NCERA-180 Site-Specific Crop Management

2007 Meeting --- 4-6 January

Holiday Inn Maingate West, Kissimmee, Florida

Thursday 4 January 2007 --- Bus Tour  - CLICK HERE TO SEE FIELD TRIP PICTURES

 8:30    Bus leaves from hotel

                 Visit citrus processing plant

                 Visit Citrus Research and Education Center (http://www.crec.ifas.ufl.edu/)

                 Demonstrations of SSCM equipment and techniques for citrus

                 Lunch

                 Visit large supermarket chain fruit and vegetable warehouse

                 Visit citrus grove during harvest

5:30     Bus returns to hotel

Friday 5 January 2007 --- NCERA-180 Meeting

Special Concentration on Statistics and Simulation Modeling

8:45     Spatial Statistical Analysis for Precision Agriculture (Jeffrey Willers, USDA-

                    ARS, MS)

• Assembling the Spatial Information to Provide a Data Set for Statistical Analyses of Precision Agriculture (24.6 MB)

• Using Spatial Information in the Design and Analysis of Experiments Used to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Precision Agriculture Management Systems (4.9 MB)

• Using Spatial Information in Precision Agriculture Management of Cotton (5.7 MB)

• Spatial Information and the Design and Analysis of Site-specific Experiment in Commercial Cotton Fields (16.4 MB)

• Custom Application Extension for Imagine® for Precision Agriculture Management of Cotton (14.1 MB)

10:45   Spatial Variability in Crop Simulation Modeling Inputs (Jim Jones, University of Florida) (6.4 MB)

1:00     International Precision Agriculture Conferences (formerly Minnesota

                        Conference):  History, Goals, Future (Raj Khosla, Colorado State)

Special Presentation on Site-Specific Crop Management

2:00     Residuals and Year-to-Year Variable in Precision Agriculture (Donald Bullock,

                        University of Illinois) (3.0 MB)

3:30     Technical Presentation:  Management Zone Delineation for Iron Chlorosis

                        Management (Richard Ferguson, University of Nebraska) (22.6 MB)

4:00     Industry Updates

                        Eric Lund                                Veris (7.5 MB)

                        William Rudolph                     Spraying Systems (12.6 MB)

                        Tony DiPolina                         GeoAgro (6.7 MB)

                        Nyle Wollenhaupt                   AGCO

                        Harold Reetz                           Foundation for Agricultural Research (2.6 MB)

5:00     Committees:  PM-54, A-8, etc. (Tim Stombaugh, University of Kentucky; Newell

            Kitchen, USDA-ARS, MO; attendees)

• 2nd Asian Conference on Precision Agriculture

  • Date: August 2-4, 2007

  • Place: Pyeongtaek, Korea

  • More Information: http://www.precisionag.or.kr  

Saturday 6 January 2007 --- NCERA-180 Meeting

8:00     Mission, Vision, Role, and Products of NCERA-180:  A Detailed Discussion of

                        the Future of SSCM and Our Efforts (Discussion Leader:  John Schueller

                        University of Florida)

9:30     Books, Journals, Specialty Initiatives (Francis Pierce, Washington State; Newell

                        Kitchen, USDA-ARS, MO) (0.8 MB)

Concentration on Remote Sensing

10:30   Remote Sensing ET Maps for Identifying Management Zones (David Clay, South

                        Dakota State) (1.6 MB)

11:00   Remote Sensing for N Management in Corn (David Mulla, University of

                        Minnesota) (19.6 MB)

11:30   Processing of Mandarin Leaf Multispectral Reflectance Data for Retrieval of Leaf

                        Water Potential Information (Janos Kriston-Vizi, Kyoto University) (5.4 MB)

• Movie 1

• Movie 2

• Movie 3

12:00   ISHS Precision Ag Meeting (Reza Ehsani, University of  Florida)

• Date: January 6-9, 2008

• Place: Grosvenor Resort, Orlando, Florida

• More information: http://www.PrecisionAg2008.com

 

 

 

Updated: January 16, 2007