Precision Agriculture

Objectives (aimed learning outcome)?

The objective is to teach the students the technologies used in the application of a system of precision agricu;ture in the crops.

 

 

Code (Course ID)

1.4

ECTS Units

7.5

Semester

1st

Level

Basic

Hours per week

3

Hours per semester

4 hours Χ 13 weeks

 

Other prerequisites

No

 

Teaching method

Lectures, laboratory, exercises, writen essays (1-2)

Teaching language

Greek - English

 

Instructor

Name

T.A. Gemtos

Teaching Rank

Professor

Office

Laboratory of Farm Mechanisation

Tel. / e-mail

+302421093228 /gemtos@agr.uth.gr

Other Teaching Staff

Dr. Sp. Fountas, Adjunct lecturer (No. 407/1980), elected Assistant Professor

 

Contents

  • Conventional agriculture and problems, field variability and its management
  • Technologies used in precision agriculture (GPS, GIS, sensors, remote sensing)
  • Applications in assessing variability (yield mapping, ECa mapping, soil maps)
  • Analysis of variability, geostatistics, special and temporal variability, management zones alienation
  • Variable rate application technology
  • Economics of precision agriculture
  • Decision support systems for precision agriculture

 

Laboratories

Yield mapping in cotton and in cereals

Yield maps production and development

Using multispectral cameras

 

Assessment

Lectures

     Final written exams                                                                                                         60%

     Written assay (report)                                                                                                     40%

 

Suggested Literature

CIGR Handbook of Agricultural Engineering Volume VI: Information Technology (2007) ASABE, St. Joseph, Michigan, USA

Papers from journals, conferences etc