GIS – Barrier to Adoption? Data Collection – Analysis - Informed Management

Southern Precision Naracoorte SA APPLYING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY - Independently sourcing and applying innovative products to improve on-farm practices & profitability

Southern Precision Pty Ltd established in 2006

Trimble Reseller since 2007 (GPS Guidance, Auto Steer & Machine Control)

Working with NDVI sensors since inception (Greenseeker & Weedseeker)

Ebee RTK UAV (drone) acquired in February 2015

Farm RGB & multispectral, land surface and survey grade civil mapping

Southern Precision – GIS Packages

- FarmWorks (Trimble Ag Software)

- TracMap

- Global Mapper

- Google Earth

- ATLAS

- Pix4D

- Emotion

- Manifold

- Propeller

- QGIS

Despair ???????

PV Recommendation

ESRI - ArcInfo

Definition – what is GIS?

Geographic Information Systems

ESRI – Environmental Systems Research Institute (1969)

A digital representation of the real world

Enables presentation, assessment, analytics etc. of spatial info.

Data collection – points, lines, polygons, raster, grid

Data presented in layers

“Attributes” can be compared and cross referenced in space

So what kinds of vineyard items, events, features would we want to present?

Points – Lines - Polygons Examples from my personal experience...

Sampling locations (moisture probes, crop estimate and maturity sampling)

High vigour or high “potential” vines (SPAA Factsheet)

Underperforming vines

Disease Infection & severity (investigation of causal relationships)

Broken Posts (efficiency, accurate budgeting, targeted installation)

Dripper Blowouts (easy to return to the same location)

Weeds (proclaimed weeds, multi – season treatment, area to spray)

Location of Infrastructure (reduce time wastage, proximity alarms)

Reporting (VR application, coverage maps, spray diaries)

Whatever you need or can imagine...

• 84 vines required training

• location identified

• Primarily in west of vineyard... why?

• Prioritise effort & estimate cost – all without leaving the desk and data collected for free

Points – Lines - Polygons

Points – Lines - Polygons

Points – Lines – Polygons Applying Point Measures*

1.2ha

2.5ha

Points – Lines – Polygons Vineyard Zones*

Points – Lines – Polygons Vineyard Zones

Point attributes

1.2ha

2.5ha

Points – Lines – Polygons - Mapping Yield, Maturity, Quality

Yield Estimates – weighted average

1.2ha @ 3T\ha

2.5ha @ 10T\ha Weighted Average 3.7ha @ 7.7T\ha =

May follow through to Quality\Maturity…

• Canopy Microclimate • Shoots per metre (vine size) • Crop load

Points – Lines – Polygons - Mapping Yield, Maturity, Quality

1.2ha

2.5ha

Making it work – choosing a GIS Package Consider your needs…

Will you be actively collecting data? What type?

Will you be doing any analysis i.e. visual trends, gross margin mapping?

Will you be creating coverage maps or looking at vehicle telemetry?

Will you be using imagery or continuous rasters i.e. yield maps?

Budget, tools, compatibility – inputs\outputs

Making it work – GIS Packages

GIS Requires a commitment of time and resources…

Simple to use platforms

https://www.micasense.com/atlas/

https://www.propelleraero.com/

http://www.platfarm.com/

Because there’s more important things to be getting on with!

The Future…

“What we’re doing is trying to make the technology fully autonomous and develop the right algorithms so we can not only capture the information, but understand it.”

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/features/digital-vineyards

The Future…

Thank you