SPA500 Precision Agriculture (Technology & Data Acquisition) (8)

The subject covers the strengths and limitations of some of the latest technology used to acquire spatially registered agronomic data for crop management. These include: Global Positioning Systems (GPS), soil and plant sampling for biophysical and chemical status, soil conductivity (electromagnetic soil survey- EMSS, Veris Soil Conductivity-VSC), crop yield mapping and remote sensing.

Subject Outlines
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No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2018.

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Subject Information

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

School of Environmental Sciences

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • Be familiar with the latest in precision agriculturerelated technologies for crop management, their strengths and their limitations;
  • Understand key issues governing spatial and parametric accuracy of measurements acquired by each of the technologies;
  • Understand issues of data management for spatiallyregistered agronomic data.

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:

Global Positioning Systems (GPS): Differential GPS (DGPS), Real-time Kinematic GPS (RTKGPS), accuracy, reliability; Data logging; Measuring & mapping soil characteristics: EM survey, Veris Survey, pit sampling, soil coring; Measuring & mapping plant characteristics: Plant sampling (N,P,K); Measuring & mapping productivity: Yield, Quality parameters; Remote Sensing: Optical, radar & microwave systems for quantitative & qualitative imaging of crop canopy & soil zones.

Residential School

This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.

Contact

Current Students

For any enquiries about subject selection or course structure please contact Student Central or ask@csu.edu.au or phone on 1800 275 278.

Prospective Students

For further information about Charles Sturt University, or this course offering, please contact info.csu on 1800 275 278 (free call within Australia) or enquire online.

The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.

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