Machine Guidance
The session on Machine Guidance on 5 April CAPIGI 2011 was chaired by Jens Fehrmann from the Universität Dresden brought a different set of very informative talks on daily life aspects of machines like safe agriculture to a project studie of FarmPilot, followed by a data collection story.
Cesare Fantuzzi from the Engineering Faculty of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia opened the session with his talk on Geo-Information for Safe Agriculture. His presentation is found here:
Geo-information for safe agriculture
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After that presentation Carolin Heldt, Product Manager FarmPilot at Arvato Systems GmbH informed the audience with her presentation to FarmPilot and Future Challenges. Her presentation can be viewed here:
FarmPilot - online portal for agriculture
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The third speaker was Thinus Glitz from CLAAS Agrosystems. He spoke about mobile data collection and data management in modern agriculture. Although the talk was mainly on CLAAS' products the talk lead to lots of questions and a good discussion on sharing data. Companies collect a lot of data that can be of interest to others. Someone wondered if CLAAS with governments discusses how to share this information to make it of use for different purposes. The presenter replied that the farmers are the actual owners of the data and that they don't share this info with third parties. "The only time", someone from the audience added to the discussion, "companies share info, is in case of a research project like for example iGreen where they have made special arrangements regarding this subject". The audience jointly stated that they think this is a real pity and believe that they should more work together. The discussion ended with a clear statement saying that a farmer should not be afraid to share his data, but he should get something in return for sharing the information.
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