Monday, February 21, 2011

Freely Exchanging Agricultural Data


Since 2007, the MIT Field Intelligence Lab has been engaged in various ways to apply computing to agriculture. Much o this effort involves the integration of data and the rapid analysis using Internet-based mathematical models.

I think there will be a new age for agriculture called general termed Internet Architecture for Bio-productivity. This technology will apply to food and biomass production.

The direction of this research is consistent with the observations of others within the agricultural community. For example, Nikkila et al. (2010) write,

"The [agricultural] information system must be able to manage various data formats, both standardized as well as proprietary and be able to exchange data with services that provide computation for precision agriculture."

Nikkila, R., Seilonen, I., Koskinen, K., 2010. Software architecture for farm management information systems in precision agriculture. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 70, 328-336.

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