BUAN

Dr Kenneth Obrien Mpho Mapoka

Lecturer

Faculty of Agriculture
Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering(ABE)

P/Bag 0027, Gaborone Botswana
3650171
kmapoka@buan.ac.bw

PhD topic: Non-destructive measurement system to determine corn seed planting depth using ground penetrating radar for precision agriculture

Degrees

PhD in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University (2018), USA.
MEng in Mechatronics, University of Sheffield (2012), UK.

Professional Societies

Member of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

Agricultural Engineering
Precision farming
Mechatronics

Primary Research Areas

Precision Agriculture, sensing and controls applicable in advanced machinery control.

Potential Research topics

Engineering and applications of soil and crop sensors; precision agriculture
Sensing below the roots: Low-cost networked soil moisture sensors to dynamically map the fluxes in moisture across field
Advanced machinery

Publications

· Mapoka, K. O., Birrell, S. J., & Eisenmann, D. J. (2020). Manual and ground penetrating radar field measurements of field-corn spacing, planting depth, and furrow feature identification. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 180, 104125.

· Mapoka, K. O., Birrell, S. J., Tekeste, M. Z., Steward, B., & Eisenmann, D. (2019). Using gprMax to Model Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) to Locate Corn Seed as an Attempt to Measure Planting Depth. Transactions of the ASABE, 62(3), 673-686.

· Mapoka, K. O., Birrell, S. J., Eisenmann, D. J., Tekeste, M. Z., & Wu, H. (2019, November). Experimental Approach to Quantifying Synthetic Corn Seed Measurement error Using a Ground Penetrating Radar. In 2019 International Multidisciplinary Information Technology and Engineering Conference (IMITEC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

· Mapoka, K. O., Birrell, S. J., & Eisenmann, D. J. (2018). Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar in measuring Corn seeds (CS) Spacing and Planting depth in different soils. In 2018 ASABE Annual International Meeting(p. 1). American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.

· Souza, A. C., Mousaviraad, M., Mapoka, K. O., & Rosentrater, K. A. (2018). Kinetic modelling of corn fermentation with S. cerevisiae using a variable temperature strategy. Bioengineering, 5(2), 34.

· Mapoka, K. O., Zuva, K., & Zuva, T. (2013). Modelling a Nonlinear Conveyor Belt System Integrated on a Closed Loop Channel. International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology, 3(1), 246-250.

· Mapok, K., Zuva, T., Masebu, H., & Zuva, K. (2013). Performance comparison of two controllers on a nonlinear system. International Journal of Chaos, Control, Modelling and Simulation (IJCCMS), 2(3), 17-30.

Zuva, K., Zuva, T., & Mapoka, K. O. M. (2013, January). Open Cloud Computing with Fault Tolerance. In Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (No. 78, p. 606). World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET).