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07.08 2024

Orthophotoplan as an element of the precision farming system

Orthophotoplan as an element of the precision farming system

A digital orthophotomap is a digitally transformed image of the terrain on a specific plot of land, created from overlapping photographs. An orthomosaic is a photographic plan of the area, created from a large number of images taken vertically down from a set height. It makes possible to display the earth's surface and objects on it in maximum detail with precise reference to a given coordinate system.

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07.05 2024

The mobile agronomist is a new level of analysis and forecasting of yield

The mobile agronomist is a new level of analysis and forecasting of yield

Download Android Download iOS In recent years, the level of implementation of innovative technologies in the agricultural sector has increased significantly. Progressive specialists are increasingly expanding their capabilities, using specialized applications and advanced IT solutions in their activities to obtain complex and timely information about the condition of soils and plants. In particular, such functions are performed by the field monitoring process, which can be used to determine the level of germination of crops, the degree of their contamination by diseases or weeds.

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20.12 2023

Updating of the «Soft.Farm IS User Training Center» at Poltava State Agrarian University

Updating of the «Soft.Farm IS User Training Center» at Poltava State Agrarian University

On December 15, 2023, the «Soft.Farm IS User Training Center» was updated. This center has been operating for more than 7 years at the Poltava State Agrarian University on the Department of Information Systems and Technologies of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Economics, Management, Law and Information Technologies. The Soft.Farm team also joined in updating the hardware. Our team together with the Department of Information Systems and Technologies installed and configured equipment.

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19.10 2023

Measuring field area is the first step towards precision agriculture

Measuring field area is the first step towards precision agriculture

Fields are one of the main elements of agricultural activity. The productivity and profitability of agricultural production as a whole depends on the efficiency of their use, therefore, for high-quality management of a land bank, you need to know the structure of the fields of an agricultural enterprise and their exact area. There are often cases when paper maps or data from cadastral plans are used in work, which are long outdated and no longer correspond to reality.

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15.03 2023

Electronic book of field history — the basis for the development of modern agronomy

Electronic book of field history — the basis for the development of modern agronomy

Each farm that is engaged in crop production has a field history book, compiled in paper or electronic form. As a rule, it reflects the technology of cultivation of crops and the history of crop rotations. It contains information not only about the areas of fields and the crop rotation schemes introduced on them, but also can store data on the physical and chemical properties of the soil, reports on the weediness of fields and their population with pests or diseases, record field work done, seasonal changes in vegetation indices, weather conditions and much more information.

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