Geo-spatial technologies for agriculture
Information on soil parameters (humidity, fertilizer content, crop maturity or disease) derived from Earth Observation satellites has already been used successfully by farmers to reduce water consumption and fertilizer use, with no reduction in yield. Furthermore, using satellite navigation systems to guide farming machinery has become almost standard practice in some countries (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands).
However, while the technology has been proved to work, the innovative services related to the technology are currently emerging, and not yet in use on a sufficiently large scale, given their added value. The development of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) applications relative to Earth Observation applications is often treated separately, even though the technologies have more impact together than separately, when applied to the same problems.
This workshop will make an inventory of the current precision agriculture solutions that have been proven to work, and of the needs and constraints of their users, in order to pave the way for a more extensive use of effective satellite services.
Link to the workshop webpage:
http://www.eurisy.org/event-precision-agriculture-the-added-value-of-geoinformation-and-lbs_32/about
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