Intro to Precision Agriculture

Catalog description

This course will examine the technology and application of global positioning systems (GPS) in agriculture. The course will discuss topics in GPS error and correction methods for GPS error as they apply to agricultural situations. Students will be instructed how to use and apply recreational, iPad, DGPS, and RTK GPS systems for collecting agriculture related data. Students will use iPad GPS systems to collect detailed data such as field boundaries and areas of interest (weed patch). The DGPS and RTK GPS sections will include collecting large amounts of data over large areas such as yield maps. Auto-steer and guidance steering systems will be discussed and demonstrated.