Peer‑reviewed journal articles and conference papers on machine learning for agriculture, remote sensing, and crop disease detection. Full profile on Google Scholar and ORCID.

Journal Articles

2026
Novara, V., Marchese, M., Anwar, S., Toffanin, C., & Gallo, A. “An exploratory feasibility machine learning study to assess fermentative quality in silage.”
Animal Feed Science and Technology, article 116990.
2025
Marchese, G., Herranz‑Luque, J. E., Anwar, S., Vaglia, V., Toffanin, C., et al. “Soil Management and Machine Learning Abandonment Detection in Mediterranean Olive Groves Under Drought: A Case Study from Central Spain.”
Soil Systems, 9(4), 118.
2023
Anwar, S., Soomro, S. R., Baloch, S. K., Patoli, A. A., & Kolachi, A. R. “Performance Analysis of Deep Transfer Learning Models for the Automated Detection of Cotton Plant Diseases.”
Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, 13(5), 11561–11567.
2023
Kolachi, A. R., Soomro, S. R., Baloch, S. K., Patoli, A. A., & Anwar, S. “Cotton leaf disease classification using YOLO deep learning framework and indigenous dataset.”
International Journal of Systematic Innovation, 7(7), 80–88. DOI

Conference Papers

2025
Anwar, S., Marchese, G., Toffanin, C., & Vaglia, V. “Vineyard condition detection method using Google Earth Images and the YOLOv8 model in Northern Italy.”
EGU General Assembly 2025, EGU25‑981, Vienna, Austria.
2022
Anwar, S., Kolachi, A. R., Baloch, S. K., & Soomro, S. R. “Bacterial Blight and Cotton Leaf Curl Virus Detection Using Inception V4 Based CNN Model for Cotton Crops.”
IEEE 5th International Conference on Image Processing Applications and Systems (IPAS).

Preprints

2025
Marchese, G., Anwar, S., Toffanin, C., & Vaglia, V. “Vineyard condition detection method using Google Earth Images and the YOLOv8 model in Northern Italy.”
Extended journal version. Available at SSRN 5700565.
PhD Activities

Presentations, Schools & Seminars

July 2025

Comparative Analysis of YOLO Models for Vineyard Abandonment Detection in Oltrepò Pavese

5th TERRAENVISION Conference, Granada, Spain.

June–July 2025

10th SPLIT Remote Sensing Professional Summer School

Split, Croatia.

April 2025

Vineyard Condition Detection Using Google Earth Images & YOLOv8 (Poster)

EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria.

November 2024

Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Predicting Macro and Micro Nutrient Content in Raw Milk Using Near‑Infrared Spectroscopy Data (Seminar Delivered)

University of Pavia.