How to improve farming advisory services at 123rd OGC Member Meeting

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Let us cordially invite you to join the upcoming Agriculture DWG session on “How to improve farming advisory services – from global needs and data to local advisory services”.

During the session, we plan to provide insights into existing advisory services, analyse problems with advisory services, look at how global data can be used locally, and how we can integrate local and global data. We will also discuss how different models and semantics can influence the transferring of solutions from country to country.

The session will be held during the 123rd OGC Member Meeting on Wednesday 15 June, 12:00 – 13:30 PM CET.

We would love to have you as a speaker addressing the following questions from the perspective of your organization:

  • What are the main problems of current advisory services?
  • Where do you see the future? Global or local solutions?
  • Can we transfer experience from industry to agriculture?
  • How to integrate global and local data?

Of course you can also nominate any of your colleagues if they would be a better fit to speak at the session. And please feel free to generally share this information within your organisation.

Please contact Hana Kubíčková at hana.kubickova@plan4all.eu to let us know if you are interested or if you have additional questions.

Drones Utilization for Crop Protection Webinar

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In this webinar, we will introduce you to the challenge of the Agrihub INSPIRE Hackathon 2022, namely Challenge #15 Drones utilization for crop protection, which is one of innovation experiments defined for the Agrihub CZ&SK project. The objective of the innovation experiment is twofold – to present the possibilities for the exploitation and implementation of drones in agricultural practice, especially in the crop protection, and to open discussion for further cooperation for this field in the frame of the triple helix principle – R&D/farmers/SMEs.

The webinar is scheduled on 13/05 at 10 AM CEST.

Venue: virtual
Language: english
Duration: 1 hour

Agenda:

  • 10:00 – 10:15 Introduction to Drones utilization for crop protection
  • 10:15 – 10:45 Farming robots and the use of drones in agriculture – Presentation of the use of drones in agriculture and a short introduction to the newest methods used in aerial farming.
    • Presentation agenda:
      • Introduction to the application of robots in agriculture,
      • use of drones in agriculture,
      • recent methods used in aerial farming.
  • 10:45 – 11:15 Competences of university students for the use of drones in agriculture

Registration for the webinar is FREE. Register yourself via this link.

VIDEO: Utilization of Sensors in Agriculture WEBINAR

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Utilization of Sensors in Agriculture Webinar – 3/5/2022 Sensors are one of important data producers that are used in many domains, including agriculture. Sensors can be utilized to monitor status of fields, buildings, livestock, machinery, delivery products and many many others use cases.

Invitation to Open Land Use Webinar

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In this webinar, we will introduce you two challenges of the Agrihub INSPIRE Hackathon 2022, namely Challenge #8 How to use and improve OLU 2.0 and Challenge #7 OLU4Africa. It’s because these two challenges will cooperate closely on their goals. The broad goal of the CH8 is to enhance the established Open Land Use (OLU) 2.0 database with other thematic datasets and/or with data from different regions. That is where a goal of CH7 comes into play, which is to improve a second version of Open Land Use map for Africa primarily with ESA World Cover data. 

During the webinar, we briefly present OLU 2.0, its capabilities and the way how to use it. Then, we present some already done use cases from Africa or China, while the open questions for the hackathon will be stated.

The webinar is scheduled on 6/05 at 10 AM CEST.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83457552369?pwd=QnBEeFNDUGdQNTNMSmExcnc1UXdXZz09

Venue: virtual
Language: English
Duration: 45 minutes

Agenda:

10:00 – 10:15 Introduction to OpenLandUse 2.0 database
10:15 – 10:40 How OLU 2.0 was used so far – use cases: 

  • Examples on Rostenice Farm
  • OLU4Africa (it is also linked to SmartAfriHub activities)
  • OLU v2 for China (this activities are connected with SIEUSOIL project (https://www.sieusoil.eu/) and will be integrate  on SIEUSOIL Hub)

Webinar will introduce following challenges of Agrihub INSPIRE Hackathon 2022:

Registration for the webinar is FREE. Register yourself via this link.

Invitation to Utilization of Sensors in Agriculture Webinar

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Sensors are one of important data producers that are used in many domains, including agriculture. Sensors can be utilized to monitor status of fields, buildings, livestock, machinery, delivery products and many many others use cases. 

The Webinar will introduce our open solution for sensor data management – SensLog with its extending components – Connectors and Analytics. We will introduce our web client application for visualization of measurements and management of the sensor networks. FIE20 application is a results of SmartAgriHubs Flagship Innovation Experiment #20 integrating different datasets useful for farmers in one application. 

During the webinar we will also introduce you to the Innovation Experiment of the Agrihub CZ&SK project that deals with the assessment of the available amount of water in irrigation and other reservoirs. The sensors we are dealing with are two types:

  • prototype of ultrasonic sensor for water level elevation
  • soil moisture sensors

The sensors will allow us to get the current data in watersheds and water reservoirs and with the use of weather forecast we will be able to estimate the amount of water that is currently stored in the reservoir and how much water will flow to the reservoir after forthcoming rain events.

 

Registration for the webinar is FREE. Register yourself via this link.

The webinar is scheduled on May 3rd 10-11 CEST.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88487793773?pwd=aEZSeFR1amZmZngwbHhzVmtaYkovdz09

Venue: virtual
Language: English
Duration: 60 minutes

Agenda

  • 10:00-10:10 SensLog – solution for sensor data management
  • 10:10-10:20 SensClient – application for visualization of measurements
  • 10:20-10:30 FIE20 application – web map application integrating data sources for farmers
  • 10:30 – 10:45 Irrigation management

Webinar will introduce following challenges of AgriHub INSPIRE Hackathon 2022: 

Agrihub INSPIRE Hackathon 2022: Challenge #2 Analytical tools for WhiteBoard

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MENTORS: Runar Bergheim, Karel Charvat, Raitis Berzins

Collaborative analysis for smart farming

The MapWhiteboard is used as an add-on to an application that performs automatic zoning of agricultural fields based on remote sensing data. The application takes as input a field, automatically acquires satellite imagery time series data, calculates indices such as the NVDI and uses the resulting 4D data to determine zones in the respective field that should be treated differently with respect to fertilisation, irrigation and pesticide application.

The MapWhiteboard component adds value to this scenario in two ways:

  • Users can indicate points that reside within distinct areas of the field
  • Users can modify the resulting zones after auto-classification
  • Users can add recommendations, rates to the individual zones

Integrated planning tool

The Map Whiteboard is used as a component supporting collaborative planning processes that involve regional sector authorities, local authorities/municipalities and stakeholders in the planning processes from business/industry/real-estate and NGOs/civil society/organisations.

The traditional planning process requires these stakeholders to work together either separately or, traditionally, in meetings. Much of the interaction concerns maps where people with varying experience in interpreting maps and spatial data work together in meeting rooms on big screens or hunched above printed maps laid out on a table.

The MapWhiteboard augments the meeting experience, allows people to see exactly what is referred to and can add contextual information to better understand exact locations. A person inexperienced in GIS concepts can see the map as if it was Google Maps, can switch to satellite/aerial imagery background and make simple annotations. A more technical user may add WMS services and other contextual information. All can see each other’s pointers.

Generic meeting augmentation tool

Inspired by tools like menti.com which provides polling functions to ensure participative conferences and miro.com which offers a comprehensive digital whiteboard functionality, the MapWhiteboard is in this case used to bring up a map of anywhere on the globe and allow users to cooperate on the surface by drawing and annotating.

After the meeting is ended, the annotations must be saveable, archived for future reference or for export into GIS tools or other visualization solutions.

Ambition of the challenge

Enhancements to Map Whiteboard based technology

  • API documentation for both WebSockets and REST API
  • Generic authentication options for APIs
  • Stability
  • Error tolerance
  • Reconnect on disconnect
  • Race conditions between edits
  • Generic plugin for OpenLayers based applications
    • Decouple, loosen the demo application from the client-side library and server API
  • Packaging of server application
    • Installation instructions Windows, Linux
    • Deployment

Next steps

  • Start a large scale practical deployment of solution.
  • Integration with teleconference technologies
  • Integration with Hub4Everybody

The registration for the challenges is open! Register for this hackathon challenge HERE.

Invitation to Remote Sensing Webinar

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Whether you are driven by rising input costs to use resources as efficiently as possible or are a fan of modern approaches, we invite you to a webinar on remote sensing in agriculture. We will give individual farmers and more broadly focused professionals a hands-on demonstration of creating application maps from satellite imagery.

The webinar is scheduled on 26/04 at 10 AM CEST.

Venue: virtual
Language: english
Duration: 1 hour

Registration for the webinar is FREE. Register yourself via this link.

Agenda:

10:00 – 10:10 Introduction to Remote Sensing  – Heřman Šnevajs

  • Satellite systems, purpose of remote sensing Sentinel 1,2, Landsat and how they can help to Agriculture
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of systems, how they can help farmers.

10:10 – 10:20 Field borders – Heřman Šnevajs

  • Why we need to detect filed boards or homogenous areas, 
  • Who can be potential customer
  • Prerequisite for further analyses 
  • Identification of homogeneous fields
  • Methods of analysis
  • Unsupervised classification – how it can help and where

10:20 – 10:30 Zoning – Dimitrij Kozukh

  • What are management zones
  • Make your own application map from any (not satellite) image

10:30 – 10:40 Blockchain – Jiří Kvapil 

  • How it can help in Earth Observation segment
  • Sharing and selling spatial data using blockchain

10:40 – 10:55 FarmInsight – A new platform helping farmers with Variable Rate Application – Karel Charvát jr.

  • Integration of previous steps
  • A tool for end users

Webinar will introduce two challenges of AgriHub INSPIRE Hackathon 2022: