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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment, HAICTA 2017, held in Chania, Crete, Greece, in September 2017.

The 14 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully selected from the 55 accepted full papers out of 124 submissions. The selected papers span across various subjects, from ICT innovations and smart farming, to decision support systems, as well as precision farming, disease diagnosis using mobile devices, IoT for monitoring and controlling animal production, sensor-based solutions, GIS-based water management, environmental planning, information systems for monitoring of fish stocks and fisheries, information management in the agri-food sector, and forestry planning and management.

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ICT Innovations and Smart Farming.- Methods and Tools for Supporting the Integration of Stocks and Fisheries.- Semiotic-Sociological Textures of Landscape Values. Assessments in Urban-Coastal Areas.- A systematic review on Collective Awareness Platforms.- Using geostatistics and spatial multicriteria analysis to map forest species biogeophysical suitability: a study case for the Centro region of Portugal.- CAP 2020 regionalization design: A Decision Support System.- Strategic Decision Making and Information Management in the Agrifood Sector.- Water data sharing in Italy with SIGRIAN WebGIS platform.- Towards the commercialization of a lab-on-a-chip device for soil nutrient measurement.- SheepIT, an IoT-based weed control system.- Techniques for Plant Disease Diagnosis Evaluated on a Windows Phone Platform.- Correlation between Different Remote Sensing Data in Relative Biomass Determination and Comparison of Generated Precision Fertilization Tasks for Cereal Crops.- Unmanned Ground Vehicles in Precision Farming Services: An Integrated Emulation Modelling Approach.- Precision Poultry Farming: Software Architecture Framework and Online Zootechnical Diary for Monitoring and Collaborating on Hens´ Health.

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