A group of ERMES researchers will take part in the workshop titled “Precision Agriculture: the added value of geo-information and LBS” in Vienna (Austria) on 21 April 2015.

The meeting is co-organised by Eurisy and Boku (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna).

Information on soil parameters (humidity, fertilizer content, crop maturity or disease) derived from Earth Observation satellites has already been used successfully by farmers to reduce water consumption and fertilizer use, with no reduction in yield. Using satellite navigation systems to guide farming machinery has become almost standard practice in some European countries (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands). While the technology has been proved to work, the innovative services related to the technology are currently emerging, and not yet in use on a sufficiently large scale, given their added value. The development of GNSS applications relative to EO applications is often treated separately, even though the technologies have more impact together than separately, when applied to the same problems.

 Click here for the programme and the on-line registration.