Agriculture

A research team from Skoltech and Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation have presented a paper in which they pioneered an alternative method for detecting decayed and moldy apples at the post-harvest stage, when fruits are stored and then delivered to the customer. A computer vision system will determine different defects at the early stage, ...

Trimble and Sabanto have announced the integration of Trimble BX992 Dual Antenna GNSS receivers with Trimble CenterPoint® RTX into Sabanto’s autonomy solutions. Trimble will act as Sabanto’s key autonomous technology provider, delivering high-accuracy positioning to its fleet. Farmers need the highest level of uptime and reliability to avoid service disruption. Leveraging Trimble’s BX992 GNSS receiver ...

La Bolsa de Cereales de Córdoba (BCCBA), con el apoyo e infraestructura de IDECOR, presentó sus mapas de siete cultivos en la provincia de Córdoba. Concretamente, se trata de información georreferenciada de la superficie sembrada de los cultivos de alfalfa, garbanzo, girasol, maíz, maní, soja y sorgo en territorio cordobés. La producción y publicación de ...

Un innovador estudio que utiliza datos satelitales abiertos ayudará a desarrollar un modelo que integra la presencia de insectos polinizadores y la restauración de predios agrícolas. El estudio es de Laura Pérez, doctora en Ecología y Biología Evolutiva y postdoctorante de Data Observatory, Centro ANID, quien desarrolla hasta el 2025 esta investigación para una mejor ...

El inmenso trabajo fue encabezado por el Consejo Federal de Inversiones (CFI) junto con COVIAR y permite consultar cada perfil geológico y climático del país, mediante una plataforma de acceso libre ya disponible. Identificar todas las variables climatológicas y geológicas de cada rincón del país en donde crece una uva no solo es posible, sino ...

La producción de papa, uno de los tubérculos más importantes para la canasta básica diaria familiar de los colombianos, además de presentar desafíos como el incremento de los costos de transporte e insumos para su cultivo que afectan el bolsillo de los productores, es constantemente vulnerable a que la sobreoferta, producto muchas veces de la ...

Un enfoque que destaca la conservación de la diversidad floral natural como base para la alimentación de las abejas melíferas, es el que tiene el proyecto “Sensores remotos y apicultura natural regenerativa”, que desde 2022 desarrollan investigadores de INIA Quilamapu en la región de Ñuble. El investigador y director del proyecto, Marcelino Claret, indicó que ...

In the southwest of Colombia lies the department of Nariño, known for its majestic mountains that give rise to one of the world’s most excellent coffees, thanks to its unique qualities and characteristics. However, these same mountains represent a considerable challenge for agricultural supply chains in the region. In the scientific article entitled “Evaluation of ...

Scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators from Shihezi University (Xinjiang, China) and University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada), have proposed a cotton mapping strategy and provided high-resolution cotton maps throughout Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Xinjiang is the leading and largest cotton production region ...

As cornfields suffer crop damage caused by weather, corn producers can use geospatial and remote sensing technologies to get a more accurate measurement of the damage and estimate potential economic loss, according to a recent study published in Frontiers in Agronomy. In the study, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ...

WaPOR, as it is widely known, is expanding its geospatially driven coverage to the whole world, following six years of successful use in Africa and the Near East. The new and improved version was launched today at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) at the 2nd Rome Water Dialogue and on ...

With many people around the world suffering from various forms of malnutrition it’s important that the absolute basics such as rice, soya and wheat are as nourishing as possible. ESA-funded research shows that the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission and the Italian Prisma mission could be used to monitor the nutritional content of staple crops. This could, ...

RUDN University ecologists found a parameter in satellite images that allows accurately calculating and increasing the wheat yield. Such technology helps agronomists monitor crops and make decisions. These results were published in The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science. Low crop yields are usually associated with disturbances in agro-climatic conditions, improper or untimely ...

Trimble and Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications company, are partnering to install a new Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) network to provide Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) correction services across the country. Available to users as an annual subscription service, the new network will be built using Trimble’s hardware and software positioning technology, which provides customers ...

A Empresa de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural de Minas Gerais (Emater-MG) está realizando um mapeamento pioneiro das áreas ocupadas com a citricultura em Campanha, no Sul do estado. O trabalho de georreferenciamento, que poderá servir de modelo para outros municípios mineiros, é um cruzamento de diversas informações geradas por satélites, por imagens feitas por ...

Tarım ve Orman Bakanı İbrahim Yumaklı, Türkiye Arıcılık Haritası’nın güncellendiğini belirterek, “Böylece arıcılarımız, illerin flora çeşitliliği ile bitkilerin çiçeklenme dönemlerine, bal ormanı alanları ile kovan kapasitelerine ulaşma imkanı bularak arılarını hangi bölgeye, hangi dönemde, hangi çiçek için götüreceklerini belirleyebilecekler” dedi. Bakanlığa bağlı Hayvancılık Genel Müdürlüğü tarafından arıcılığın geliştirilmesi ve bal üretiminin artırılması amacıyla projelendirilen ve ...

Real-time crop monitoring has become increasingly important, particularly for addressing climate-induced losses and damages, as discussed during the last United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (CoP27). Initiatives like GEOGLAM and the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) have traditionally contributed to monitoring global food security by relying on existing data ...

Metodologia pioneira, desenvolvida com suporte da Inteligência Artificial (IA), permitiu o alcance de um nível de acurácia de até 97%, quando aplicada em análises de imagens de satélite do Cerrado do município de Sorriso (MT), um dos principais produtores agrícolas do País. A acurácia é um aspecto relevante nos levantamentos realizados por meio de sensoriamento ...

As growing seasons become hotter and drier across the region, farmers are increasingly challenged to grow and sustain their crops. Now Oregon State University is close to launching a dry farming map project. Lucas Nebert, a research associate at OSU, heads the project. He told KLCC that a lot of farmers are interested in alternatives ...

Con el objetivo de conocer a la brevedad cuáles son las zonas agrícolas del centro-sur del país que están inundadas a causa del sistema frontal, la subsecretaria de Agricultura, Ignacia Fernández, instruyó al Centro de Información de Recursos Naturales (CIREN), coordinar el procesamiento de imágenes satelitales y la entrega de información geoespacial, a través del ...

“Currently, we utilize Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data to inform our inflation policy, but in order to enhance our inflation analysis, we need to augment our data sources. This is particularly important in the case of rice, our staple, and amid volatile weather,” NEDA Officer in Charge Assistant Director Rory Jay S.C. Dacumos said in ...

Las tecnologías de inteligencia artificial que permiten “entrenar” un sistema para que sea capaz de diferenciar entre tierras ocupadas por viñedos y aquellas que no lo están serán utilizadas por la Xunta para actualizar la información sobre parcelas vitícolas. Hasta ahora son los técnicos los que tienen que comprobar y, en su caso, descartar las ...

La importancia de la gestión del conocimiento en las empresas agropecuarias cada vez tiene más relevancia al momento de tomar decisiones. La evolución de la agricultura en los últimos años, el aumento de la información y las nuevas tecnologías generan una oportunidad para hacer más eficiente la producción agropecuaria, pero sistematizar y ordenar todos los ...

El consorcio del grupo operativo ‘MoniCa’, formado por el Departamento de Geografía Física y Análisis Geográfico Regional de la Universidad de Sevilla (US), Emergya Grupo, Asaja-Cádiz y CTA (Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía), ha recibido financiación para este proyecto de la Consejería de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Rural de la Junta de Andalucía, con cargo a ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled a geospatial product called Crop Sequence Boundaries (CSB) that offers public access to national-scale visual crop rotation data for the first time. The new tool was developed by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and Economic Research Service (ERS), two of the department’s statistical scientific research agencies. CSB is ...

Recent bipartisan legislation aims to make satellite communication and PNT services more available to farmers. Legislation that nudges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to do more to make satellite communication and PNT services available to rural America, particularly farmers, has sailed through the House and is awaiting committee action in the Senate. The bipartisan legislation—something ...

Agricultural pesticide use has resulted in increased quantity and quality of produced foodstuffs, but at a cost—these pesticides can have negative, and not fully understood, impacts on human and ecosystem health. Some pesticide application techniques can result in product being transported away from the farm fields and onto proximal locations, causing concerns about exposures should ...

Sentinel-1 es un satélite de observación de la Tierra desarrollado por la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA), que utiliza tecnología de radar de apertura sintética (SAR, por sus siglas en inglés) para adquirir imágenes de la superficie terrestre. Y gracias a sus registros, el Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA) elaboró mapas satelitales que visualizan las zonas ...

ENEA ha realizzato una mappa del potenziale agrivoltaico nazionale su scala regionale in grado di supportare le PA nella pianificazione dello sviluppo del settore. Elaborata da un team di ricercatori del Centro Ricerche ENEA di Portici su criteri di minimizzazione dell’uso del suolo e ottimizzazione della produzione energetica e agricola, la mappa è ora in ...

Se trata de una organización española independiente y sin ánimo de lucro, que responde a la necesidad de promover la Agricultura de Precisión y facilitar la transformación digital agrícola en España, en línea con las directrices de sostenibilidad definidas por la Unión Europea. Rrealizará actividades enmarcadas en tres grandes ámbitos: transferencia, iniciativas científico-técnicas y actividades ...