Introduction to Precision Agriculture

Explore auto guidance swath patterns in precision agriculture, including straight line, heading-based and recorded swaths, spirals, circles for center pivots, headlands, and multiple swaths.

Explore auto guidance components in precision agriculture, including display, receiver, nav controller, GPS, gyro, accelerometer, steering angle sensors, hydraulic valves, and enable/engage controls.

Define yield monitoring and show how yield maps overlay soil and moisture data to guide year-to-year field management via displays across tablets, phones, and computers.

Learn how precision water management uses tiling and land leveling to optimize water, with drainage tiles and surface leveling guided by a display, GPS, and valve module for accurate control.

Introduce implement control in precision agriculture, explain drift on hillsides and the need for a high accuracy, subin type signal, then compare passive and active implement steering and automatic systems.

Explore implement control components, including a compliant display, steering compatible display, and feedback from the tractor guidance, and compare passive versus active implement steering with an implement steer kit.

Discover the Isobus standard that enables universal terminal and task controller interoperability, detailing data recording in ISO SML format, prescription rate control, and automatic section control across equipment brands.

Explore section control and variable rate application to prevent overlap, manage boundaries, and optimize fertilizer, herbicide, or seed delivery via GPS, flow meters, and rate controllers.

Collect, process, and transmit machine data to cloud-based services. Link a cellular device to the can bus, enabling yield maps, boundaries, guidance lines, and machine location reports.

Explore drone-based data management for precision agriculture, using unmanned aerial vehicles for high-resolution field scouting, data analysis, and variable rate prescriptions from Indes V.I. maps.