Welcome
CAPIGI is the network for geo-information experts active in agriculture. The Community on Agricultural Policy Implementation and Geo-Information (CAPIGI) brings together governments, industry and research to discuss the impact of geo-information in implementing agricultural policy. CAPIGI presents a state-of-the-art overview on innovations and research in geo-information sciences. These emerging technologies get illustrated with practice experiences in agricultural policy implementation.
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Newsletter
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Keeping a Cap on CAP
With reform of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) due to begin next year, the focus on agriculture in this month's GeoConnexion's issue is a timely reminder of editor Peter FitzGibbon of the role that geoinformation plays in mechanisms that pay annual subsidies worth EUR 55 billion to more than seven million beneficiaries. The most significant of these mechanisms, operated since 1993 by accredited agencies in the Member States, he says, is the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS)... an electronic register which ensure that direct payments to farmers are made correctly, irregularities prevented, and amounts unduly paid recovered.
Postdoc Hyperspectral Datasets UAS
The Dutch Wageningen University is looking for a post-doc holding a PhD degree in science or engineering to work on the project ‘Smart Aerial Rest Rigs with Infrared Spectrometers and Radar' (SMART INSPECTORS), funded by the INTERREG IVA program Deutschland-Nederland. The project is aiming at the development of a remote sensing infrastructure using state-of-the-art sensors on Unmanned Aerial Platforms (UAP) for environmental applications (e.g., precision agriculture, habitat monitoring, erosion control). Within the project, research organisations and companies are cooperating to bring fundamental research to operational applications.
Agenda
Workshop Farm Experiences 24-25 May
The workshop focuses on the adoption of precision guidance technologies at two farms in southern Sweden. The applications include: Controlled Traffic Farming, Conservation Agriculture Practises, Strip Tillage and Direct Drilling. The themes will be introduces by international experts. The workshop is arranged by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences jointly with the group CTF Europe and the ISTRO working group on Controlled Traffic Farmers. Whether researcher, advisor, farmer or from the farm machinery industry, you are most welcome to join for inspiration on future farming practices for either one or both days.
Smart AgriMatics 2012 13-14 June 2012
Smart AgriMatics is a joint conference of three projects funded by the European Commission, under the 7th Framework Programme. The three projects who organise the conference are agriXchange, ICT-AGRI ERA-NET and SmartAgriFood. The commonality between these projects is that from different perspectives they all deal with the future use of ICT and robotics in the agri-food sector, which will be the focus. CAPIGI will be present at this conference.
Latest News
- 03 May 2012 Keeping a Cap on CAP
- 03 May 2012 Postdoc Hyperspectral Datasets UAS
- 25 April 2012 Race for More Spectral Resolution
- 19 April 2012 Envisat Services Interrupted
- 17 April 2012 Geodetic technologies in Precision Farming
