Open discussions on specific topics selected by the Software Working Group and selected from the list of SWG Topics For Discussion.
Agriculture Projects at NCSA
Moderated by Chris Navarro
During this collaborative session, we will discuss who we've collaborated with, what were the project's goals, what data (types, sources) do we have expertise in, what technologies and tools have you used and might be leveraged in current and future projects?
Recording: https://uofi.box.com/s/g3f0zjsq68knr4h4u4r40j79f8x49vl4
Slides:
Attendees:
Chris Navarro
Jonathan Coppess
Rebecca Eveland
Dick Warner
Jong Lee
Rashmil Panchani
Fangyu Zhou
Santiago Nunez-Corrales
Minu Mathew
Matt Berry
John MacMullen
Naveen Uppalapati
Sara Lambert
Max Burnette
Chen Wang
Mike Bobak
Yong Wook Kim
Yousaf Shah
Melanie Rodriguez
Christina Fliege
Rob Kooper
Vikram Adve
Jonathan Kim
Jessica Wedow
Matt Hudson
Roland Haas
Christina Fliege
Sandeep Satheesan
Discussion:
This is a collaborative discussion of all of the agricultural projects worked on at NCSA. We have created a cover crop analyzer, a support tools for farmer subsidies and insurance projects, and Direct4Ag is a pilot program connecting researchers to farmers. A connections was made between Direct4Ag and AIFARMS, which should turn into a partnership in the tools that we create. The Policy Design Lab is working on the farm bill and how much money is being spent in various areas.
Max worked on TERRA-REF, which built a shipping container that could move up and down the field with sensors from the field. It measured different fertilizers treatments and determined which fields did best under various conditions. Images were high resolution. This was stored on the cloud because it was too large to download, using Clowder.
Great Lakes to Gulf working with trends and hypoxia, flow rates. This uses geodashboard at NCSA. There are several sensors in the states and waterways along the Mississippi River monitoring how much nitrogen and other things in the river suck the oxygen from the river, killing plants and other living things along the river and into the Gulf of Mexico.
NCSA has also worked on Thunderstorm Project, which rendered rasters that you could see images across time. CINet
GLTG and cover crops have a lot of overlap and tools can be shared across projects. If we could detect tile drainage automatically. We also have connections with EPA and USGS
Mike Bobak notes this website: https://knowwheregraph.org/graph/
How are back are we tracking and can we see what the outcomes are based on historical data.
All data is kept within NCSA. Hyperspectral data from TERRA-REF. Vikram will follow up with Max to access this data.
The AIFARMS seminar at 3:00 pm. All of NCSA is invited.
Farm of the Future plans to increase its fields to 115 acres this year. We have 15 acres doing cover crops planted by robots, and using the cover crop analyzer.
We have data sources to share with anyone who needs to use it: SSURGA, DSSAT, ISWS WARM gridMET, all weather related data. WE also have soil sensors and remote sensing data.
Rob notes that the Ameriflux weather tower also tracks weather from 1995, You can get all sites registered in ameriflux here : https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/site-search/
New IEEE working group from MBDH looking at cross sector supply chain in the ag industry. New IEEE working group on cross-sector ag supply chain data interoperability, co-led by NCSA/MBDH and Illinois AgTech Accelerator:
https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/enabling-a-smart-and-equitable-agriculture-ecosystem/
Technologies and Tools not mentioned in the slides: R, GeoSpatial Data, GDAL,, National Hydrography Dataset https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/national-hydrography-dataset
https://labs.waterdata.usgs.gov/about-nldi/index.html
CRUNCEP
Scale: global
Resolution: 6hr, 0.5 degree
Availability: 1901-2010
NARR
Scale: North America
Resolution: 3 hr, approx. 32km
Availability: 1979-present
list of meteorological drivers used in PEcAn: https://pecanproject.github.io/pecan-documentation/master/available-meteorological-drivers.html
We are interested in weather prediction tools
We may need funding, but get some APIs for sharing all of this data.
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