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Present	Assistant Professor, Utah State University
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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Articles (22)

Hyperspectral Imaging with Chemometrics for Non-Destructive Determination of Cannabinoids in ...

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2022)

Yuzhen Lu, Xu Li, Sierra N. Young, Xin Li, et al.

With the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) has become a legal and economically promising ...

The Effect of Transplant Date and Plant Spacing on Biomass ...

Agronomy (2022)

Eric R. Linder, Sierra N. Young, Xu Li, Shannon Henriquez Inoa, et al.

Floral hemp cultivated for the extraction of cannabinoids is a new crop in the United States, and agronomic recommendations are ...

Performance Evaluation of Deep Transfer Learning on Multi-Class Identification of ...

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2022)

Dong Chen, Yuzhen Lu, Zhaojian Li and Sierra N. Young

Precision weed management offers a promising solution for sustainable cropping systems through the use of chemical-reduced/non-chemical robotic weeding techniques, which ...

Hyperspectral Imaging With Machine Learning to Differentiate Cultivars, Growth Stages ...

Frontiers in Plant Science (2022)

Yuzhen Lu, Sierra N. Young, Eric Linder, Brian Whipker, et al.

As an emerging cash crop, industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) grown for cannabidiol (CBD) has spurred a surge of interest ...

Robust Plant Segmentation of Color Images Based on Image Contrast ...

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2022)

Yuzhen Lu, Sierra N. Young, Haifeng Wang and Nuwan Wijewardane

Plant segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision applications for identification/classification and quantification of plant phenotypic features. Robust segmentation ...

Detection of Crop Diseases Using Enhanced Variability Imagery Data and ...

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2022)

Shai Kendler, Ran Aharoni, Sierra N. Young, Hanan Sela, et al.

The timely detection of crop diseases is critical for securing crop productivity, lowering production costs, and minimizing agrochemical use. This ...

Ten simple rules for researchers who want to develop web ...

PLOS Computational Biology (2022)

Sheila M. Saia, Natalie G. Nelson, Sierra N. Young, Stanton Parham, et al.

Web applications, also known as web apps, are increasingly common in the research communication portfolios of those working in the ...

Hyperspectral Imaging with Cost-Sensitive Learning for High-Throughput Screening of Loblolly ...

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Journal (2021)

Yuzhen Lu, Kitt G. Payn, Piyush Pandey, Juan J. Acosta, et al.

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is a commercially important timber species planted across a wide temperature gradient in the southeastern ...

Hyperspectral Imaging Combined with Machine Learning for the Detection of ...

Remote Sensing (2021)

Piyush Pandey, Kitt G. Payn, Yuzhen Lu, Austin J. Heine, et al.

Loblolly pine is an economically important timber species in the United States, with almost 1 billion seedlings produced annually. The ...

Review: Closing Nutrient Cycles for Animal Production – Current and Future ...

Animal The international journal of animal biosciences (2021)

S. L. Kronberg, F. D. Provenza, S. van Vliet and Sierra N. Young

We face an urgent and complex challenge to produce large amounts of healthful animal and plant foods for an estimated ...

Opportunities for Robotic Systems and Automation in Cotton Production

AgriEngineering (2021)

Edward Barnes, Gaylon Morgan, Kater Hake, Jon Devine, et al.

Automation continues to play a greater role in agricultural production with commercial systems now available for machine vision identification of ...

The Effects of Interface Views on Performing Aerial Telemanipulation Tasks ...

International journal of Social Robotics (2021)

Sierra N. Young, Ryan J. Lanciloti and Joshua M. Peschel

This paper presents a human-robot interaction (HRI) study of a dedicated Mission Specialist interface for performing telemanipulation tasks using a ...

Prediction of Freeze Damage and Minimum Winter Temperature of the ...

Forest Science (2021)

Yuzhen Lu, Trevor D Walker, Juan J. Acosta, Sierra N. Young, et al.

The most important climatic variable influencing growth and survival of loblolly pine is the yearly average minimum winter temperature (MWT) ...

Frontier: Autonomy in Detection, Actuation, and Planning for Robotic Weeding ...

Transactions of the ASABE (2021)

Piyush Pandey, Hemanth Narayan Dakshinamurthy and Sierra N. Young

Weeds are a persistent and significant problem in agricultural production. Weeds, which tend to grow and produce very rapidly, compete ...

A Survey of Public Datasets for Computer Vision Tasks in ...

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2020)

Yuzhen Lu and Sierra N. Young

Computer vision technologies have attracted significant interest in precision agriculture in recent years. At the core of robotics and artificial ...

Spectral Light-Reflection Data Dimensionality Reduction for Timely Detection of Yellow ...

Precision Agriculture (2020)

Ran Aharoni, Valentyna Klymiuk, Benny Sarusi, Sierra N. Young, et al.

Yellow rust (YR) wheat disease is one of the major threats to worldwide wheat production, and it often spreads rapidly ...

Review of Human–Machine Interfaces for Small Unmanned Systems With ...

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2020)

Sierra N. Young and Joshua M. Peschel

This article reviews the human-machine interaction (HMI) technologies used for telemanipulation by small unmanned systems (SUS) with remote manipulators. SUS, ...

A Process-Based Approach to Attribution of Historical Streamflow Decline in ...

Hydrological Processes (2020)

Gopal Penny, Veena Srinivasan, R. Apoorva, Kirubaharan Jeremiah, et al.

Human activities have resulted in rapid hydrological change around the world, in many cases producing shifts in the dominant hydrological ...

A Framework for Evaluating Field-Based, High-Throughput Phenotyping Systems: A Meta-Analysis

Sierra N. Young

This paper presents a framework for the evaluation of system complexity and utility and the identification of bottlenecks in the ...

Design and Field Evaluation of a Ground Robot for High-Throughput ...

Precision Agriculture (2018)

Sierra N. Young, Erkan Kayacan and Joshua M. Peschel

This article describes the design and field evaluation of a low-cost, high-throughput phenotyping robot for energy sorghum for use in ...

High-Precision Control of Tracked Field Robots in the Presence of ...

Journal of Field Robotics (2018)

Erkan Kayacan, Sierra N. Young, Joshua M. Peschel and Girish Chowdhary

Accurate steering through crop rows that avoids crop damage is one of the most important tasks for agricultural robots utilized ...

Robot-Assisted Measurement for Hydrologic Understanding in Data Sparse Regions

Sierra N. Young, Joshua M. Peschel, Gopal Penny, Sally Thompson, et al.

This article describes the field application of small, low-cost robots for remote surface data collection and an automated workflow to ...