Tools
Finding and Using Free Aerial Imagery
PDF: Submitting GPS Yield Data From Replicated Strip Trials
PDF: How to Calibrate Your: AgLeader Yield Monitor | GreenStar Yield Monitor
PDF: Additional Calibration Tables : AgLeader Yield Monitor | GreenStar Yield Monitor
Video: Obtaining Aerial Photography
Video: Errors of Remote Sensing
Video: Sources of Aerial Imagery for Iowa
Video: Advanced Uses of Remote Sensing
Video: Using Aerial Imagry to Quantify Agronomic Performance
What Can Be Detected with Aerial Imagery:
Video: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
Video: Cornstalk Sampling
Video: Basics of Remote Sensing - Video
Video: Conducting replicated strip trials for fungicides and other purposes
PDF: Creating Field Boundaries With Google Earth
This module will provide details on how you can generate geo-referenced
field boundary files using Google Earth.
Video: Creating Field Boundaries With Google Earth
We use a variety of tools, including remote sensing, GPS and yield monitors to collect data in real world conditions. Growers and agronomists follow protocols that ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data collected, yet are easy and practical to implement. Trials run throughout fields and are made up of replicated strips marked with GPS. The strips compare a grower’s normal practice with just one alternative, which can be a difference in products used, application method, timing, or other management practices.
A single trial has value, particularly to the grower on whose farm it was conducted. However, there is much more value in looking at data from many trials, whether they are collected from farmers in a local group or pooled from across the state and across time.
