Farming is seen to be entering a new era of development in which engineering and associated innovation is opening new dimensions of support and intervention. Growth in urbanisation and the need for new ideas to meet the global challenges of food provision is also increasing attention to new technologies and solutions.
Emphasis on increasing efficiency, productivity and innovative approaches to future food security needs, alongside attention to the environmental need for reducing our carbon footprint, are clearly adding to this new era of farming challenges. ‘Smart’, in the context of smart integrated farming, is a term that is now being applied to these evolving technological drivers.
Core to these developments are sensors, measurement and the associated generation of data. They are fundamental to any sector of industry, with agriculture being no exception. Development of agricultural systems and practice are dependent upon these basic tenets of commercial underpinning, with precision agriculture extending this dependency on sensing and measurement. Commercial competitiveness and progress are geared to effective application of this practice, requiring careful attention to technical, financial and application needs – a complexity of considerations.
Why attend
As a result of our first Sensors and Measurement workshop, held in March this year, the Satellite Applications Catapult, alongside The National Centre for Precision Farming at Harper Adams University, has launched an interest group that can assist in unravelling the complexities within farming, and reveal incentives for engagement and routes to profitability through greater attention to sensing and quality-assured measurement.
Programme
10:00 – Arrival and registration
10:30 – Welcome
10:35 – Presentation on ISCF and DCMS funding opportunities
10:45 – Pitches
11:30 – Coffee break
11:40 – Scope of SIG, goals and objectives
12:10 – Discussion: Steering Group membership
12:40 – AOB and close
12:45 – Lunch and networking
More information
If you would like to get in touch for more information please email us at marketing@sa.catapult.org.uk.
