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14th ICPA in the Ag News PrecisionAg Magazine's Rodrigo Trevisan provides a nice write-up of the conference keynotes and the research presented. Trevisan, a three time attendee of ICPA, notes, "the transformation and evolution of scientific research during the last several years has been incredible." See article ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Coordination and Support of International Research Data Networks: Final Report Published The OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) and the World Data System (WDS) partnered on a project to inform policies to promote open data for science focused on internationally coordinated data networks. The overall aim was to identify principles and policy actions that can enable the establishment and maintenance of effective international data networks that are necessary to support a global open science enterprise. Article, Citation, Paper, Research Data Networks, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Demonstration of Drone Technology for Aerial Spray submitted by Dr. Ejaz Ashraf, 06 FEB 2019 Recently, on January 14, 2019 a high level delegation headed by the Dr. Yubin Lane from South China University, China visited University of Sargodha, Punjab-Pakistan. The purpose of the visit was to introduce precision agricultural technologies to the researchers and farmers of the province of Punjab-Pakistan. Dr. Yubin presented the documentary and slides to demonstrate the applications of Drone technology in the field of agriculture. The delegation visited the agricultural fields in the agricultural campus of the University of Sargodha and practically demonstrated the applications of drone technology first time in the history of the ... drone, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter, Pakistan
Digital Agriculture Certification Course Kick-off of the first edition of the Digital Agriculture certification course (AgroDigiLab) at the Université d'Abomey-Calavi This intensive two-week training course started with a welcome address by Mr Pascal Marcolino, representative of the AUF- Benin, and a speech by Prof. Enoch Gbenato Achigan-Dako, Director of GBioS. In his opening speech, Mr Pascal Marcolino stressed the importance of digitalisation in all sectors and urged participants to seize this opportunity to enrich their knowledge. "Digitalisation has an impact on all areas. Make the most of this training to equip yourselves further," he said. Several modules will ... ISPAG Monthly Newsletter, Republic of Benin
Highlighting the Role of Agriculture and Geospatial Technology in Food Security and Sustainable Development Goals Authors: Prem Chandra Pandey, Manish Pandey Food security is a global challenge that aligns with several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 1 - “No Poverty”, SDG 2 - “Zero Hunger,” SDG 3 - “Good Health and Well-being,” SDG 13 - “Climate Action,” and SDG 15 - “Life on Land.”. To effectively address this issue, a convergence of agriculture and technology is crucial, incorporating precision agriculture, sustainable agriculture, bio-economy and advanced technologies such as machineries, Artificial intelligence-meachine learning and geospatial technology. Recent trends in food security worldwide have witnessed the adoption of technological ... ISPAG Monthly Newsletter, India
ISPA Economics Community Deputy Economics Community Leader Professor Marius Michels from Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany) has successfully been elected un-opposed as the incoming ISPA Economics Community Deputy Leader. Marius Michels, who grew up on an arable farm, pursued a bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences with a specialization in crop sciences at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany in 2013. Subsequently, he commenced a master's program in economic and social sciences of agriculture at the same university, completing it in 2016. His PhD thesis centered on the utilization of smartphones for agricultural purposes. At present, Marius Michels is a ... Economics, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
ISPA Members Presenting at 7th Precision Ag Summit The theme of the 7th annual Precision Ag Action Summit is “Creating Certainty during Times of Volatility,” and reflects the current state of the agricultural industry. Dr. Terry Griffin, Treasurer of the ISPA, will deliver the keynote address on “The Evolution of a Revolution: Past, Present & Future of Precision Ag” describing the infancy of precision agriculture and how technology evolved into big data in agriculture. In addition to delivering the keynote address, Griffin will moderate the panel on “Farmers Who Know Precision Ag” with two North Dakota farmers. Griffin is following in the ... News, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Let's Define Precision Agriculture Today, several dozen definitions exist to define the term “precision agriculture”. Some of these definitions are more widely used than others. However, the public perspective on precision agriculture has been changing with time and the original definitions may no longer be representative of this change. Many of the authors of published definitions are members of the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA), and it will be a useful exercise to gather society-wide opinion on the proper definition. Please complete this short survey in an effort to develop a new definition and publish it on the front page of ... News, survey, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Nitrogen Management Community - Special Issue The Precision Nitrogen Management Community is organizing a Special Issue in Remote Sensing journal on “Remote Sensing for Precision Nitrogen Management”, the details can be found at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Precision_N ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Personal Reflection on ACPA and PA17 by Ian Yule The (Asia Australasia Conference on Precision Agriculture) ACPA was an interesting barometer in how things are changing and how different parts of the world have different problems to deal with. From a personal point-of-view I felt the New Zealand held ACPA conference was quite different to many of those I had attended over the years. The world-wide participants were mainly from Asia, Australasia, but there were numbers from the USA and Europe. The audience was actually younger than most conferences I had been to, there were more women, more women demonstrating leadership through presentations and invited ... ACPA17, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Report on ACPA PA17 Conference by Ian Yule The 7th Asian-Australian Conference for Precision Agriculture was held in Hamilton New Zealand between the 16th and 19th of October 2017. This event was a Tri-Conference (PA17) which included the 7th Asian-Australasian Conference on Precision Agriculture, the 1st Asian-Australian Conference on Precision Pasture and Livestock Farming and the Digital-Farmer 2017. Over 500 delegates attended the overall event. The organisation of the conference was organised under the auspices of the Precision Agriculture Association New Zealand, (PAANZ). Conference chairman was Armin Werner, chair of the conference organising committee was Jim Grennell, delegates were welcomed by the chairman of PAANZ, Craige ... ACPA, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Some Thoughts Around Robotics and Automation by Ian Yule I have been to two conferences recently where ideas around robotics and automation have been discussed and very different solutions offered. Ideas around robotics and automation are continuing and there are a number of schools of thought as to how agriculture will respond. Will we go for smaller robots and robot swarms to complete tasks or will we see our major ag companies produce driverless versions of their present equipment. While attending the Agricultural Engineering 2017 conference just before the Agritechnica exhibition held in Hannover in November 2017 I was reminder about some of the fundamentals of the ... Robotics, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Survey of the use of apps and/or digital platforms for data management in agriculture. Survey 2022. Precision Agriculture has two major strategic partners that enhance the degree of adoption by users, on the one hand, Agricultural Machinery, which is no longer just an articulated set of parts for the purpose of optimizing energy use through of the application of power in agricultural tasks, but today it needs technologies that improve its efficiency with care for the productive environment. On the other hand, the second strategic partner is Digital Agriculture (AD), which has developed and incorporated applications and/or digital platforms for managing agricultural data, based mainly on the use of satellite images that, with advanced computational ... survey, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Technology and Science Innovation Investment in Our Primary Industry Sector by Ian Yule There are clearly a number of sources of funding for innovation investment in the AgriFood Tech space. Historically we used to consider the primary sector as being agriculture, horticulture, livestock and forestry, but we are now much more integrated in our thinking of farm to fork, or producer to consumer. Supply Chain and retail attracts over 3 times the level of investment compared to on-farm activities. Various mechanisms are at work at any point in time with a number of different funding sources, either private or public. A very good starting point to build an understanding of ... AgFunder, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
The Future of Farming: Precision Agriculture Takes Root in Canada Asim Biswas, Professor and OAC Research Chair in Soils and Precision Agriculture, University of Guelph; Country Representative (Canada) of ISPA In the vast, diverse landscapes of Canada, a revolution is quietly unfolding, promising to transform the future of farming. Precision agriculture, a term that might sound futuristic to some, is increasingly becoming a present reality, reshaping how crops are grown across the country. This innovative approach to farming leverages technology to make agriculture more efficient, sustainable, and productive. It's about using data and advanced technologies to make informed decisions, optimizing every aspect of farm management from soil health ... ISPAG Monthly Newsletter, Canada
The Global Soil Organic Carbon Map (GSOCmap) The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) and the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) launched a global endeavor to develop the Global Soil Organic Carbon map (GSOCmap) using a country-driven approach as part of the Global Soil Information System (GLOSIS). GSP provided technical support and on-the-job training to most countries to produce national SOC maps according to standardized specifications. The Global Soil Organic Carbon map V1.0 is an important stepping stone to better know the current Soil Organic Carbon stock stored beneath our feet and soils’ potential for further sequestration. The data are also available as Geotiff. Data, Soil, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter
Transition to data-driven decisions on the farm The hard part of transitioning to data-driven decisions isn’t when the data supports what you already believe to be true. The difficult part is when the data analysis challenges what we think we already know. Article, News, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Results17 articles found.

14th ICPA in the Ag News

PrecisionAg Magazine's Rodrigo Trevisan provides a nice write-up of the conference keynotes and the research presented. Trevisan, a three time attendee of ICPA, notes, "the transformation and evolution of scientific research during the last several years has been incredible." See article

ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Coordination and Support of International Research Data Networks: Final Report Published

The OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) and the World Data System (WDS) partnered on a project to inform policies to promote open data for science focused on internationally coordinated data networks. The overall aim was to identify principles and policy actions that can enable the establishment and maintenance of effective international data networks that are necessary to support a global open science enterprise.

Article, Citation, Paper, Research Data Networks, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Demonstration of Drone Technology for Aerial Spray

submitted by Dr. Ejaz Ashraf, 06 FEB 2019 Recently, on January 14, 2019 a high level delegation headed by the Dr. Yubin Lane from South China University, China visited University of Sargodha, Punjab-Pakistan. The purpose of the visit was to introduce precision agricultural technologies to the researchers and farmers of the province of Punjab-Pakistan. Dr. Yubin presented the documentary and slides to demonstrate the applications of Drone technology in the field of agriculture. The delegation visited the agricultural fields in the agricultural campus of the University of Sargodha and practically demonstrated the applications of drone technology first time in the history of the ...

drone, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter, Pakistan

Digital Agriculture Certification Course

Kick-off of the first edition of the Digital Agriculture certification course (AgroDigiLab) at the Université d'Abomey-Calavi This intensive two-week training course started with a welcome address by Mr Pascal Marcolino, representative of the AUF- Benin, and a speech by Prof. Enoch Gbenato Achigan-Dako, Director of GBioS. In his opening speech, Mr Pascal Marcolino stressed the importance of digitalisation in all sectors and urged participants to seize this opportunity to enrich their knowledge. "Digitalisation has an impact on all areas. Make the most of this training to equip yourselves further," he said. Several modules will ...

ISPAG Monthly Newsletter, Republic of Benin

Highlighting the Role of Agriculture and Geospatial Technology in Food Security and Sustainable Development Goals

Authors: Prem Chandra Pandey, Manish Pandey Food security is a global challenge that aligns with several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 1 - “No Poverty”, SDG 2 - “Zero Hunger,” SDG 3 - “Good Health and Well-being,” SDG 13 - “Climate Action,” and SDG 15 - “Life on Land.”. To effectively address this issue, a convergence of agriculture and technology is crucial, incorporating precision agriculture, sustainable agriculture, bio-economy and advanced technologies such as machineries, Artificial intelligence-meachine learning and geospatial technology. Recent trends in food security worldwide have witnessed the adoption of technological ...

ISPAG Monthly Newsletter, India

ISPA Economics Community

Deputy Economics Community Leader Professor Marius Michels from Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany) has successfully been elected un-opposed as the incoming ISPA Economics Community Deputy Leader. Marius Michels, who grew up on an arable farm, pursued a bachelor's degree in agricultural sciences with a specialization in crop sciences at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany in 2013. Subsequently, he commenced a master's program in economic and social sciences of agriculture at the same university, completing it in 2016. His PhD thesis centered on the utilization of smartphones for agricultural purposes. At present, Marius Michels is a ...

Economics, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

ISPA Members Presenting at 7th Precision Ag Summit

The theme of the 7th annual Precision Ag Action Summit is “Creating Certainty during Times of Volatility,” and reflects the current state of the agricultural industry. Dr. Terry Griffin, Treasurer of the ISPA, will deliver the keynote address on “The Evolution of a Revolution: Past, Present & Future of Precision Ag” describing the infancy of precision agriculture and how technology evolved into big data in agriculture. In addition to delivering the keynote address, Griffin will moderate the panel on “Farmers Who Know Precision Ag” with two North Dakota farmers. Griffin is following in the ...

News, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Let's Define Precision Agriculture

Today, several dozen definitions exist to define the term “precision agriculture”. Some of these definitions are more widely used than others. However, the public perspective on precision agriculture has been changing with time and the original definitions may no longer be representative of this change. Many of the authors of published definitions are members of the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA), and it will be a useful exercise to gather society-wide opinion on the proper definition. Please complete this short survey in an effort to develop a new definition and publish it on the front page of ...

News, survey, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Nitrogen Management Community - Special Issue

The Precision Nitrogen Management Community is organizing a Special Issue in Remote Sensing journal on “Remote Sensing for Precision Nitrogen Management”, the details can be found at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Precision_N

ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Personal Reflection on ACPA and PA17

by Ian Yule The (Asia Australasia Conference on Precision Agriculture) ACPA was an interesting barometer in how things are changing and how different parts of the world have different problems to deal with. From a personal point-of-view I felt the New Zealand held ACPA conference was quite different to many of those I had attended over the years. The world-wide participants were mainly from Asia, Australasia, but there were numbers from the USA and Europe. The audience was actually younger than most conferences I had been to, there were more women, more women demonstrating leadership through presentations and invited ...

ACPA17, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Report on ACPA PA17 Conference

by Ian Yule The 7th Asian-Australian Conference for Precision Agriculture was held in Hamilton New Zealand between the 16th and 19th of October 2017. This event was a Tri-Conference (PA17) which included the 7th Asian-Australasian Conference on Precision Agriculture, the 1st Asian-Australian Conference on Precision Pasture and Livestock Farming and the Digital-Farmer 2017. Over 500 delegates attended the overall event. The organisation of the conference was organised under the auspices of the Precision Agriculture Association New Zealand, (PAANZ). Conference chairman was Armin Werner, chair of the conference organising committee was Jim Grennell, delegates were welcomed by the chairman of PAANZ, Craige ...

ACPA, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Some Thoughts Around Robotics and Automation

by Ian Yule I have been to two conferences recently where ideas around robotics and automation have been discussed and very different solutions offered. Ideas around robotics and automation are continuing and there are a number of schools of thought as to how agriculture will respond. Will we go for smaller robots and robot swarms to complete tasks or will we see our major ag companies produce driverless versions of their present equipment. While attending the Agricultural Engineering 2017 conference just before the Agritechnica exhibition held in Hannover in November 2017 I was reminder about some of the fundamentals of the ...

Robotics, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Survey of the use of apps and/or digital platforms for data management in agriculture. Survey 2022.

Precision Agriculture has two major strategic partners that enhance the degree of adoption by users, on the one hand, Agricultural Machinery, which is no longer just an articulated set of parts for the purpose of optimizing energy use through of the application of power in agricultural tasks, but today it needs technologies that improve its efficiency with care for the productive environment. On the other hand, the second strategic partner is Digital Agriculture (AD), which has developed and incorporated applications and/or digital platforms for managing agricultural data, based mainly on the use of satellite images that, with advanced computational ...

survey, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Technology and Science Innovation Investment in Our Primary Industry Sector

by Ian Yule There are clearly a number of sources of funding for innovation investment in the AgriFood Tech space. Historically we used to consider the primary sector as being agriculture, horticulture, livestock and forestry, but we are now much more integrated in our thinking of farm to fork, or producer to consumer. Supply Chain and retail attracts over 3 times the level of investment compared to on-farm activities. Various mechanisms are at work at any point in time with a number of different funding sources, either private or public. A very good starting point to build an understanding of ...

AgFunder, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

The Future of Farming: Precision Agriculture Takes Root in Canada

Asim Biswas, Professor and OAC Research Chair in Soils and Precision Agriculture, University of Guelph; Country Representative (Canada) of ISPA In the vast, diverse landscapes of Canada, a revolution is quietly unfolding, promising to transform the future of farming. Precision agriculture, a term that might sound futuristic to some, is increasingly becoming a present reality, reshaping how crops are grown across the country. This innovative approach to farming leverages technology to make agriculture more efficient, sustainable, and productive. It's about using data and advanced technologies to make informed decisions, optimizing every aspect of farm management from soil health ...

ISPAG Monthly Newsletter, Canada

The Global Soil Organic Carbon Map (GSOCmap)

The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) and the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) launched a global endeavor to develop the Global Soil Organic Carbon map (GSOCmap) using a country-driven approach as part of the Global Soil Information System (GLOSIS). GSP provided technical support and on-the-job training to most countries to produce national SOC maps according to standardized specifications. The Global Soil Organic Carbon map V1.0 is an important stepping stone to better know the current Soil Organic Carbon stock stored beneath our feet and soils’ potential for further sequestration. The data are also available as Geotiff.

Data, Soil, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter

Transition to data-driven decisions on the farm

The hard part of transitioning to data-driven decisions isn’t when the data supports what you already believe to be true. The difficult part is when the data analysis challenges what we think we already know.

Article, News, ISPAG Monthly Newsletter