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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 16 December 2013 EFITA newsletter / 630 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment A thought for today For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson MANDELA A second one In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance. - Johann Wolfgang VON GOETHE 
Second International Conference on Robotics and associated High-technologies and Equipment for Agriculture and forestry (RHEA) 21-23 May 2014 - MADRID, Spain. The Conference will focus on new trends in mobile robotics, perception and actuation for agriculture and forestry. Event structure: RHEA-2014 is a special International Conference that provides to attendees from research centers, universities, and companies the opportunity of being present at the final RHEA project demonstration. - The first day will be devoted to the RHEA project: final demo and technical tutorials. - The second and third days will have the format of an international conference focused on presentations and discussions of papers. Conference topics… Topics may include, but are not limited to: - Automated machines for weed control and crop protection - Sensing in precision agriculture - Remote sensing in precision agriculture - GNSS, guidancesystems and machinery - Robotics and new technologies - Fleets of robots and new vehicles for the city centre with which it is connected by precision agriculture and forestry - Planning and fleet management - Management, modelling and decision support systems - ICT technologies in precision agriculture and forestry - Emerging issues in precision agriculture and forestry Further publication. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for publication in: Precision Agriculture (ISSN:0168-1699); Industrial Robot ISSN: 0143-991X); Sensors (ISSN: 01424-8220) See: http://www.rhea-conference.eu/2014/ Contact: José Manuel PEÑA-BARRAGÁN E-mail: rhea-2014(a)rhea-conference.eu Growing The Use Of Drones In Agriculture See: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml MultiCopter Videos See: http://www.kkmulticopter.kr/index.html?modea=video Data Management at the Farm Level: 2013 Update “Big Data” is the talk of the agricultural community today. While precision agriculture has seen significant adoption in the United States since the mid-1990s, agriculture is just embarking on the fringe of data management in which machine and agronomic data are being collected and stored on the web using servers or cloud technology. Analytical tools are being developed to draw site-specific information and new knowledge for farmers from this information. The evolution of this data management movement will allow growers, ag retailers, crop consultants, machinery manufacturers, and others in the ag community to learn more about crop production at an accelerated pace compared to the past and will be a critical contributor to meeting the future food demand for the growing world population. See: http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-2057/ANR-2057.pdf See: http://www.aces.edu/anr/precisionag/index.php Messenger Wars: How Facebook lost its lead See: http://fr.slideshare.net/OnDevice/messenger-wars-how-facebook-lost-its-lead Enter into the 4th Industrial Revolution See: http://fr.slideshare.net/DassaultSystemes/enter-into-the-4th-industrial-revolution-28626426 How could Séralini's GM study have made suckers of so many people? The retraction last week by the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology of the widely criticised anti-GM research paper commonly referred to as “the Séralini paper” no doubt left many in the science community and food industry around the world rightly... See: http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/How-could-Seralini-s-GM-study-have-made-suckers-of-so-many-people (Funny!) list of fake Confucius sayings See: http://www.1emulation.com/forums/topic/16894-list-of-fake-confucius-sayings/
Brain working… or not working… To All My Intelligent Friends: Keep that brain working; see if you can figure out what these seven words all have in common? 1. Banana 2. Dresser 3. Grammar 4. Potato 5. Revive 6. Uneven 7. Assess Give it another try... Look at each word carefully. You'll kick yourself when you discover the answer. This is so cool... Remember I only sent this to my smart friends. Now don't let me down. No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters... Answer is below! Answer: In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word. Did you figure it out? No? Then send this to more people and stump them as well. Then, you'll feel better too The distribution of this efita newsletter is sponsored by vitisphere.com Please, contribute to the content of your efita newsletter, and advertise your events, new publications, new products and new project in this newsletter. Without your support, it will not survive! Contact: Guy WAKSMAN E-mail: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net To read this newsletter on our web site See: http://www.informatique-agricole.org/gazette/efita/efita_131216_630.htm
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