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Data Analysis Considerations and Procedures for Site-Specific Crop Management

 

Part 1Understanding Mapped Data and Basic Analysis Approaches

 

Part 2Identifying Spatial Relationships in Agricultural Data

 

Underlying Concerns and Considerations in Remote Sensing of Crop Type and Condition

 

Part 1Aerial Remote Sensing Applications in Agriculture

 

Part 2In-Field Remote Sensing Applications in Agriculture

 

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Data Analysis Considerations and Procedures for Site-Specific Crop Management <download Word documents—Part 1 and Part 2>

 

Joseph K. Berry, Columnist for @gInnovator Newsletter, Meredith Publishing

President, Berry and Associates // Spatial Information Systems

2000 South College Avenue, Suite 300, Fort Collins, CO 80525

Phone: 970-215-0825  Email: jberry@innovativegis.com 

Website: www.innovativegis.com/basis

  Mapping yield, soil, terrain and other conditions is becoming commonplace on many farms.  The maps help producers visualize the variation in their fields, but rarely analyzed to their full potential.  Emerging data analysis techniques extend graphic interpretation to data analysis and provide insight into important relationships within and among the mapped data.  This presentation describes a series of grid-based analysis techniques designed to highlight unusual areas in a field, identify significant differences between maps and develop important relationships between one map, such as yield, and other maps, such as soil conditions and micro-terrain.  A case study will serve to illustrate the considerations and procedures used in site-specific management of agricultural crops.

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Underlying Concerns and Considerations in Remote Sensing of Crop Type and Condition <download Word documents—Part 1 and Part 2>

 

Joseph K. Berry, Columnist for @gInnovator Newsletter, Meredith Publishing

President, Berry and Associates // Spatial Information Systems

2000 South College Avenue, Suite 300, Fort Collins, CO 80525

Phone: 970-215-0825  Email: jberry@innovativegis.com 

Website: www.innovativegis.com/basis

                                                                                             

David K. Wright, Graduate Student

Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University

Research and Development, Red Hen Systems, Inc. Fort Collins, CO 80525

ultralite2_sm.jpg (7405 bytes)  Remote sensing (RS) of crops promises to revolutionize the monitoring of crop status and conditions.  Recent advances in satellite, aircraft and proximal data collection, coupled with geographic information systems (GIS) technology and the Internet provide a wealth of new information sources and ways of visualizing and analyzing these data.  This presentation will investigate the nature of RS data, crop physiology factors affecting the data, and considerations in data analysis and interpretation.  An ongoing study using a multispectral video mapping system in monitoring crop nitrogen will serve to illustrate the important concerns and considerations in remote sensing of agricultural crops.

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These @gInnovator Online materials are based on an invited presentation for the Agriculture Discipline Forum, MidAmerica GIS Symposium on “Strengthening theGrowing Geodata Community,” Osage Beach, Missouri, May 14-18, 2000.