Precision Agriculture Research Group
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PARG News:
PARG welcomes Michael Schaefer to the research team PARG PhD student, Michael Schaefer, joins UNE-PARG as our newest staff member. While putting the last-minute, finishing touches to his PhD thesis, Michael has joined Dr Alex Held’s group at CSIRO Canberra, working with the team on the national Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) project. “Ive known Alex for many years and we have always [...]
Dr Paul Coop completes monolayer detection PhD Congratuations go out to PARG PhD student and long time member of the UNE Physics and Electronics department Dr Paul Coop (PhD). Paul’s doctorate investigated possible techniques for determining if a monolayer (one molecule wide) existed on the surface of water in a open reservoir situation such as a lake or dam. Paul presented his findings [...]
Farming, PA and Australia’s Digital Future The opportunities for NBN to make a difference to rural and regional Australia was discussed at the recent National Economic Development Conference (“NEDC2011 The Digital Economy”) held in Adelaide. Precision Agriculture is set to play a big role in Australia’s NBN-enabled farming future. Presentations included BROADBAND IN BUSINESS, SMART FARMS (presented by UNE-PARG’s David Lamb), [...]
New SMART Farm website launched The next big thing at PARG is the launch of the SMART Farm concept. To demonstrate the concept a new website has been developed at www.une.edu.au/smart . The UNE SMART Farm is to be implemented on the UNE rural property “Kirby” and will involve sensor networks and autonomous data collection which all feed back to [...]
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