Field operations relating to arable farming are often very data-intensive tasks. The farm business, farm supply chain and public regulations are tied, and consist of quantitative data
about crops, soils, machinery, personnel, water, weather, economics, energy, etc. These activities involve sensing, analysing, and two-way communication of a larger and larger scale of geospatial data streams. The GeoWebAgri II project initially focused on enhancing open geospatial standards derived from the ISO19100. The Agricultural Data Application Programming Toolkit (ADAPT) provides a platform for developing individual vendor plug-in translation between their proprietary data formats, based on a common ADAPT denominator, and the semantic
model defined by the equipment manufacturers participating in the ADAPT network (AgGateway). The GeoWebAgri II project demonstrated the use of two tools specifically developed
for agricultural machine implement control systems (MICS): first, a tool converting between typical map server files to task files; and second, the demonstration of a two-way communication of data with a fertiliser spreader task controller (TC) in a FMIS tool denominated CropManager. As agriculture is a significant and rapidly evolving domain of large-scale geospatial information exchange, the recommendation based on the GeoWebAgri II project experience and accumulated knowledge, is to support a worldwide forum that represent this domain under, for instance, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Europe agriculture working group.