Pierre La Rocca

Research

Assistant Professor @ Université de Bordeaux

Investigating the environmental cost of mobile network dependencies of digital agriculture technologies.
Currently teaching C programming, algorithm and programming technic and software development (Java, Javascript).
I’m looking for a postdoc

Thesis

PhD @ Université de Bordeaux

Consequential and territorial modelling of the carbon footprint of digital devices and their use of the mobile network for agriculture.

This thesis introduces methods for assessing the environmental impacts of large-scale deployment of digital agricultural equipment and its dependence on infrastructure. The general framework adopts a prospective scenario-based approach and parametric and consequential modelling. A first contribution concerns the estimation of the impacts of digital technologies deployed on farms in a given agricultural context. A second contribution extends the case study dedicated to weeding robots and focuses on the impacts associated with their use of the mobile network. This thesis provides an initial overview of the consequential carbon footprint associated with the deployment of digital equipment on farms and their use of the mobile network.