Faculty profile
Asim Biswas
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Research
Latest papers
Enhancing precision nitrogen management in corn through integration of soil properties and remote sensing: A mechanistic approach.
The Science of the total environment · 2026 · senior author
Computer Vision-Assisted Measurement of Ephemeral Gully Morphology Using a Portable Pin-Artboard Sensor.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026 · senior author
Synergistic climate-human interactions promote grassland restoration over degradation: Evidence from China's major grassland ecosystems.
Journal of environmental management · 2026
Latest funding
- $45,000
Freedom is never free: A convoy to radicalization
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $35,000
Fertile Ground - bringing producers, policy makers, industry, and scientists together to build and test a system to reward farmers for absorbing greenhouse gas emissions
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $1,797,360
Development of Transformative Precision Agriculture Technologies to Ensure Food Security and Mitigate Climate Change: A State-of-the-art Approach to Promote Sustainable Agriculture
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
58 publications.
Enhancing precision nitrogen management in corn through integration of soil properties and remote sensing: A mechanistic approach.
Fathololoumi S, Vasava HB, Chaudhry H, Gobezie TB, Ashiq W, Easher TH, de Jesus Montano Lopez F, Saurette D, Niemeyer C, Daggupati P, Sulik J, Biswas A
Computer Vision-Assisted Measurement of Ephemeral Gully Morphology Using a Portable Pin-Artboard Sensor.
Mann HS, Vasava HB, Mohebzadeh H, Naeimi M, Kadota N, Singh M, Daggupati P, Biswas A
Synergistic climate-human interactions promote grassland restoration over degradation: Evidence from China's major grassland ecosystems.
Zhang J, Ren X, Liu X, Biswas A, Fan Y, Wang X
China's agricultural plastic mulch transition is a food security imperative with global implications.
Liang M, Li S, Liang Y, Song Y, Lu Y, Yu Z, Tang L, Yin X, Khalid N, Biswas A
Spectral Predictability of Soil Organic Matter Depends on Its Humin Fraction Rather than Spectral Fusion.
Zhang Z, Yang M, Biswas A
Bridging the climate research divide: A global imperative for equitable resilience.
Hanif H, Biswas A, Raza S, Li Y
Conservation agriculture enhances ecosystem services and sustainability of the system over conventional agriculture.
Mandal N, Maity PP, Mridha N, Das TK, Bandyopadhyay KK, Pillai SN, Biswas A
Spatiotemporal assessment and background climate drivers of atmospheric urban heat island in Guangdong province, China.
Ahmad AS, Yi L, Biswas A, Chen J
Enhancing soil organic carbon estimation with generative AI and Nix color sensor.
Singh R, De M, Banerjee R, Nayak A, Dasgupta S, Das A, Dey S, Biswas A, Weindorf DC, Chakraborty S
Tariffs imperil US-Canada precision agriculture.
Biswas A
Freedom is never free: A convoy to radicalization
Principal investigators: MacMillan, Michael C.
Keywords: Far-Right extremism; Radicalization; Social movements; Racism; Prejudice; Freedom Convoy; Hate; Violence
Fertile Ground - bringing producers, policy makers, industry, and scientists together to build and test a system to reward farmers for absorbing greenhouse gas emissions
Principal investigators: Fraser, Evan DG
Keywords: agriculture; carbon sequestration; climate change; environmental sustainability; food system; measure, report & value (MRV) system; planetary health; quantitative modelling; soil organic carbon; sustainability
Development of Transformative Precision Agriculture Technologies to Ensure Food Security and Mitigate Climate Change: A State-of-the-art Approach to Promote Sustainable Agriculture
Principal investigators: Farooque, Aitazaz Ahsan AA
Keywords: artificial intelligence; bio-circular economy; climate change mitigation; food security and sustainability; life cycle analysis; machine learning; precision agriculture; profitability mapping; soil health; sustainable water management
Digital Agriculture
Principal investigators: Biswas, Asim
Keywords: Sustainable Soil Management; Digital Agriculture; Digital Soil Mapping; Soil Sensing; Precision Agriculture; Soil Physics; Environmental Management; Spatial data analytics; Agri-food Sustainability; Climate change
The Canadian Soil Data Portal - Transforming Canada's Soil Data Infrastructure to Facilitate GHG Reductions and Climate Change Mitigation
Principal investigators: Heung, Brandon BL
Keywords: applied behaviour analysis; chemometrics; cost-benefit analysis; data mining; data sharing & privacy; digital soil data management; machine learning; pedometrics; predictive digital soil mapping; soil spectroscopy
Hand-held spectroradiometer system for in-situ and ex-situ characterization of soil, plant, and geological materials and ground truthing remote sensing images
Principal investigators: Biswas, Asim
Integrated digital soil sensing and mapping for sustainable soil management
Principal investigators: Biswas, Asim
Keywords: proximal soil sensing; digital soil mapping; sustainable soil management; soil physics and vadose zone hydrology; precision agri-food; sampling design optimization; management zone; algorithms and theories; sensor-based soil characterization; decision support system
In-situ spectroscopic characterization of soil properties for precision agriculture**
Principal investigators: Biswas, Asim
Use of solidified industrial wastes in agriculture
Principal investigators: Biswas, Asim
Towards a Better Understanding of the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Water Continuum
Principal investigators: Madramootoo, Chandra
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Kari Dunfield and Claudia Wagner-Riddle: 5 shared papers
- Prasad Daggupati and Asim Biswas: 4 shared papers
- Viacheslav Adamchuk and Asim Biswas: 2 shared papers
- Adam Gillespie and Asim Biswas: 2 shared papers
- Claudia Wagner-Riddle and Asim Biswas: 2 shared papers
- Viacheslav Adamchuk and Adam Gillespie: 1 shared paper
- Prasad Daggupati and Kari Dunfield: 1 shared paper
- Prasad Daggupati and Claudia Wagner-Riddle: 1 shared paper
- Prasad Daggupati and Angela Bedard-Haughn: 1 shared paper
- Adam Gillespie and Claudia Wagner-Riddle: 1 shared paper
- Kari Dunfield and Asim Biswas: 1 shared paper
- Angela Bedard-Haughn and Asim Biswas: 1 shared paper
- Asim Biswas and Rene Van Acker: 1 shared paper
- Environmental Sciences, School of
- Department of Civil, Environmental, and Water Resources Engineering
- School of Environmental Sciences
- Bioresource Engineering
- Soil Science
- Office of Research - University of Guelph
Co-authors at University of Guelph, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Prasad Daggupati
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Water Resources Engineering
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Viacheslav Adamchuk
Bioresource Engineering
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Adam Gillespie
School of Environmental Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Claudia Wagner-Riddle
Environmental Sciences, School of
2 shared papers, latest 2021
Rene Van Acker
Office of Research - University of Guelph
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Kari Dunfield
Environmental Sciences, School of
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Angela Bedard-Haughn
Soil Science
1 shared papers, latest 2024
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