Gis Sols for Agriculture

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GIS Solutions or AgricultureSolutions or Production, Agribusiness, and Government


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GIS Solutions or Agriculture

All sectors o the agriculture industry use ESRIs geographic

inormation system (GIS) technology to share data, increase

yields, predict outcomes, and improve business practices.

By applying GIS technology to their operations, agricultural

operations are able to manage resources and responsibilities

more eciently, devise data portals that disseminate vast

amounts o agricultural data and interactive maps, and support

arming communities.

Producers use GIS to better manage their arms by creating

inormation-dense reports and maps that give them a unique

perspective o their operations. The powerul analytical

capabilities o GIS oer an array o options or visualizing

arming conditions, as well as measuring and monitoring the

eects o arm management practices. Combined with remote-

sensing technology, GIS can be used to precisely determine

and control inputs, saving preventive expense and reducing

the amount o harm to the soil. Farm managers also use GIS to

submit government program applications, simpliying what used

to be time-consuming multistep processes.

ESRIs GIS technologies support people working in

agriculture by providing

Greateranalyticalsupportforprecisionfarming

Betterunderstandingofriskfactors

Higherrevenuegenerationandcostrecovery

Greaterefciencythroughtaskautomation

Greateraccesstogovernmentservicesanddata

Moreaccuratesupportfordecisionmaking

Greaterinsighttopolicymaking

Easierreportingforgovernmentapplicationsand

regulatory compliance

Betterresourcemanagement

www.esri.com/agriculture


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GIS for Precise Farm Management

Monitoringmarkettrends,improvingyields,andpredicting

weather are among the many responsibilities required to reducethe risk o loss and increase protability. The Farmers Almanac

has been replaced with geospatial analysis and predictive

modeling. With these tools at their disposal, armers now

have the ability to visualize their land, crops, and management

practices in unprecedented ways or precise management o

their businesses.

Today, accessing spatial data has become an essential arm

practice. Government agencies such as the U.S. Department o

Agriculture (USDA) and the European Union host Web sites that

deliver valuable inormation to help armers better understand

their land and make more inormed decisions. This data can be

accessed on the Internet and used to create intelligent maps orbetter arm business practices.

Irrigation

Soil Treatments

Crop Yield

Soil Types

Terrain

In a map o an agricultural area, one layer might represent the boundaries

o a piece o land; a second layer, soil types; another, the crop yield or

a specic soil treatment; and still another, irrigation. GIS can show, or

example, how the relationships between soil type, ertilizer, and water

aect crop yield on a given square acre o land. A map depicting how soil

variability infuences crop yield suggests precise soil management solutions.

Detailed soil survey atlas map for Antelope County, Nebraska


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GIS for Government Agriculture

Federal, state, and local agricultural agencies serve and share

inormation with many dierent groups. Throughout the supplychain, rom producer to consumer, agricultural ministries and

institutions collect, collate, manage, and disseminate data. With

growing public awareness o arming practices and legislation,

these activities will inevitably become more complicated. I

there is a common theme in new eorts to better conduct

these activities, it is communication. A powerul medium o

communication, GIS enables the sharing o inormation not only

internally but also between government and consumer.

The agricultural industry uses GIS to meet the challenges o

arm management including regulatory compliance, permit

distribution, subsidy tracking, and pest management. By

improving the way producers collect, store, and accessinormation related to these activities, GIS enables a more

complete command o their businesses.

Agriculture Information Delivered Online

In the agriculture industry, those unacquainted with GIS

technology need to view and print custom maps and be able

to download these maps to desktop and GPS-enabled mobile

applications. Using ESRI GIS sotware, AgTerra Technologies Inc.,

a manuacturer o agriculture management applications located

in Sheridan, Wyoming, set out to make this happen.

AgTerra uses its Internet map server program in conjunctionwith its AgTrac application to make it easier to build an online

map that can be downloaded as an ArcGIS, ArcExplorer, or

ArcPad project. To make system data more accessible to work-

ers,AgTerrausesArcIMS or many reasons, the oremost being

itshighlyscalableframeworkforGISWebpublishing.ArcIMS

gives users the ability to serve maps and other data to a variety

o clients ranging rom wireless devices, such as cellular phones

and personal digital assistants (PDAs), or lightweight browser-

based clients to ull-eatured GIS desktop clients. As a result o

this project, AgTerra improved AgTracs ability to manage and

acilitate improved business.

GSA Schedule

ESRIs GIS sotware and services are avail-

able to ederal agencies through ESRIs

GSA Schedule. To order GIS sotware rom

ESRIs GSA Schedule, call 1-800-447-9778. Reer to ESRIs

GSAScheduleNo.GS-35F-5086H.

Based on ArcIMS, AgTerras AgTrac application helps link tabular fielddata with spatial data to help direct field-based activities such as cropscouting, soil sampling, and ground-truthing remote imagery.


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Publishing Volumes o DataServer-Based Case StudyUSDA Web Soil Survey

In August 2005, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Ser-

vice (NRCS) launched the Web Soil Survey, a Web-based version

o the National Cooperative Soil Survey. The Web Soil Survey

helps the USDA meet two o the U.S. presidents management

agenda items: to eliminate paperwork and to make government

services accessible to more people. Prior to the Web Soil Survey

going live, soil survey maps and data were largely contained in

soil survey books housed at local USDA service centers, NRCS

eld oces, and public libraries. Today, soil survey users can

simply connect to the Internet, select a land parcel anywhere

in the country, see the specied parcel on a map, generate soil

interpretations, and download or print a PDF le.

TheWebSoilSurveyapplicationwasbuiltusingESRIArcIMS,

ArcGIS Server, and ArcSDE sotware. The server sotware is

being ully integrated with the soil surveys master database,

whichcontainsallsoilinformationonanationalbasis.ArcIMSis

the ront end or delivering the application, while ArcGIS Server

delivers the inormation. In addition, ESRIs ArcWebSM

Services

provide address-nding unctionality, enabling users to type an

address and receive a map view o that area.

An application suite, the Web Soil Survey contains a ront-end

applicationthataccessestheSoilDataMartthecentralized

repository o the Web Soil Surveys spatial and tabular soil

data. Because the Web site provides single-point access, users

can access available historical and current soil survey data. Past

publications are available as PDFs or viewing or downloading or

selected areas. On the interactive GIS map, the user can outline

an area o interest (rom 3 to 10,000 acres) and select a usageoption. The application provides suitability levels o the area or

the selected land use.

The Web Soil Survey oers approximately 50 national standard

interpretations. Some examples o interpretations are land appli-

cations; productivity o cropland, rangeland, and orestland; and

suitability or dierent recreational developments such as paths

and trails, campsites, and picnic grounds.

Adding new unctionalities to the Web Soil Survey project is a

constant endeavor. Eventually, USDA customers will be able to log

in to their USDA case les and drop in inormation, such as prop-

erty boundaries, or quick access to inormation about selected

properties in their les. The Web Soil Survey is the beginning o a

new era or NRCS and delivery o soil survey inormation.

Online users select a plant community and assess the suitability and

limitations of a specified ecological site. They can also read about thespecific details and view a map.

Web Soil Survey allows the user to select any location in the United States

and access available soil information, suitability levels, and propertypotential. Here, the Web site user assesses an area for potential cottonlint yield.



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Fertilizer Application System Uses GIS/GPS forPrecision Farming

Today more than ever, armers rely on inputs to increase thequality o the produce they grow. These inputs vary rom seed,

ertilizer, and pesticides to machinery parts and monitoring

equipment.

In past generations, armers tended to spread ertilizer evenly

over the entire eld. Now, thanks to geospatial technology,

spreading methods can be more exact by type, quantity, and

location o application. Outtting the spray rig with computer-

ized controllers and GPS navigation systems is an approach to

arming that is both riendly to the environment and protable

or the armer.

Ravensdown, New Zealands largest manuacturer and distribu-

tor o ertilizers, is using geospatial technology to improve the

way New Zealand armers manage their inputs. By using GIS

and GPS to guide the application o ertilizers, armers are

decreasing the amount o wasted resources that can potentially

cause harmul runo into streams and waterways. At the same

time, they are reducing their total ertilizer expenditure by up to

10 percent per year.

Ravensdown worked with Eagle Technology Group to design the

solution that is built on ESRIs ArcGIS sotware. The system accu-

rately records where and how much ertilizer has been applied to

a certain area. This inormation is merged with digital orthopho-

tos and the arms relational databases to create a vivid picture o

the arms overall soil sustainability.

Ravensdowns GIS architecture includes ESRIs ArcGIS Server,

ArcSDE,ArcIMS,andArcExplorer.Oncetherawspatialandattri-

bute data is captured rom GPS transceivers on the trucks, it is

transmitted wirelessly to Ravensdowns acility where it is loaded

into the GIS and processed in near real time.

The onboard GIS creates a map-based display that shows ertil-

izer application data as a series o color-coded snail trails that

are overlaid on the map, giving a very good representation o

the process. An additional benet is that the system can be used

as evidence to veriy proo o placement. With geospatial

technology, it is easy to demonstrate that the ertilizer has been

spread in a manner consistent with best environmental practices.

Improving Crop YieldCase StudyRavensdown, New Zealand

Eagle used the development capabilities available in ArcGIS

Server to embed the map interace in Ravensdowns customer

relationshipmanagement(CRM)system.Ravensdownwanted

seamless access to the spatial and attribute data, so Eagle

developers used the .NET ramework to build an interactive map

viewer that the call center sta can access with a click o the

mouse. Sta members can query the database, manipulate the

display, and print or ax hard-copy maps.

Ravensdown is planning to build on this oundation. Eventually,

we want to incorporate GIS into our quoting system to calculate

the road distance between our depots and the elds to be ertil-

ized,saysMarkMcAtamney,CIOatRavensdown.Thedistance

is a signicant component o the cost to our clients.

Once the data has been uploaded and processed, Ravensdown field staff

can log on to the system from a remote location via the Internet. Theycan call up a customers farm, view the results of earlier soil tests, see

what types of fertilizers have been applied, then make recommendationsabout which type of fertilizers are appropriate.

Ravensdown had already

equipped a number of its fertilizerapplication trucks with GPS-

controlled guidance systems and

spreaders that captured location,fertilizer type, and spreading data.


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ESRI sotware oers scalable solutions or agricultural depart-

ments, universities, and businesses. From eld-based products

such as ArcPad to server-level sotware such as ArcGIS Server,

data can be collected and managed more easily than ever beore.

ArcGIS provides all the necessary tools to analyze the spatial

components o agricultural datasets. Below are a ew examples

where organizations are beneting rom taking a geographic

approach to their operations.

Invasive Species ResponseWashington State

The gypsy moth is one o the worst agricultural pests in North

America today. To deal with the burgeoning threat, the Washing-

ton State Department o Agriculture (WSDA) recently implemented

GIS and GPS technology into the states eradication eorts. As

a result, the department has reduced the amount o paper used

in the data collection process and increased the number o moth

catches, signicantly improving WSDAs monitoring eorts. The

accuracy o GPS units, combined with ArcView sotwares state-

o-the-art mapping capabilities, gives trappers a better picture o

where to set the traps to better manage this voracious pest.

Vineyard InspectionWashington State

ChateauSte.MichelleWineEstatesmaintainsawealthofspatial

data or its numerous vineyards. To keep the grapes growing

at peak level, crews routinely inspect the vineyards using ESRIs

ArcPad mobile platorm. Data on the mobile devices is synchro-

nized using TC Technologys GO! Sync or ArcPad. The remotely

captured data is stored centrally in an enterprise geodatabase,

allowingChateauSte.Michelletoanalyzeavastamountofinormation relating to the numerous conditions that aect the

health o its vines such as weed growth, disease presence, and

pest inestation. This eld-collected data is then synchronized

with the winerys centrally stored data.

Mass Animal Burial Soil SuitabilityKansas

The quick disposal o large dead animals ollowing a catastrophe

is critical. The pit method disposes dead animals by placing car-

casses in successive layers in an excavated pit. The chemical and

physical properties o soils can help distinguish areas that are

most suitable or excavating pits and disposal o large animals as

well as areas with the least number o soil limitations.

Using ArcGIS Desktop sotware, the USDA obtained soil data

rom the National Soil Inormation System and combined it with

the Soil Survey Geographic Database to map the soil suitability

or large-animal disposal pits. This interpretive map demon-

strates how important soils are in determining which areas may

be suitable or these emergency response uses.


Map depicting trapping grids in Washington State generated in ArcView

GIS: The Geographic Approach

Map depicting soil suitability for catastrophic large-animal disposalpit in Kansas.


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