This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.
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.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2019.
HD/FL
One session
School of Environmental Sciences
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.
This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.
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The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: May 2019. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.