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| Subject: | RE: GISList: SUM: ArcPad, OnSite, MapinHand, etc #2 |
| Date: |
05/09/2002 11:59:22 AM |
| From: |
Neil Havermale |
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Agriculture's precision farming systems trend and its need for GPS field
inventory, soil sampling, crop scouting, and performance data logging (yield
mapping) have created several very good PDA solutions. Most are
WinCE/PocketPC designs the farming integration requires the concurrent
treading of two serial ports: one for GPS and the second dedicated to real
time data collected from sensors, barcode readers, and other connected
things (machine control).
ESRI has interest in precision farming systems and there are several
remarketed ArcPad solutions developed by aggie developers. Trimble also has
an offering to match its agGPS and automatic tractor steering solutions. It
is "very" ArcPAD-like but with additional GPS setup utilities for their many
GPS systems.
FarmSite is a companion tool to FarmWorks, a mostly farm accounting system.
It's a home-brew Pocket GIS that relies on SHP formats that was created for
their clients interested in getting started with farm mapping. It also
integrates to FarmWorks crop records and field cost accounting modules.
Another tool used by hundreds of professional crop consultants who inventory
millions of acres every year is StarPal http://www.starpal.com. It works
with a number of GIS formats....
A closing note on agriculture's use of PDAs-
Over the past ten years agriculture has been a leading but silent integrator
of mapping (GPS), navigation (GPS), and machine control (CANN). Literally
tens of millions of acres have some sort of detailed spatial information
resources guiding appliance of inputs like pesticides and fertilizers.
The primary entry point for the "space-farmer" and "space-cowboy" is via the
GPS-traced / data logging combine which create very accurate spatial yield
data. This data being used in mapping of production variation across a
field. These yield maps when matched to soils information, fertility
sampling, and terrain models have been driving new spatial agronomy thinking
and methods.
The end result is a precision farming system where intelligent implements
positioned by high accuracy GPS command meter-by-meter prescriptions for
fertilizer and pesticides. These site-specific prescription maps are
believed to lead to new efficiencies in crop production as well as a
minimization of farming's influence in our environment. In the coming
season upwards of 30 million acres will practice some sort of precision
farming method. The acreage is growing and is expected to double again by
next year if the farmers make their crop and prices are good.
FYI
MidNight Mapper
Aka neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Hunter [mailto:andrew.hunter@shaw.ca]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:58 AM
To: 'GIS List'
Subject: GISList: SUM: ArcPad, OnSite, MapinHand, etc #2
Hello,
As promised here is a summary of the first weeks responses to my request
for numbers/types of Mobile GIS software being used within the GIS
Community.
Software Units
ArcPad 5 2
ArcPad 7
Farm Works Site Mate 1
Thanks to those who responded.
Sincerely
Andrew Hunter
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