REMOTE SENSING DATA CAN GIVE FARMERS IMPORTANT INFORMATION...
News release... Germany is getting a lot of rain in these days of March. Farmers who want to cultivate their fields are therefore faced with an important question: How wet is it in the fields? Can they be driven over with heavy equipment or is it better to wait and see? In this case it would be ideal to send a drone with special sensors across the field. And to quickly generate maps from the data obtained, which the farmer can then use on his cell phone or laptop to assess the soil moisture on his fields on a small scale. This is just one of the scenarios that the new AgriSens research network is working on. Together with farmers, the scientists involved have defined various applications in which digital technologies would be helpful. These include planning irrigation or making harvest forecasts using satellite data. The starting signal for the network was given by the German Minister of Agriculture, Julia Klöckner, on March 9, 2020 in Berlin: She presented the funding decisi...