Commonly encountered acronyms

Here’s a list of acronyms you may see within the AgRA community.  Do you want an acronym added to this list?  Please email.

  • AgRA Agricultural Robotics and Automation (Technical Committee of, this group)
  • ASABE American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
  • CFP Call for Papers
  • CIGR International Commission of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering (original meaning, in French: Commission Internationale du Génie Rural.  The meaning has shifted over time.)
  • CGIAR no longer stands for its original acronym, now “CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers”.
  • CVPR Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • CVPPP Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping
  • ECPA European Conference on Precision Agriculture
  • EFITA European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
  • EurAgEng European Society of Agricultural Engineers
  • FIRA Forum International de la Robotique Agricole (English: International Forum for Agricultural Robotics)
  • ICLR International Conference on Learning Representations
  • ICRA International Conference on Robotics and Automation
  • ICT Information and Communication Technology
  • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • IFAC International Federation of Automatic Control
  • IP Intellectual Property
  • ISHS International Society for Horticultural Science
  • IROS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
  • IPPN International Plant Phenotyping Network
  • RAS Robotics and Automation Society (of IEEE)
  • ROS Robot Operating System
  • RFP Request for Proposals
  • RSJ Robotics Society of Japan
  • RSS Robotics: Science and Systems (an annual conference)
  • SPIE International Society for Optical Engineering
  • TBA to be announced
  • TC technical committee
  • WACV Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
  • WCCA World Congress on Computers in Agriculture

Last update April 5, 2022.