Luís Conceição
Department School of Biosciences of Elvas
VALORIZA – Research Center for the Valorization of Endogenous Resources
Portalegre Polytechnic University
Relevant links outside academia
- Coordinator of InovTechAgro – the National Competence Centre for Digitalisation in Agriculture.
- National representative of EurAgEng – the European Society of Agricultural Engineers.
- Visiting lecturer at the University of Basilicata and at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in precision agriculture.
Expertise
- Precision agriculture, smart farming and digitalisation of agricultural systems.
- Agricultural mechanisation and biosystems engineering, including machinery performance, ISOBUS technologies and GPS-guided operations.
- Conservation agriculture, direct seeding and efficient resource use in Mediterranean farming systems.
- Remote sensing, vegetation indices and proximal sensing for crop monitoring, forage management and spatial variability assessment.
- Sustainable forage production, pasture monitoring and technology transfer for farmers and agri-food stakeholders.
Relevant projects
- MechSmart Forages – demonstration project on precision agriculture technologies for forage production in conservation agriculture systems; winner of the Vida Rural ‘I&D que Marca’ award and nominee for the AgroSantander awards in the sustainability category.
- ISOmap Forragem – externally funded project focused on technology transfer in precision agriculture and machinery for forage production.
- InovTechAgro projects in digital agriculture and innovation, including XRAqua, GEEBovMit, DigiFarm2all, USAM SuLei, HubRAM, INOVCIRCOLIVE, Pegada 4.0 and SFT-EDIH.