Precision agriculture seminar at AGRO (kopi 2)
AGRO hosts an internal seminar for those working in precision agriculture (PA) or topics related to PA. The purpose of this seminar is to increase knowledge of on-going PA activities within AGRO, to foster new and existing collaboration, and to map activities and find potential gaps in our activities that need to be focused on.
Info about event
Time
Location
M2 - AU Viborg
We therefore strongly encourage you to make a short presentation of your project, data, results, methods or anything related to what you are doing with relations to PA.
Tuesday 3rd December 2024 at AU-Viborg meeting room 2 from 10 to 16.30.
The AGRO Strategy has eight focus areas and one of them is Sustainable digital-based farming:
The technological development within sensors and data processing increasingly apply Al technologies offering new possibilities for monitoring, controlling, and managing production systems. This entails automation of production processes using robotic technologies integrated with novel proximal sensing technologies. This will support the development and design of new sustainable crop and farming systems with consideration of landscape aspects and the application of new technologies within plant breeding, crop protection, fertilisation, and soil management.
This fits well with the definition of PA:
Precision agriculture (PA) is a farming management strategy based on observing, measuring and responding to temporal and spatial variability to improve agricultural production sustainability. It is used in both crop and livestock production. Precision agriculture often employs technologies to automate agricultural operations, improving their diagnosis, decision-making or performing. The goal of precision agriculture research is to define a decision support system for whole farm management with the goal of optimizing returns on inputs while preserving resources.
Register here: events.au.dk/precisionagricultureatagro no later than November 28.
IMPORTANT: if you want to present your work the deadline for registering is the 20th of November. Send an e-mail to either Davide Cammarano (davide.cammarano@agro.au.dk) or René Gislum (rg@agro.au.dk). The e-mail should contain the title of your presentation.
Program of the day
| Time | Topic | Format | Description | Responsible |
10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome and presentation of today's program | Introduction | Introduction to precision agriculture, objectives of the workshop, and what we want to achieve from it. Bring your own coffee. | Davide and René |
10:15 – 12:00 | Individual presentations | Oral presentation, not more than 5 minutes per participant. | This is your opportunity to present some of your work. | Davide |
12:00 – 12:30 | Lunch | You have to buy lunch yourself. | The cantina is open. | |
12:30 – 13:30 | Individual presentations | Oral presentation, not more than 5 minutes per participant. | This is your opportunity to present some of your work. | René |
13:30 – 14:00 | First round of group work | Group discussion where one person is the facilitator and later presents the outcome. | Participants are divided into groups. Each group is given a scenario related to their topic. | Davide and René |
14:00 – 14:30 | Coffee break | Coffee, tea, water, and cake will be provided. | ||
14:30 - 15:00 | Second round of group work | Group discussion where one person is the facilitator and later presents the outcome. | Participants are divided into groups. Each group is given a scenario related to their topic. | Davide and René |
15:00 - 16:15 | Final group presentations and discussion | Oral presentation, not more than 5 minutes per group followed by 10 min discussion | Each group presents their topic, followed by a moderate discussion. | Davide and René |
16:15 – 16:30 | Closing remarks and take away | Wrap-up | Recap of the day and how to move on | Davide and René |
We have four topics that we believe are important for AGRO either to strength our collaboration or to explore new opportunities. These topics are:
1. Sensors
- types of sensors: soil moisture sensors, crop sensors, UAVs, satellites.
- Applications: monitoring soil health, assessing crops, managing water and nutrients.
- Data capture methods and resolution differences between proximal and remote sensing.
2. Data management
- Types of agricultural data (structured and unstructured).
- Data cleaning, integration, and storage.
- Data availability for others in AGRO?
- Utilization of data in our policy support work.
3. Algorithm development for Precision Agriculture
- Best practices for building, testing, and evaluating models.
- Do we have any collaboration building these algorithms.
4. The crazy project
- Describe a crazy PA project we alone in AGRO or in collaboration with others are able to make.
- What are our limitations for making this project.
Outcome and Takeaways
By the end of the workshop, participants should:• Be familiar with most projects and activities related to precision agriculture topics in AGRO.
- Have a clear understanding of whom to contact for the different projects and activities in AGRO.
- Have identified areas and/or topics that are relevant for our future work related to our strategy and we have chosen at least two collaborative topics that will be followed and presented when finalized.