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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 9 May 2016


EFITA newsletter / 737 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

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Montpellier - France at SupAgro Ag University

See: https://www.supagro.fr/
See: http://www.agrotic.org/blog/


Contact : Jean-Pierre CHANET, Bruno TISSEYRE
Mél : jean-pierre.chanet(a)irstea.fr, tisseyre(a)supagro.inra.fr


GW nominated as "Officier du Mérite Agricole" by the French Minister of Agriculture (January 31, 2016)
Congratulations,
Contact: Val REILLY
E-mail: vr269164(a)scarlet.be


My answer (GW): Thank you. I owe this honour to you, to Ian, Mick, Iver, Guido, Gerhart, Karel, Sjaak, Ehud, Pavel, Miguel, Jerzy, Andy, etc.!


My birthday (GW) being born 9 May, 1950
I had very lately the surprise to observe that this was the "Schuman day". I hope all the best for our precious European Union!

Today I participated in a meeting where I expressed my point of view about the liberation of the rural children and women.

Q1 You know when the rural girls got the right to go to schools?
A. When the steel industry was able (around 1830) to produce cheap wire enabling to easily create fences to keep the cattle out of cultivated areas.

Q2: Do you know when the rural women got the liberty to choose their husbands and to leave the rural communities where they were locked and worked very hard in a kind of slavery conditions?
A.: When the industry provided cheap bicycles that enabled them to go to the neighbour village or to the next small town.

Q3. Do you know when women and children were really liberated to very hard works of weeds and pests controls?
A.: When the chemical industry became efficient enough to produce pesticides that freed large propotions of rural people from terrible working conditions.
To be against pesticides means to be against the above described liberation of women and children.

Séminaires

Modelia / Afia

>>> Séance de l'Académie d'Agriculture de France "Réseaux sociaux et Agriculture" (23 mars 2016)
Voir : http://www.academie-agriculture.fr/seances/reseaux-sociaux-et-agriculture?230316

>>> Big Data et Agriculture (10 mars 2016)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/actes-du-seminaire-big-data-du-10-mars-2016/

>>>
API Agro (10 février 2016)
La conférence "API-AGRO", organisée par l'Acta, a rassemblé plus de 150 personnes autour des API et de l'Agriculture Numérique... Revivez la conférence organisée par les partenaires du projet.
Voir : http://www.api-agro.fr/actes-conference/


>>> Réseaux sociaux et Agriculture (19 juin 2015)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/base-documentaire/afia-colloque/2015_-_reseaux-sociaux/#wpfb-cat-87

>>> Open Data en Agriculture - 2ème partie (7 janvier 2015)
Voir : http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=63


>>> Les nouveaux capteurs en Agriculture (19 avril 2014)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/colloques-afia/afia-colloque/2014_-_capteurs/#wpfb-cat-5


>>> Open Data en Agriculture - 1ère partie : état des lieux et perspectives (12 novembre 2013)
Voir : http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=63


>>> La modélisation entre recherche et développement agricole, allers et retours... Des modèles scientifiques aux outils logiciels : ambitions, expériences, réflexions, propriété intellectuelle (29 mars 2013)

Voir :
http://www.modelia.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=35


Contact : Jean-Pierre CHANET, François BRUN
Mél : jean-pierre.chanet(a)irstea.fr, francois.brun(a)acta.asso.fr

The last issue Journal of Agricultural Informatics has been published
The journal is backed by an international editorial board, the Hungarian Association of Agricultural Informatics (HAAI) and the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA).
We hope that the articles find your interest and are looking forward to receiving your suggestions,
and publication interests.

The papers of Journal of Agricultural Informatics (JAI) are refered by CrossRef, DOAJ, Cabi, EBSCO, MATARKA, MTMT, Google Scholar (See on : http://journal.magisz.org/ )

All JAI papers have DOI numbers.

>>> Journal articles of Vol 7, No 1 (2016)

http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/issue/view/15
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/issue/view/15/showToc

>>> The issue of Vol 7, No 1 (2016) in PDF.
http://journal.magisz.org/files/journals/JAI_Vol_7_No_1.pdf

Papers in the Vol 7, No 1 (2016):

Györk Fülöp
Performance of Sentinel-2 data in unsupervised classification: a case study of statistical comparison with Landsat 8 OLI
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/280
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/280/pdf_280

Reda M. M. Tabikha
Impacts of Temporal and Spatial Climatic Changes on Annual Generations of Rhopalosiphum maidis and R. padi (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in Egypt, Using Geographical Information System (GIS)
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/249
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/249/pdf_249

Matthew Tscharke, Thomas M. Banhazi
A brief review of the application of machine vision in livestock behaviour analysis
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/279
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/279/pdf_279

Martin Kjeldsen, Torben Gregersen, Stefan Rahr Wagner, Christian G. V. Břgh, Carsten Nielsen
A system for monitoring real-time body parameters of sows using a lightweight and flexible wireless sensor platform
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/252
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/252/pdf_252

Zeynel Cebeci, Figen Yildiz
Efficiency of Random Sampling Based Data Size Reduction on Computing Time and Validity of Clustering in Data Mining
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/266
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/266/pdf_266

Victor P. Yakushev, Elena V. Kanash
Evaluation of wheat nitrogen status by colorimetric characteristics of crop canopy presented in digital images
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/268
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/268/pdf_268

Fredrick Awuor, George Raburu, ArvinLucy Onditi, Dorothy Rambim
Building E-Agriculture Framework in Kenya
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/244
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/244/pdf_244

Péter Lengyel, István Füzesi, Ádám Péntek, Miklós Herdon
Human resource development using e-learning for Hungarian agricultural experts
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/262
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/262/pdf_262

Bijan Kumar Roy, Subal Chandra Biswas, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
AgriCat: An One-stop Shop for OAI-based Open Access Agricultural Repositories
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/view/277
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/article/download/277/pdf_277

>>> Call for Papers
http://tamop.magisz.org/dokumentumtar/call-jai.pdf
Journal of Agricultural Informatics
http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai

See: http://hermes.agr.unideb.hu/mailman/listinfo/jai-l


Miklós HERDON
(Editor in Chief)
E-mail: JAI-L(a)agr.unideb.hu


When I was young / Today

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Expensive farm equipment is sitting idle on farms around the country. MachineryLink Sharing wants to change that (By Andrea Peterson)
See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/05/06/meet-the-site-that-is-like-uber-but-for-tractors/
See: https://www.machinerylink.com/


Project MARS: Research in the field of agricultural robotics. Precision Farming - Thinking ahead.
MARS stands for Mobile Agricultural Robot Swarms. Or in other words, it stands for agriculture of the future.

They are mobile. They are cloud-controlled. And they are many. They are the field robots of the future from Fendt. As a team, they collaborate in a completely autonomous and efficient way and with high precision. The basic idea is simplification.

How? Fewer sensors, robust control units and a clear hardware structure make each individual MARS robot extremely reliable and productive. At the same time, the use of a large number of small, identical robots operating in a swarm enables smooth running of the job, even in the event of the failure of a single unit.

Their light weight results in a high level of safety and negligible soil compaction. And MARS robots are ready for operation, all around the clock. These aspects combine to make field robotic systems a very attractive alternative for the farmer of the future. This is our vision.
See: http://www.fendt.com/int/11649.asp

 

The bottle of wine

Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road.

As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the Navajo woman whether she would like a ride.

With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car.

Resuming the journey, Sally tried in vain to make a bit of small talk with the Navajo woman. The old woman just sat silently, looking intently at everything she saw, studying every little detail, until she noticed a brown bag on the seat next to Sally.

'What's in the bag?' asked the old woman.

Sally looked down at the brown bag and said, 'It's a bottle of wine.. I got it for my husband.'

The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said: 'Good trade'.

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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
Mick Harkin, ex Secretary of EFITA, who has kept us amused with his Friday Jokes over the years, has published a book on Amazon entitled "Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit".
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