Gnss Opportunities In Precision Agriculture

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High Precision Applications

in Agriculture

Presented at Galileo Application Days

Brussels, 5 March 2010

Tamme van der Wal

aerovision.nl


AeroVision profile• Private, independent company located in Zwolle and

Naarden, The Netherlands;

• We motivate our clients to base their (spatial) information

needs on their own processes;

• We provide users with adequate advice on how to benefit

optimally from structured spatial information;

• Aerovision helps you to make smarter decisions by asking

yourself what is really needed to improve.

• Tamme van der Wal coordinated the FieldFact project (2004-2009).

ZwolleZwolle NaardenNaarden


The Farm as central entity(see next slide)

• The Farm (farmer) is positioned at a cross sectionof his value chain with a governance chain;

• ICT is crucial enabler to deal with on-farminformation management for optimising activities;

• Similar information is requested by the valuechain and the governance chain;

• ICT (and precision agriculture) helps farmers toovercome administrative burdens.


RETAIL CONSUMERTRADE &

TRANSPORTSUPPLIER

FIELD

GOVERN-

MENT

General food law

HACCP; EurepGAP

CAP

Water-, nitrate-,

habitat directives

Farmer practices

Location of produce

Spatial context

Agricultural user community

information flows

SERVICES

FARM


Agricultural Sector• EU27: 15 million farmers on 160 million ha;

• 7 million farmers applying for EU community aid;– 70% < 5 ha.

– 700 000 > 50 ha

– ± 250 000 new tractors /yr


What is precision agriculture?

Technology

• Machine guidance - implement guidance;

• Time- and location specific activities / VRA;

• Integration of data, systems, knowledge.

Management style

• Total Quality Management: Plan-Do-Check-Act;

• Make smarter decisions;

• Systems thinking.

Transition instrument

• Stimulate co-innovation involving (all) stakeholders;

• Strengthen competitiveness + export opportunity for solution providers;

• “Greening” agriculture!


Precision Agriculture ‘monitor’

Section control

Remote Sensing

Yield prediction

(N, H2O, product)

Area Measurement

Biomass

monitoring

robots

VRA

Yield monitor

Soil sampling

Soil mappingGIS-integration

Management software

Spraying DSS (meteo)Vehicle-

Tracking

IT integration

Data exchange

Machine guidance

Different PrecAg applications placed on Gartners Hype Cycle curve.

Variable Rate Application (VRA) is promising but must prove itself. Too many uncertainties still.


High Tech agriculture

Tractor cabin full of screens, controls, steering aids …


GNSS opportunities in EU agriculture

• Increasing Efficiency;

– “precision pays”;

• Wholefarm information management;

– Farm resource planning and performance monitoring;

• (im)prove compliance to regulations;

– EU support (!) and environmental directives;

– Food Law, GlobalGap, HACCP etc.


Focus on EGNOS

10-2 m. 10-1 m. 100 m. 101 m.

RTKCommercial

Global augmentationEGNOS Unaugmented

GNSS

Planting,

Weeding,

Revisiting,

harvesting

machine

Guidance;

Spraying, spreading

Harvesting bulk crops;

Area measurement;

Field mapping.

Tracking &

Tracing.

ACCURACY

IS

ADDICTIV

E

Rob Lorimer quote.


FieldFact project

• Asking farmers about their daily work;

• Describing information needs based on

daily processes;

• Selecting priority applications for EGNOS;

• Developing prototypes;

• Test and evaluate.


Three applications selected

for EGNOS• EU financial support declarations;

• Wholefarm information management;

• Variable rate application of fertilizer or

herbicide.


EU Financial support

EU reg:

2009R73

2009R1122

Cheap,

Runs on

mobile phone


Wholefarm information mgt


evaluation

monitoring

application

advise

Management cycle on each spot


Advice

Farm management

system

GIS

supplier GEO information

parcel

- Soil map

- Yield map

- Monitoring data

Application

map

Parcel information

to governmental

organisation for

subsidies

Product information

to customer

Application

GNSS guided

implement

contractor

Farm spatial infrastructure


Tracks with

active sprayer

directly put

in database


Variability within parcels


Geo information soil fertility properties

Soil property:

Parcel 67a

Organic matter

Parcel 69a

pH

Parcel 70a

Organic matter

67a

69a

70a


On line sensing en N-application


Variable Spraying Requirements



REFERENCE DATA

-aerial photo

-Parcel boundaries

RESTRICTION MAPS

-Water ways (buffers)

-Protected areas

MANAGEMENT DATA

-Crop plan

-Parcel boundaries

-Management goals

SENSING DATA

-satellite

-Weather

-Soil samples

-Etc.



REFERENCE DATA

-aerial photo

-Parcel boundaries

RESTRICTION MAPS

-Water ways (buffers)

-Protected areas

MANAGEMENT DATA

-Crop plan

-Parcel boundaries

-Management goals

SENSING DATA

-satellite

-Weather

-Soil samples

-Etc.

OK OK

OK OK


Conclusions• Precision Agriculture is an important instrument in

achieving a transition in agriculture. It is necessary tocreate a sustainable, viable economic sector that maintainsrural identity and landscape;

• Starting from on-farm processes - GNSS is just one datasource: Agriculture needs integrated solutions: GNSS -ICT - process management;

• EGNOS is one GNSS solution with specific targetedopportunities. Farmers get addicted to accuracy and wantmore when they can get it;

• Agriculture is a very interesting market to build GNSSHigh Precision applications for. Spillovers to many othersectors.


Thank you for your attention

www.fieldfact.com

This presentation was delivered on behalf of the FieldFact consortium. Many thanks to all

partners for their collaboration and materials used in this presentation. FieldFact is a

project under the EU 6th framework programme governed by GNSS Supervisory Authority.

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