user needs for environment-smart farming

SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION

User needs towards Galileo and Copernicus to reduce environmental impact of farming.

Tamme van der Wal (AeroVision BV)

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Environmental Challenge

How to feed the world while preserving the planet?

SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION

How can GALILEO and COPERNICUS improve farming?

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Smart Farming

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Image courtesy of sbg.nl


Driver guidance

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Machine guidance

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Why is GNSS a successful application in agriculture?

Because it …• Earns money:

– Fuel savings 10-15%– Higher productivity (per farmer)– Efficient use of resources

• Improves cultivation practices:– Day and Night (peak times)– Less fatigue– Less driving skills needed

• Is simple:– ‘Embodied’ knowledge– Fast learning

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What do we do with GNSS?

Image courtesy of Sytze de Bruin / Leo Klompe

PLANNING

MONITORING

GUIDANCE

TRACKING


GNSS based applications

Position Position, Time Position, Time and Navigation

Production Efficiency

Mapping; Variable Rate Application; Field work optimisation; sampling;

Harvest monitoring; animal tracking;

Machine Guidance;Robotics; UASs

Farm Management

Mapping; Crop Rotation; Daily Planning; contracting.

Farm machine movement; Registration of field work; animal tracking; virtual fencing;

Logistics Unique parcel ID; Track&Trace (produce, livestock, manure, etc.)

Harvest pick-up; Transport.

License to Operate

Mapping; CAP declaration; Area Measurement; Control; Eco Focus

Livestock Welfare in Transport; Spraying logbook;

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10-2 m. 10-1 m. 100 m. 101 m.

RTK CommercialGlobal augmentation

EGNOS UnaugmentedGNSS

Planting,Weeding,Revisiting,harvesting

machineGuidance.

Spraying, spreadingHarvesting bulk crops;Area measurement;Field mapping;Geofencing.

Tracking &Tracing.

Rob Lorimer quote.

GALILEO COMMERCIAL SERVICE


Survey Denmark

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18% of farmers useSome kind of GNSS;

41% RTK

29% EGNOS


Foto’s: Peter Paree (ZLTO)

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Variable Rate Application

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Taskmap

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Satellite 15-08-2011


WDVI 15-08-2011Worldview2

Task Map in board computer


Optical Remote SensingFor operational appliationsRequires a world that looks like this ….


But the world that looks like this ….


Unsuitable for solar power …

This map shows areas that are unsuitable for solar power due to excess cloud cover. These areas also have high risks of clouds preventing to take optical satellite images.


4 SOLUTIONS FOR CLOUDS

RADARMORE

SATELLITES

UAVsCLOSE

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WDVI 19-08-2011UAV

WDVI 15-08-2011Satellite

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GNSS and UAVs

• EGNOS enhanced autopilot;• GNSS based flight box;• Better location of UAV;• Improved mosaicing;

• Deliver taskmaps in ‘digestible’ way;

• UAVs are a SERVICE EXTENSION for satellite imagery.

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Simplify

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Uptake of VRA is still very low

- It is complicated;- It is expensive;- It requires skills, investments, etc.

It requires to change the way farmers work!

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So what????

I need a reliable service(embodied please)


FOCUS on BUSINESS

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FOCUS on BUSINESS

• Building a reliable service• Measure relevant indicators• Translate into valuable advice• Deliver in ‘digestible’ way

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To conclude

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• Legislate use GNSS/RS? Precision agriculture greening measure;

• Open signal/data improves adoption;

• Create incentives: Think benefits, benefits, benefits

• Simplify complexity:Make it easy-to-use


UNIFARM is carried out in the context of the Galileo FP7 R&D programme supervised by the GSA. (nr. 287026). For more information please check

http://www.project-unifarm.eu

Thank you for your attention.

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Tamme van der WalAeroVision BV

[email protected]

http://www.project-unifarm.eu/

user needs for environment-smart farming

Environment

space solutions

kind of gnss

driver guidance

galileo commercial service

digestible way uavs

time position

tracking tracing

service extension