6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food and Environment (HAICTA 2013) Procedia Technology Volume 8

Corfu, Greece 19-22 September 2013

Editor: M. Salampasis

ISBN: 978-1-63266-344-3

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Information and Communication Technology in Agricultural Development Preface ..................................................... 1 Michail Salampasis, Alexandros Theodoridis

Satellite Based Technologies as Key Enablers for Sustainable ICT-Based Agricultural Production Systems ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Dionysis Bochtis

e-Government Research and Services at an Era of Economic Crisis ................................................................................ 9 Alexander B. Sideridis

Capacitive Sensor Readout Circuit for Organic Substance Analysis .............................................................................. 13 N. Petrellis, C. Spathis, K. Georgakopoulou, A. Birbas

Cytotoxic and Genotoxic Potency Screening of Two Pesticides on Allium cepa L ......................................................... 19 Anila Mesi (Dizdari), Ditika Kopliku

Greek and European Legal Framework Environmental and Ecological Laws: An Interactive Application ........................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Dimosthenis Mpoutakidis, Konstantinos Soutsas

Lessons Learned from the Implementation of VDTT and EMDS for the Management Planning of the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest (WA, USA) .......................................................................................................... 37 Chiara Torresan, Sean N. Gordon, Keith M. Reynolds

The Main Triggers of the Balance of Payment Crisis in the Eastern Europe................................................................. 47 Oleksandr Chernyak, Vasyl Khomiak, Yevgen Chernyak

The Use of Future Internet Technologies in the Agriculture and Food Sectors: Integrating the Supply Chain..................................................................................................................................................................................... 51 Alexandros Kaloxylos, J. Wolfert, Tim Verwaart, Carlos Maestre Terol, Christopher Brewster, Robbert Robbemond, Harald Sundmaker

Drivers of Precision Agriculture Technologies Adoption: A Literature Review ............................................................ 61 Emanuele Pierpaoli, Giacomo Carli, Erika Pignatti, Maurizio Canavari

Development of a GIS Application for Urban Forestry Management Planning ............................................................ 70 Evangelos Tasoulas, Gregory Varras, Ioanninis Tsirogiannis, Christos Myriounis

OBA and BORM Approach in the Organizational Modeling and Simulation of Local Government Processes and Country Planning ........................................................................................................................................ 81 Iveta Merunková, Vojtech Merunka

Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Fisheries Products.......................................................................................................... 90 Eleni Kaimakoudi, Konstantinos Polymeros, Maria-Georgia Schinaraki, Christos Batzios

Assessment of ICT Adoption Stage for Promoting the Greek National Parks ............................................................... 97 Christiana Koliouska, Zacharoula Andreopoulou

“Corporate System” and Green Economy in Campania Region: A Collaborative Platform for the Excellences.......................................................................................................................................................................... 104 R. Misso, G.P. Cesaretti, N. Marinelli, I. Viola, I.P. Borrelli

Company Characteristics and Human Resource Disclosure in Greece......................................................................... 112 Athanasios Vazakidis, Antonios Stavropoulos, Despina Galani

Assessment of the Relationship Between Forest Habitats of Mushrooms and Geology in Grevena, Greece Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ................................................................................................... 122 Stefanos Tsiaras, Christos Domakinis

The Chaotic Price Growth Model of the Agricultural Monopoly and New Information and Communication Technology ............................................................................................................................................. 130 Vesna D. Jablanovic

Use of Swot and Analytic Hierarchy Process Integration as a Participatory Decision Making Tool in Watershed Management ................................................................................................................................................... 134 Fadim Yavuz, Tüzin Baycan

Assessment of Forest Opening Up with Multi-Criteria Analysis ................................................................................... 144 Vasileios C. Drosos, Angelos-Sarantis G. Liampas, Vasileios Giannoulas

Precision Agriculture Applications in a High Density Olive Grove Adapted for Mechanical Harvesting in Greece ......................................................................................................................................................... 152 Athanasios Gertsis, Dimitrios Fountas, Ionel Arpasanu, Masianos Michaloudis

An Analysis of Waste and Information Flows in an ICT Waste Management System................................................ 157 Maria-Chrysovalantou Emmanouil, Emmanouil Stiakakis, Maria Vlachopoulou, Vasiliki Manthou

Application of Mobile Technologies Through an Integrated Management System for Agricultural Production .......................................................................................................................................................................... 165 Aglaia Liopa-Tsakalidi, Dimitrios Tsolis, Pantelis Barouchas, Athanasia-Eleftheria Chantzi, Athanasios Koulopoulos, Nikolaos Malamos

Environmental Education: Issue Water: Different Approaches in Secondary General and Technical Lyceum in a Social and Environmental Stressed Area in Greece.................................................................................. 171 Hristina Papavasileiou, Anastasios Mavrakis

Autonomous Vehicle for Saffron Harvesting .................................................................................................................. 175 Nikolaos Asimopoulos, Constantinos Parisses, Apollon Smyrnaios, Nikolaos Germanidis

Automating Online Reef Report Cards – Linking Land Management Practices to Water Quality and Coral Reef Ecosystem Health ........................................................................................................................................... 183 Jane Hunter, Andre Gebers, Tim Dettrick

Photovoltaic Power Plants as a Source of Electromagnetic Interference to Metallic Agricultural Pipelines.............................................................................................................................................................................. 192 Georgios C. Christoforidis, Theofilos A. Papadopoulos, Constantinos Parisses, Georgios E. Mantzaras

Evaluation of Social Media Actions for the Agrifood System ........................................................................................ 200 Luisa Sturiale, Alessandro Scuderi

Bioreactor Internet System for Experimental Data Monitoring and Measurement .................................................... 209 Damian Janczak, Michal Marciniak, Andrzej Lewicki, Wojciech Czekala, Kamil Witaszek, Pablo César Rodríguez Carmona, Marta Cieslik, Jacek Dach

Environmental Education Centers and Local Communities: A Case Study................................................................. 215 Electra Pitoska, Themistokles Lazarides

Monitoring of Wild Animal Species in the Czech Republic ........................................................................................... 222 Michal Stoces, Jan Jarolímek, Jan Masner, Miloš Ježek, Jirí Vanek, Martina Konecná

Automatic Identification of Gasoline – Biofuel Blend Type in an Internal Combustion Four-Stroke Engine Based on Unsupervised Novelty Detection and Active Learning ...................................................................... 229 Xanthoula Eirini Pantazi, Dimitrios Moshou, Dimitrios Kateris, Ioannis Gravalos, Panagiotis Xyradakis

Determinants of User Adoption of e-Government Services in Greece and the Role of Citizen Service Centres................................................................................................................................................................................ 238 Anastasia Voutinioti

Mapping Burnt Forest Areas and Monitoring Their Regeneration Using MERIS Images......................................... 245 Dimitrios Galionis, Eleni Charou, Marianthi Stefouli, Katerina Kabassi, Aristotelis Martinis

Turkey's Animal Production Water Footprint; Heading in the Wrong Direction....................................................... 255 Sezen Ocak, Sinan Ögün, Ebru Emsen

A Framework for Opinion Mining in Blogs for Agriculture.......................................................................................... 264 Stavros Valsamidis, Theodosios Theodosiou, Ioannis Kazanidis, Michael Nikolaidis

WooDB: A DBMS Approach as a Marketing Tool for Wood Entrepreneurship......................................................... 275 Ioakeim Tzoulis, Zaharoula Andreopoulou, Christiana Koliouska, George Tsekouropoulos, Vagis Samathrakis

Robustness-Oriented Group Decision Support. A Case from Ecology Economics ...................................................... 285 Pavlos Delias, Paschalia Manitsa, Evangelos Grigoroudis, Nikolaos Matsatsinis, Anastasios Karasavvoglou

A Web Information System Application on Forest Legislation: The Case of Greek Forest Principles...................... 292 Antonios Athanasiadis, Zacharoula Andreopoulou

Alternative Crops – Problems and Prospects: A Comparative Research of Landowners’ Views in the Prefectures of Rodopi and Evros...................................................................................................................................... 300 Georgios Tsantopoulos, Dimitra Tsoulakaki, Stilianos Tampakis, Christos Karelakis, Spyridon Mamalis

Identification of Decision Making for Food Under Economic Crisis: The Case of Greece ......................................... 306 G. Vlontzos, M.N. Duquenne

Sediment Transport in the Koiliaris River of Crete ....................................................................................................... 315 I.A. Sibetheros, S. Nerantzaki, D. Efstathiou, G. Giannakis, N.P. Nikolaidis

Precision Agriculture Application in Fruit Crops: Experience in Handpicked Fruits ................................................ 324 Theofanis Gemtos, S. Fountas, A. Tagarakis, V. Liakos

Oasis: A Greenhouse Sustainability Web Automated Project ....................................................................................... 333 Konstantinos M. Kasiotis, Fotis Andrinopoulos, Voula Kalliakaki, Kyriaki Machera

Reduce the Digital Gap by Increasing E-Skills ............................................................................................................... 340 László Várallyai, Miklós Herdon

Forest Production Management and Harvesting Scheduling Using Dynamic Linear Programming (LP) Models........................................................................................................................................................................ 349 Spyros Galatsidas, Konstantinos Petridis, Garyfallos Arabatzis, Konstantinos Kondos

A Toolbox for Impact Assessment and Sustainability .................................................................................................... 355 Klaus Jacob, Stratos Arampatzis, Basil Manos, Thomas Bournaris

The Effect of the IFRS on Intercompany Transactions. The Case of the Greek Food-Beverage Sector.................... 360 Athanasios Vazakides, Antonios Stauropoulos, Ioannis Samaras, Stergios Athianos

Measuring Users Satisfaction of an e-Government Portal ............................................................................................. 371 Thomas Bournaris, Basil Manos, Christina Moulogianni, Fedra Kiomourtzi, Manuela Tandini

The Environmental Profile of Dairy Farms in Central Macedonia (Greece) ............................................................... 378 Zaphiris Abas, Athanasios Ragkos, Ioannis Mitsopoulos, Alexandros Theodoridis

Aspects of Incorporation of ICT in the Greek Agricultural Enterprises: The Case of a Prefecture .......................... 387 Maria Botsiou, Vassilios Dagdilelis

Introducing Direct Costing and Activity Based Costing in a Farm Management System: A Conceptual Model .................................................................................................................................................................................. 397 Giacomo Carli, Maurizio Canavari

Renewable Energy Sources in Crete: Economic Valuation Results from a Stated Choice Experiment..................... 406 Christos J. Emmanouilides, Theano Sgouromalli

Exploring the Greening of the Food Supply Chain with Lean Thinking Techniques .................................................. 416 Dimitris Folinas, Dimitrios Aidonis, Dimitrios Triantafillou, Giorgos Malindretos

Mobile Internet Users Profile Along with Subscribers Model of Payment and Attitudinal Characteristics ................................................................................................................................................................... 425 Costas Assimakopoulos

Predicting Consumer's Perceptions in On-Line Shopping ............................................................................................. 435 A. Mandilas, A. Karasavvoglou, M. Nikolaidis, L. Tsourgiannis

The Investigation of Woodfuels’ Involvement in Green Energy Supply Schemes at Northern Greece: The Model Case of the Thrace Prefecture ....................................................................................................................... 445 Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos, Miltiadis S. Chalikias

Ontology-Driven Advice and Decision-Making Within Knowledge Dissemination for Extension ............................. 453 Yuriy Chaplinskyy, Olena Subbotina

Participatory Planning and Local Economic Development: A Case Study of Northeast Halkidiki............................ 459 Charitini Kantemeridou, Georgios Tsantopoulos, Stilianos Tampakis, Paraskevi Karanikola

The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies as a Tool to Facilitate Growth in the Manufacturing Sector in Republic of Kosovo ................................................................................................................. 465 Albert Aliu, Arbnor Halili

Relative Humidity and Land Use Changes in an Environmentally Stressed Area (Thriasio Plain – Greece)................................................................................................................................................................................ 471 Anastasios Mavrakis, Hristina Papavasileiou

NDVI and E. de Martonne Indices in an Environmentally Stressed Area (Thriasio Plain – Greece) ........................ 477 Anastasios Mavrakis, Hristina Papavasileiou

Study on Citizens’ Information About Forest Fires: The Case of Kavala .................................................................... 482 Paraskevi Karanikola, Stilianos Tampakis, Garyfallos Arabatzis, Aristidis Maheridis

Crude Protein Content Determination of Potatoes by NIRS Technology..................................................................... 488 Ainara López, Silvia Arazuri, Carmen Jarén, Jesús Mangado, Pedro Arnal, José Ignacio Ruiz de Galarreta, Patrick Riga, Raquel López

Detecting Asset Impairment Management: Some Evidence from Food and Beverage Listed Companies .......................................................................................................................................................................... 493 Ekaterini C. Laskaridou, Athanasios Vazakidis

Measuring the Accuracy of a Pesticide Treatment by an Image Analyzer ................................................................... 498 Jesús Mangado, Silvia Arazuri, Pedro Arnal, Carmen Jarén, Ainara López

Productivity and Efficiency in the Agri-Food Production Industry: The Case of Fisheries in Greece....................... 503 Fotini Voulgaris, Christos Lemonakis

eEnviPer: Environmental Permits Over the Cloud ........................................................................................................ 508 Grigoris Chatzikostas, Ioannis Boskidis, Panagiotis Symeonidis, Stavros Tekes, Pantelis Pekakis, Alkiviadis Bais, Vasiliki Moumtzi

Regional ‘Clubs’ in Agriculture: Empirical Evidence.................................................................................................... 512 Stilianos Alexiadis, Nikolaos Hasanagas, Christos Ap. Ladias

Enorasis .............................................................................................................................................................................. 516 Grigoris Chatzikostas, Ioannis Boskidis, Panagiotis Symeonidis, Stavros Tekes, Pantelis Pekakis

Development of a Wireless Erosion Measuring Network ............................................................................................... 520 Konstantinos Ioannou, Panagiotis Lefakis, George N. Zaimes, Dimitrios Emmanouloudis

WebGIS Design & Implementation for Pest Life-Cycle & Control Simulation Management: The Case of Olive-Fruit Fly ............................................................................................................................................................... 526 Ioannis Karydis, Panagiotis Gratsanis, Christos Semertzidis, Markos Avlonitis

Desertification Through Rural People Participation (Experience of International Project of Carbon Sequestration in South Khorasan Province – East of Iran) ........................................................................................... 530 Farhood Golmohammadi

Land Abandonment Changes Between 2005 and 2008 in Bucharest City .................................................................... 536 Simona R. Gradinaru, Cristian I. Ioja, Ileana Patru-Stupariu, Mihai R. Nita, Athanasios A. Gavrilidis, Elfrida M. Cârstea

Municipality Waste Management Study Case Study: Alimos, Greece.......................................................................... 540 Thomas Hatzichristos, Constantina Marseli, Yiota Spastra

Information System for Small Pig Farm.......................................................................................................................... 544 Tihomir Zoranovic, Nebojša Novkovic

Integral ICT Solutions Supporting Farmers Businesses as Well as Environmental Caretaking Incl. Carbon Optimization......................................................................................................................................................... 550 Walter H. Mayer

Exploring Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Wood Products That Could be Derived from Transgenic Plantations in Greece......................................................................................................................................................... 554 Lambros Tsourgiannis, Vasiliki Kazana, Anastasios Karasavvoglou, Michael Nikolaidis, Giannoula Florou, Persefoni Polychronidou

Ecological Farming – Possibilities of Presentation by Means of Map Portal................................................................ 561 Jirí Vanek, Pavel Šimek, Michal Stoces, Jan Jarolímek, Vladimír Ocenášek, Ivana Brožová

Landscape Diversity Indexes Application for Agricultural Land Use Optimization ................................................... 566 Tetyana Kuchma, Oleksandr Tarariko, Oleksandr Syrotenko

Using of GIS Tools for Analysis of Organic Waste Management in Slovenia Region Pomurje.................................. 570 Miran Lakota, Denis Stajnko

Design and Development of Innovative Packaging for Agricultural Products ............................................................. 575 Athanasios Babalis, Ioannis Ntintakis, Dimitrios Chaidas, Athanasios Makris

Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Olive Fruit Fly Outbreaks............................................................................... 580 Spyros Voulgaris, Michalis Stefanidakis, Andreas Floros, Markos Avlonitis

FarmManager: An Android Application for the Management of Small Farms........................................................... 587 Theodoros Lantzos, George Koykoyris, Michail Salampasis

A Neural Network Model for Classifying Olive Farms .................................................................................................. 593 Crescenzio Gallo, Francesco Contò, Piermichele La Sala, Anna Paola Antonazzo

Cloud Approach for Short Chain Administration .......................................................................................................... 600 Francesco Contò, Nicola Faccilongo, Piermichela La Sala, Raffaele Dicecc

Emerging Traceability Technologies as a Tool for Quality Wood Trade ..................................................................... 606 Ioakeim Tzoulis, Zaharoula Andreopoulou

Methods of Automated Model Transformations in Information System Analysis....................................................... 612 Jakub Tuma

Influence of Added Co Substrates, Technical and Technological Factors on the Fermentation Process of Municipal Wastewater Sludge...................................................................................................................................... 618 Pablo César Rodríguez Carmona, Tomasz Piechota, Robert Mazur

The Experimental Macro Photoreactor for Microalgae Production ............................................................................. 622 Andrzej Lewicki, Jacek Dach, Damian Janczak, Wojciech Czekala

E-Government and Forest Service: The Case of the University Forest of Taxiarchis ................................................. 628 Sofia Chrysopoulou, Panagiotis Lefakis, Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Basil Manos

Building an Innovative Software Application for Modeling Inland Water Ecosystem Management......................... 636 Konstandinos Panitsidis, Panagiotis Lefakis, Zacharoula Andreopoulou, Antonios Kokkinakis Author Index