13th Symposium on Precision Agriculture in Australasia
Click "Listen" below to hear an individual presention from the 13th Symposium on Precision Agriculture in Australasia, hosted by PARG and the University of New England. If you would like to download all the individual presentations to listen to later, a .zip file containing .mp3 format presentations can be downloaded here (162mb). A symposium 'wrap-up' slideshow is available at the bottom of this page.
Thursday 10th September 2009
13th Annual Symposium on Precision Agriculture in Australasia (Education building UNE)
1 - Welcome (Listen)
David Lamb (Group Leader - PARG)
2 - Official Opening (Listen)
Professor Alan Pettigrew (Vice Chancellor UNE)
Chair: David Lamb
3 - Managing nitrogen with active sensors (Listen)
Jim Schepers (USDA - Agricultural Research Service)
4 - Canopy-scale detection of nitrogen in wheat using the Canopy Chlorophyll Content Index (Listen)
Glenn Fitzgerald (Department of Primary Industries Victoria)
5 - Optimising nitrogen use in cereal crops using site-specific management classes and crop reflectance sensors (Listen)
James Austin (Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture, University of Sydney)
6 - Evaluating a new proximal sensor for winegrape quality (Listen)
Rob Bramley (CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems and Food Futures Flagship)
Chair: Rob Bramley
7 - A producer perspective on the application of precision technologies (Listen)
Kym I’anson (South Australian grain and hay producer)
8 - RTK CORS networks – the future of agricultural machine guidance (Listen)
Tim Neale (FARMpos Pty Ltd)
9 - Linking unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology with precision agriculture (Listen)
Leasie Felderhof (SkyView Solutions Pty Ltd)
10 - Measuring and mapping crop vigour using an active optical sensor in an ultra low-level aircraft (Listen)
David Lamb (CRC for Spatial Information and Precision Agriculture Research Group UNE)
Friday 11th September 2009
13th Annual Symposium on Precision Agriculture in Australasia (continued)
Chair: Ian Yule
11 - Precision nutrient management in China supported by remote sensing and information technology (Listen)
Ke Wang (Institute of Agricultural Remote Sensing & Information Technology, Zhejiang University)
12 - On-farm carbon and biodiversity: mechanisms and PA tools for the future (Listen)
Paul Frazier (Eco Logical Australia)
13 - Autonomous tracking and control of livestock in extensive grazing systems (Listen)
David Swain (CSIRO Livestock Industries)
14 - Water use efficiency indicators for variable rate irrigation of variable soils (Listen)
Carolyn Hedley (Landcare Research, Massey University)
15 - Ord Irrigation Area - a diversity of precision agriculture applications (Listen)
John Lucas (Terrabyte Services)
Chair: Brett Whelan
16 - Producer perspectives of precision agriculture (Listen)
Richard Heath (Grains Producer and GRDC Northern Panel member)
17 - A survey of Western Australian farmers on the uptake of precision agriculture: problems, issues and a way forward (Listen)
Roger Mandel (Curtin University of Technology)
18 - Examining the temporal availability of feed and regional turn-off patterns of cattle in Eastern Australia (Listen)
Graham Donald (CSIRO Livestock Industries)
19 - Integration of operational constraints into management zone delineation methods (Listen)
Pierre Roudier (Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture, University of Sydney)
20 - SPAA Producer Groups update (Listen)
Mark Branson (Southern Precision Agriculture Association)
21 - Symposium Summary and Close (Listen)
Hon. Richard Torbay (Chancellor UNE)
GPS Livestock Tracking Workshop (Education building UNE)
22 - GPS livestock tracking at the University of New England (Listen)
Mark Trotter (CRC for Spatial Information and Precision Agriculture Research Group UNE)
23 - Pasture utilisation and nutrient redistribution in intensively managed dairy system (Listen)
Ina Draganova (Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University, New Zealand)
24 - Adaptation behaviour of cattle relocated from the rangelands to a temperate agricultural grazing system (Listen)
Dean Thomas (CSIRO Livestock Industries)
25 - Sirion, the new generation in global satellite communications: livestock GPS tracking & traceback (Listen)
Mark Trotter (CRCSI - PARG UNE) for Gill Stassen (PacRim Satellite Communications)
26 - GPS Tracking Workshop - Audience Research Updates (Listen)
27 - GPS Livestock Tracking Workshop Closing Remarks (Listen)
Mark Trotter (CRCSI - PARG UNE)
Above: Images from the Precision Agriculture Tools Demonstration held before the official symposium which featured talks by commercial service providers, GPS collar displays and exhibition of the latest sensing technologies.
Download the symposium 'wrap-up' slide show (here)