Speaker: James V. Krogmeier, Purdue University
Abstract: With widespread projections that humanity needs to double world crop production in the next 50 years, the search for environmentally sound and economically sustainable food production will be of enduring importance. Many challenges face us: land and water are scarce, topsoil is at risk from poor tillage practices, herbicide resistance is increasing, margins are tight, and an evolving climate may unfavorably raise the weather-related risks of farming. Many hope that agricultural big data and analytics will figure prominently in the search for future farming systems that can meet these challenges.
In this talk I will discuss some of the work of our Purdue research group concerning hardware and software for emerging ag IoT, meta data sensing, an open source project for ag data sharing, and signal/image processing for multi-year crop yield data and spatial management zone estimation. In addition, I will try to place this work in the context of the much larger body of research at Purdue and elsewhere.