DI Walter H. Mayer
PROGIS Software GmbH
Postgasse 6, A-9500 Villach www.progis.com office@progis.com +43 4242 26332
WinGIS®-AGROffice® and BING®-maps: Since years PROGIS has been developing an object oriented GIS (WinGIS®), agriculture and forestry applications for single enterprises, for advisors, for the chain management including logistics and communication implementation with mobile GIS (mobGIS®) systems etc. A worldwide cooperation with the Microsoft BING® department as well as new cloud technology allows now to have the entire US and large parts of Europa available in precise 30cm orthoimage maps as a base for precision farming, also downloadable on the field with a MS-WinPhone® supported Nokia device. Other countries with new maps will follow.
Technologies integrated are a powerful and object oriented GIS, internet accessible orthoimage maps of every part of the US, technologies like isolining or krigging that allow to transfer point information – e.g. harvest results or soil-NPK-lab-or sensor-results – to area information, mobile GIS systems that allow that drivers get on their mobile phones contracts with maps – PF maps - and last but not least an interface to a e.g. manure distributor or sprayer equipment.
NPK-sensors: The key question for the future is a correct map content that shows the real situation on the field resp. gives a correct advice. A wrong map gives wrong support. In the past we had soil sampling with lab results – maybe 1 sample per ha - and/or calculated fertilizer balances as fundament of decisions for fertilizer needs. New NPK-sensors allow in the future to get all 15 seconds a detailed and precise N+P+K value, worked out e.g. during ploughing or other activity on the field and automatically transferred into a map on a mobile equipment. These precise data will be the decision for the use of the most expensive input into agricultural systems – fertilizer. Besides economic benefits we will also create ecological benefits and increase – a better and sustainably managed soil will have a higher value than a leached soil – the value of our farms.
