Ido Seginer,
Emeritus
Professor
B.Sc. 1957
(Technion); M.Sc. 1959 (Technion); Ph.D. 1961 (Cornell).
Joined the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Technion in 1964. Initial
interests in erosion and irrigation engineering changed later to applied
micro-meteorology. Main topics of research were: water distribution from
sprinklers, flow around windbreaks and within crop canopies, energy and mass
balance of greenhouses, modeling greenhouses and crops, optimal control of the
greenhouse environment.
Current research projects
Transpirational cooling of greenhouse crops. Modelling the nitrate level in
lettuce. Optimal environmental control for greenhouse crops. Solar drying of
waste-water sludge. Modelling fish pond systems. Optimal greenhouse lighting.
Selected publications
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Seginer I., Nir D., von Bernuth R.D. 1991.
Simulation of wind distorted sprinkler patterns. J. Irrig. Drain. Eng.
117(2):285-306.
- Seginer I. 1994. Transpirational cooling of a greenhouse crop with partial
ground cover. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 71:265-281.
- Seginer I., Gary Ch., Tchamitchian M. 1994. Optimal temperature regimes for
agreenhouse crop with a carbohydrate pool. A modeling study. Scientia
Horticulturae 60:55-80.
- Ioslovich I., Seginer I., Gutman P-O., Borshchevsky M. 1995. Sub-optimal CO2
enrichment of greenhouses. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research
60:117-136.
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Seginer I., Hwang Y., Boulard T., Jones J. 1996. Mimicking an expert greenhouse
grower with a neural network policy. Trans. ASAE 39(1):299-306.
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Seginer I. 1998. Alternative design formulae for the ventilation rate of
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greenhouses. Joural of Agricultural Engineering Research, 68:355-365.
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Seginer I., Ioslovich I. 1998. Seasonal optimization of the greenhouse
environment for a simple two-stage crop growth model. Journal of Agricultural
Engineering Research 70:145-155.
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Tarnopolsky M., Seginer I. 1999 Leaf temperature error from heat conduction
along thermocouple wires. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 93(3):185-194.
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Seginer I., Ioslovich I. 1999. Optimal spacing and cultivation for an
industrialized crop production system. Agricultural Systems 62:143-157.
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Linker R., Gutman P.O., Seginer I. 2000. Robust model-based failure detection
and identification in greenhouses. Computers and Electronics in
Agriculture26(3):255-270.
- Linker R, Gutman PO, Seginer I. 2002.
Observer-based robust failure detection and isolation in greenhouses. Control
Engineering Practice 10:519-531.
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Seginer I. 2002. The Penman-Monteith evapotranspiration equation as an element
in greenhouse ventilation design. Biosystems Engineering 82(4):423-439.
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Ioslovich I, Seginer I. 2002. Acceptable nitrate concentration of greenhouse
lettuce: two optimal control policies. Biosystems Engineering 83(2):199-215.
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Ioslovich I, Seginer I, Baskin A. 2002. Fitting the Nicolet lettuce growth model
to plant-spacing experimental data. Biosystems Engineering 83(3):361-371.
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Linker R, Seginer I. 2003. Water Stress Detection in a Greenhouse by a Step
Change of Ventilation. Biosystems Engineering 84(1): 79–89.
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Seginer I. 2003. A dynamic model for nitrogen-stressed lettuce. Annals of Botany
91:623-635.
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Broadley MR, Seginer I, Burns A, Escobar-Gutiérrez AJ, Burns IG, White PJ. 2003.
The nitrogen and nitrate economy of butterhead lettuce (lactuca sativa var.
capitata L.). Journal of Experimental Botany 54:2081-2090.
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Seginer I. 2004. Equilibrium and balanced growth of a vegetative crop. Annals of
Botany 93:127-139.
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Linker R, Seginer I. 2004. Greenhouse temperature modeling: A comparison between
sigmoid neural networks and hybrid models. Mathematics and Computers in
Simulation 65:19-29.
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Seginer I, Bleyaert P, Breugelmans M. 2004. Modelling ontogenetic changes of
nitrogen and water content in lettuce. Annals of Botany 94: 393–404, 2004.
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Seginer I. 2004. Plant spacing effect on the nitrogen content of a crop.
European Journal of Agronomy 21:369–377.
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Linker R, Seginer I, Buwalda F. 2005. Description and calibration of a dynamic
model for lettuce grown in a nitrate-limiting environment. Mathematical and
Computer Modelling 40(9/10): 1009-1024.
E-mail: segineri@tx.technion.ac.il
Phone: 972-(0)4-829-2874 (office), 972-(0)4-825-2203(home)
Fax : 972-(0)4-822-5696