Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering

Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural University of Athens

Organisation type: 
University
Country: 
Greece

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Expertise: ICT in primary

Expertise: ICT in primary production, crop and livestock farming, precision agriculture

Facility: The relevant facilities are an RTK- GPS to produce elevation maps; EM38 for ECa mapping; CropCircle for NDVI mapping during the growing season, 3 drones carrying multispectral and thermal camera; a multispectral and a thermal camera for crop monitoring scanning; leaf water potential instrument; soil water content measurmement probes; soil pepnetrometer; wireless water mesurment system; software for GIS analysis and geostatistical analysis, as well as two yield monitoring systems for cereals and cotton.

Priority: (1) The application of precision agriculture technology and management strategies for high value crops and livestock production, mainly for sheep and goats. (2) The analysis and design of sound farm management information systems for information intensive agricultural practices, such as precision agriculture and robotics.