Writing a Review paper

1
Writing a Review paper
By JWAN M. ALDOSKI Geospatial Information
Science Research Center (GISRC), Faculty of
Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400
UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan. Malaysia.
2
Writing a Review paper

• Example
• Title IR Imaging of Plant Diseases
• Go to Google Advance Search and Type IR imaging
  plant disease
• Set File Type to Adobe Acrobat PDF (.pdf)
• Search and select a paper (Let me call it Paper
  X)
• Google

3
First pay attention to the Introduction and
Conclusions

• As per the Introduction prepare a list of other
  references S9
• Note the contribution of each paper you list out
  (as stated by the author of paper X) S10
• Initially it will be very handy to arrange the
  work in a chronological order.
• While going through the paper make an estimation
  whether your title is wide or narrow enough to
  write a review paper with reasonable size S11

4
More Papers

• Now, search for each paper listed in the
  reference of Paper X (now better search for any
  format rather than ONLY PDF)
• For each paper you dig out information and list
  of reference as it was done with Paper X
• If you have scaled down your paper title to a
  reasonable scope, after referring about 20 papers
  you will find that there are not much new papers
  in the references

5
Now you are ready for the real work

• Go to the first paper in the chronological order
• Read the paper carefully and extract the major
  information. This time pay special attention on
  the section Discussion
• Tabulate the important aspects of each paper.
  (The Abstract and Conclusion will help you to
  tabulate the summary)

6
Paper New Theories New Methods Techniques New Equations Any other contribution
R. Laudien et. al (2006)






7
Now will Write the Paper

• First decide what Journal you are aiming to send
  the paper
• By now you have a good idea of the relevant
  Journals as you have gone through many papers
• Go to the Journal site and check the
  Guidance for Authors.
• Eg Journal of Plant Physiology
• Pay attention to the scope, structure, and
  referencing

8
In most cases of journals the order is

• Title S12
• Authors and Affiliation S12
• Key words (optional) S12
• Abstract 150-250 words S13
• Introduction S14
• Methodology, Experimental set up, Results,
  Observations
• Discussion S15
• Conclusions S17
• Acknowledgement S18
• References
• Diagrams, Figures and Tables

9

• Apan, A., Held, A. Phinn, S. and Markley, J.,
  2003 Formulation and Assessment of Narrow-Band
  Vegetation Indices from EO-1 Hyperion Imagery for
  Discriminating Sugarcane Disease, Proceedings of
  the Spatial Sciences Conference, Sep. 22nd-27th,
  2003, Canberra, p. 1-13.
• Büttner, G., Ithurrat, M. E. F., Buddemeyer, J.,
  2002 Späte Rübenfäule Rhizoctonia solani
  Verbreitung, wirtschaftliche Bedeutung und
  integrierte Bekämpfungskonzepte. Zuckerindustrie,
  127, p. 856-866.
• Clevers, J. P. G. W. and Jongschaap, R., 2001
  Imaging spectrometry for Agricultural
  Applications, in Imaging Spectrometry Basic
  Principles and Prospective Applications, F. D.
  van der Meer and S. M. de Jong (Eds.), Kluwer
  Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, p. 157-199.
• Dockter, K., Kühbauch, W., Boochs, F., von
  Rüsten, C., Tempelmann, U. and Kupfer, G., 1988
  Die spektrale Reflexion von Zuckerrübenbeständen
  im sichtbaren und infraroten Wellenlängenbreich
  während des Wachstums, Mitteilungen der
  Gesellschaft für Pflanzenbauwissenschaften, 1,
  55-57.
• S3

10
Contribution

• Laudien et al. 2005a, b c
• Developped GIS based Management Information
  System for Sugar Beet Companies (SuMIS), which
  includes geographical, attribute and remote
  sensing data.
• Rieckmann and Steck, 1995
• Found that Rhizoctonia solani var. betae, a
  fungal disease, rots the beet roots and also
  causes a weathering of the foliage

S3
11
Scope of the title!!!

• IR Imaging
• IR Imaging of Plant Diseases
• IR Imaging of Plant Diseases in Beet Cultivation
• S4

12
MULTITEMPORAL HYPERSPECTRAL DATA ANALYSIS FOR
REGIONAL DETECTION OF PLANT STRESS BY USING AN
AIRBORNE- AND TRACTOR-BASED SPECTROMETER CASE
STUDY SUGAR BEET DISEASE RHIZOCTONIA SOLANI

• R. Laudien a, , G. Bareth b, R. Doluschitz a
• a Dept. of Farm Management (410C), University of
  Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany
• Laudien.agrarinf_at_uni-hohenheim.de
• b Dept. of Geography (GIS RS), University of
  Cologne, 50923 Köln, Germany g.bareth_at_uni-koeln.d
  e
• KEY WORDS Sugar Beet, Hyperspectral Remote
  Sensing, GIS, Vegetation Indices, OSAVI,
  Multitemporal Classification

S8
13

• ABSTRACT
• Every year sugar beet diseases cause lower sugar
  beet yields and qualities compared to the
  average. For that reason, high resolution field
  and airborne hyperspectral data is used to
  recognize a fungal sugar beet disease in a study
  area of south Germany. For the airborne part of
  the study, multitemporal hyperspectral remote
  sensing data is provided by an airborne
  Spectroradiometer (AVIS), which is operated by
  the Ground Truth Center Oberbayern (gtco,
  Germany). Additionally, tractor based
  multitemporal hyperspectral reflection data
  provided by the GVIS specrometer is used to
  validate the AVIS data and to compare to two
  classification results. To indicate the
  difference between healthy and unhealthy plants a
  supervised knowledge-based classification
  approach is used. To detect the sugar beet
  disease Rhizoctonia solani, the reflection
  results can be elaborated with hyperspectral
  vegetation indices. Therefore, the two
  multitemporal datasets are analysed by
  calculating the OSAVI, which is one of these
  vegetation indices. Finally, the resulting images
  are classified into several vitality classes.
• This paper presents the evaluation of the
  generated multitemporal classification and
  discusses the possibility of detecting and
  regionalizing sugar beet diseases with
  hyperspectral systems and methods.
•  
• 186 Words
• S8

14

• 1. INTRODUCTION
• For the majority of the European citizens, the
  availability of daily food with high quality
  standards is common. Among other things, this
  matter of fact attributes to the demands of the
  legislator and the market, who claim quality
  control and (geo-) traceability of all processes
  within the food supply chain. With respect to
  this background, .

In a Review paper avoid including references in
the introduction Instead explain why the study
is important for the scientific world and what
exactly being covered in the paper Its OK to
have a short introduction S8
15
Discussion

• This is the main body of the paper
• You may sub-classify Discussion in a preferred
  order
• By subjects (plants, machines, buildings,
  materials etc.)
• By methods (sensing techniques, measuring
  systems, types of algorithms, detection
  techniques etc.)
• By sequence of development
• Better not by chronological order (although
  some do that)

16
Discussion

• This is where you make your contribution
• Discuss
• What development made by X over Y ?
• Why Ps method is better than Qs ?
• What else could R have done ?
• Can we find a better method by combining Ts
  and Us work?
• Is there a consequential development of the
  subject (or have we gone backwards) ?
• What can we predict in the Future? S8

17
Conclusions

• Summarize the discussion highlighting important
  land marks and state again what you predict with
  regard to the development of the subject in the
  future.
• S8

18

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• This study as well as the development of SuMIS
  were enabled by a cooperation between the sugar
  company Südzucker AG and the University of
  Hohenheim (Stuttgart), Germany and founded by the
  Kuratorium für Versuchswesen und Beratung im
  Zuckerrübenbau, Germany.

Acknowledge, Institution/s where the research
is carried out The research grant (Grant number
and name of the funding agency) Any
institution or individual that extensively
supported the research Do not acknowledge
People who helped in proof reading, gave verbal
encouragement or gave marginal support
(carrying equipment, word processing,
transportation etc.) Friends and loved once
(unless they specifically contributed to the
research) Co-authors
19
References

• Make sure that you stick to the guidelines of the
  journal
• Numbers in parenthesis 12,
• Numbers in superscript 12
• Alphabetical Order Kroner and Vauniget (2002)
• Also pay attention to the Journal abbreviation
• Eg. Journal of Geophysical Research (J Geophys.
  Res.)

20
THANK YOU