3.4 Field report 29 April 2022 - Soil, Building weirs in the ditches, Internship

#Farm&Field

Apr 29

Written By Ali Abkar

Observation:

Visited the dairy research farm including, a family farm operation, cow-calf, barn/cow housing, two robotic milking machines, machinery, farm data management, grass and maize production.

As the cloud-free Sentinel-2 data (10 x 10 m and 13 spectral bands) from the study area were available from 27 April 2022, a field visit on 29 April 2022 from 09:00 - 16:00 was executed.
Four staff from the AgriWatch and three interns from Saxion Smart Solutions Semester.
Three staff from the research farm.
Visit the drainage and rainwater harvesting system.
The flight plans and parameters settings for the drone data acquisition on April 29, 2022 in AgriWatch test Farm Maize#1 before planting maize seeds.
Post-processing and analysis of the drone images to visualize spatial patterns or segments.

A drone image of the research area, soil image, flying height: 50.

Sentinel-2, False-color composite (8,4,3), 27 April 2022, Europe’s Copernicus Programme.

Aim:

Saxion Students Smart Solutions Semester from project ‘’AgriWatch Drought Monitoring Platform’’ had a tour of the demonstration on 29 April 2022.
Water management at the farm level: a new installed Water Gate in the ditches by the Waterschap is based on the three years of cooperation between AgriWatch and the research farm for rainwater harvesting.
Soil reference drilling & drone image acquisition.