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Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 18 July 2016


EFITA newsletter / 745 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

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Next Efita
Congress
2 - 5 July 2017

Please,
note these dates!

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


VGI (Volunteered geographic information) and Citizen Observatories Inspire Hack
26-30 September - BARCELONA
Current society requires easy, reliable and quick access to environmental information published by various organizations and initiatives. The environment questions cover many activities that produce various sorts of data. They are connected with natural risks and hazards (e.g. floods, forest fires), pollution and contamination of air, soil or water, degradation of landscape (e.g. deforestation, erosion, slide processes), scientific research (ecology, geographical sciences), historical landscape memory (landscape ecological research), education and raising public awareness and business activities (e.g. eco-tourism, ecological farms, ecological food production). Local and community activities capture local knowledge in multimedia forms including videos, photos or oral histories.

The collected information can contribute to up-to-date data. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals. In the context of voluntary data collection, an important part is the way how data are processed. An example can be Neogeography (New Age Geography) focused on combining geotagged data (e.g. KML) with a map interface for contextualised exploration. In Neogeography data can be from volunteers (VGI) or from professionals and can be open or with restricted access.

Neogeography is closely related to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Web 2.0 and mapping capabilities of the geospatial web. VGI and Citizens Observatories INSPIRE Hack will be the first hackathon combined with a INSPIRE conference with the aim to create the space, where those with the interest in the potential of VGI and Citizens Observatories can meet, present their tools and components from existing projects and discuss and explore how results, ideas and knowledge can be combined in possible ways for new projects and for new project ideas.

VGI and Citizens Observatories INSPIRE Hack will run through the first three days of the INSPIRE conference. There might be an option also for continuing the hackathon for the last two days of the conference. The first session will present projects and tools dealing with VGI Information and Citizen Observatories namely: CITI-SENSE, COBWEB, WeSenseIt, SDI4Apps, Open Transport Net, FOODIE The second session will present new projects and project ideas for VGI and Citizens Observatories/Citizen Science – in particular: SCENT - A, Ground Truth 2.0, LandSense, GROW and potentially other ideas from the participants – where it can be seen how.
See: https://www.facebook.com/events/278478842513226/
Contact: Karel CHARVAT
E-mail: charvat(a)wirelessinfo.cz


EIP-AGRI Seminar 'Data revolution
Development of ICT and sensor based technologies, procedures and software have enormously increased the amount of data collected, and available, in agricultural sectors and through the whole supply chain from farm to fork.

On 22-23 June 2016, DG Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) organised a two-day seminar in Sofia (Bulgaria) to explore how this scenario offers potential for new data driven business models in the agri-food sector. “We in Brussels hear a lot about this, but we want to know what’s going on in reality at practical level” Iman Boot from DG AGRI said in his introductory words to the meeting.

During the seminar, which was organised in cooperation with the Institute for Agrostrategies and Innovations in Sofia, a total of 121 participants from 25 countries discussed and shared their different experiences and ideas on data-driven business models, identified the enabling and hampering conditions for those business  models and found potential partners for future cooperation. Furthermore the seminar reflected on which support is available for instance through the rural development policy for the data revolution in the wide agri-food sector.

“It’s very valuable to understand how organisations work in different countries and industries and also what kinds of issues they have”, commented one participant, while a colleague stressed the benefits of  “sharing experience on other EU countries, getting information for setting-up OGs and networking for international partnership”.

During the seminar 43 participants presented and discussed with the audience their own data driven business cases or ideas in a speed date market. This session offered the presenters the chance of benefiting from the seminar participants as sparring partners to discuss or enrich their idea or subject, or to identify potential future collaborators.

Click here for more information about the seminar, including all presentations and supporting documents.
See: https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/news/eip-agri-seminar-data-revolution
See: https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/Seminar_Data_Revolution

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

With accuracy better than 4 centimeters, Trimble® CenterPoint® RTX can reduce overspray by 95%, transforming how you work in the field
See: http://www.trimble.com/Positioning-Services/CenterPoint-RTX.aspx


John Deere announces software release for Operations Center (from Crop News Weekly)
Just in time for harvest, John Deere is offering enhancements to its Operations Center system. The upgrade adds new features including Variety Locator, which detects the crop variety being harvested; and Harvest ID, Cotton Maps, which make it easy to identify module locations and track cotton quality back to where it was grown.
The system also gets Tillage Maps and Speed Maps - new data layers you can use to analyze yield and productivity trends on your operation.
Here are more details on the upgrade:
• Variety Locator - Allows usage of Variety Locator information (documented when planting) to enable the John Deere in-cab display in the combine to automatically detect and document the crop variety being harvested.
• Tillage and Speed Maps - Assists in the evaluation of the performance of tillage operations with documentation maps on target depth (GreenStar™ 3 2630 Display only). Enhances insight into which variables affect yield with speed maps for seeding and tillage operations.
• John Deere Harvest ID, Cotton Maps - Improves traceability of where each cotton module is harvested and leads to better correlation between input decisions and cotton quality.
• Draw Field Boundaries and Freeform Zones - Released in April, Operations Center now allows new fields to be added by manually drawing boundaries, which can be sent to the in-cab display as an operational boundary. Also added to the Prescription Creator by Agrian® is the ability to create freeform zones when building prescriptions based off of soil or harvest maps.
See: https://www.deere.ca/en_CA/corporate/our_company/news_and_media/press_releases/2016/agriculture/2016july7-operations-ctr-software.page


Track farms year-round with new website (from Crop News Weekly)
FMC has launched Grow Forward, a fungicide website with season-long updates from plots in 10 states. The website has information from plots in key corn and soybean areas in the country, which is important since FMC has gone from a few fungicides in its portfolio to a long list with its integration of Cheminova into the mix. And many of the fungicides are new, so the company wants to show them in action.
Fungicide plots have been established in Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. The plots will feature an early foliar application of Topguard fungicide or Preemptor SC fungicide. Plot-specific information and updates will be posted throughout the growing season. In addition, the company plans a series of livestream events you can watch online.
See: http://fmcgrowforward.com


Insight on data ownership
Jason Tatge is not a newcomer to ag data, the founder of Farmobile has long been an advocate that farmers should own their data, and profit from it. He's written a fascinating blog in Tech Crunch that farmers should read. While Farm Industry News advocates the value of aggregating data for better management, you want to maximize the value of your data no matter where it's used. Get Tatge's perspective.
See: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/06/the-land-grab-for-farm-data/


Internet of Things is more than a fridge with pictures
So often when the general media talks about the Internet of Things, they go right to the fridge, and Samsung does now have a refrigerator that takes a picture of what's inside and makes it available for you to download at the store to see what you might need (of course no one's refrigerator is that organized). But that's now where this technology move is going. The folks at our sister site ioti.com have a story that looks into the fact that IoT is about to make a big shift - think smart cities, smart manufacturing and you'll see the true value of this.
By the way, any farmer using the cloud to save/share/manage information is playing in the Internet of Things space. If your machine is a connected machine you're in IoT.Catch up on some of the potential benefits…
See: http://www.ioti.com/iot-trends-and-analysis/iot-about-shift-ludicrous-mode

 


Chappatte on the Bastille Day Attack in Nice, France (NYT)
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We in France must face terrorism without losing our soul - Nathalie GOULET
After the massacre in Nice, if the republic is ever to bring its lost children back into the fold it must resist any further suspension of civil liberties.
(...)
France, along with many other countries, is facing the most challenging time of its history. How do you fight against terrorism when you live in a democracy? It is possible - and it has to be done without losing your soul.
See: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/17/france-terrorism-massacre-nice


Brexit

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Ex-Ghostwriter über Trump"Ich habe Lippenstift auf ein Schwein gemalt"
Sehen: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/ghostwriter-tony-schwartz-nennt-donald-trump-einen-soziopathen-a-1103644.html


Excellent (very) short joke: Historical fact

Who says building a border wall won't work?

The Chinese built one over 2,000 years ago, and they still don't have any Mexicans.

Provided by Luc BECKER
Mél : luc.becker(a)wanadoo.fr

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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
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