the governing bodies of CIGR.

WORKING GROUPS COORDINATOR:

 

Professor Da-Wen Sun, Food Refrigeration & Computerised Food Technology;National University of Ireland, Dublin;(University College Dublin);
Agriculture & Food Science Centre;Belfield; Dublin 4; Ireland.
Tel: +353 1 7167342;
Fax: +353 1 7167493 / 7167415;
E-mail: dawen.sun@ucd.ie

website: http://www.ucd.ie/refrig/, http://www.ucd.ie/sun/

 

WORKING GROUPS

Earth Observation for Land and Water Engineering Working Group

Chair: Professor Guido D'Urso

Department of Agricultural Engineering and Agronomy, University of Naples "Federico II", Via Università 100, I-80055 Portici, Naples, Italy

E-mail: durso@unina.it

website: http://digilander.libero.it/WG_CIGR_EO/index.htm


Animal Housing in Hot Climate Working Group

Chair: Professor Vasco Fitas da Cruz

Department of Agricultural Engineering, Évora University, Portugal

Tel: 351-266760823
Fax: 351-266760911
Email: vfc@uevora.pt


Secretary: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Hatem

Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Tel: +2-02-5738000
Fax: +2-02-5717355

Email:mhatem15@hotmail.com; ; mhatem15@yahoo.comE-mail: hatem@cu.edu.eg

Secretary: Dr. Panos Panagakis

Laboratory of Farm Structures, Agricultural Engineering Department,

Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, Athens 11855, Greece

Tel: +30 210 529 4024
Fax: +30 210 529 4023
Email: ppap@aua.gr

website: http://www.agr.cu.edu.eg/cigr/

Minutes of the meeting on 2 September 2008 in Iguassu Falls City, Brazil

Rural Development and the Preservation of Cultural Heritages Working Group

Chair: Professor Dr. Kamil Okyay Sindir

Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Machinery, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

Tel: +90 232 3884000 / 1502 / Mobile: +90 532 3631287
Fax: +90 232 3427642
Email: kamil.sindir@ege.edu.tr


Secretary: Professor Dr. Milan Martinov

Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia      

Email: mmartog@uns.ns.ac.yu

Cattle Housing Working Group

Chair: Professor Dr. Josi FLABA

Ingénieur-Directeur, Direction générale de l'Agriculture, Direction du Développement et de la Vulgarisation, Chaussée de Louvain 14, PL 4, B 5000 Namur, Belgium

Tel: + 32 (0)81 649622
Fax:+32 (0)81649555

E-mail: joseph.flaba@spw.wallonie.be

Water Management & Information Systems Working Group

Chair: Dr. Antonio Brasa Ramos

Department of Producción Vegetal y Tecnología Agraria, E.T.S. de Ingenieros, Agrónomos, Campus Universitario, 02071-Albacete, Spain

Tel: +34 967 599 200
Fax: +34 967 599 238
Email: Antonio.Brasa@uclm.es

Agricultural Engineering University Curricula Harmonization Working Group

Chair: Professor Ing. Pierluigi Febo

Universita di Palermo, Dip. Economia, Ingegneria e Technologie Agrarie, Viale delle Scienze 13, IT-90128 Palermo, Italy.

Fax: +39 091 484 035
Email: pierfebo@unipa.it

Vice Chair: Prof. Ing. Giacomo Scarascia-Mugnozza

Dipartimento PROGESA, Università di Bari via Amendola 165/a, 70126 Bari, Italy

Tel: +39 080 5442966
Fax: +39 080 5442977
Email: scarasci@agr.uniba.it

Secretary: Dr. Antonio Comparetti

Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Tecnologie Agro-Forestali (I.T.A.F.), Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, 90128 Palermo, Italy

Tel: +39 091 7028173 / Mobile: +39 328 6221761
Fax: +39 091 484035
E-mail: comparetti@unipa.it

Rural Landscape Protection and Valorisation Working Group

Chair: Dr. Ken Ohno
Bioresources, Mie University,
1577 Kurima-Machiya, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
Tel:
Fax:
E-mail: oono@bio.mie-u.ac.jp

Mission statement

Landscape is about the relationship between people and place. Human impact on the place has changed the landscape. In the past, the rural landscape has been mostly influenced by farmers and landowners. Now, the landscape has more urban influences. The rural cultural landscape which is a product of environmental conditions and land use is vanishing. Rural landscape protection and valorization are needed. The Rural landscape protection and valorization should integrate natural conservation, farmland retention, historic preservation and so on. The Rural landscape protection and valorization should be linked to the social and economic needs. The Rural landscape protection and valorization should be sustainable. The mission of this working group is having the intensive discussion on the question how research might support rural landscape protection and valorization. The common understanding that can be shared and generalize the issue of the development of future rural landscapes is expected.

  Ken OHNO
Chair of Working Group

Image Analysis for Agricultural Processes and Products Working Group

Chair: Prof. Enrique Molto
IVIA (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias), Ctra.
Moncada-Naquera km 5, 46113 Moncada (Valencia), Spain
Tel: +34 963 424 051/000
Fax: +34 963 424 001
E-mail:molto@ivia.es

Vice Chair: Prof. Thomas Banhazi
SARDI -PPPI, The University of Adelaide, Roseworthy Campus, Roseworth SA 5371, Australia.
T.: +61 8 8303 7781
F.: +61 8 8303 7975
E-mail: banhazi.thomas@saugov.sa.gov.au

Vice Chair: Dr. Manuela Zude
Max-Eyth-Allee 100, 14469 Potsdam-Bornim, Germany
Tel: +49 331 5699 616
Fax: +49 331 5699 849
E-mail: zude@atb-potsdam.de


Website: http://www.atb-potsdam.de/CIGR-ImageAnalysis


Objectives

Scope

Tasks

A) Monitoring

B) Process management

Expected outcomes