Adriaan van Niekerk
Terrain data for supporting agricultural decisions
Different types of terrain data and how they can be used to generate three-dimensional maps at farm and field level.
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Making Sense of Remote Sensing
The use of satellite and drone imagery is taking off in a big way, especially in the agricultural sector. In this blog, I attempt to demystify some of the technical (sales) jargon and provide some practical examples that demonstrate the value of remote sensing and other geospatial technologies in agriculture and related industries.
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Where did Cape Town's water go?
The study showed that, with the aid of satellite remote sensing, water use can be linked to specific land uses.
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Automated field boundary delineation using Sentinel-2 imagery
One of my MSc students, Barry Watkins, is working on a technique to automatically extract agricultural field boundaries from Sentinel-2...
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How satellites can be used to prioritize farm inspections
Many farms are too large to monitor using traditional "feet-in-field" inspections. In this article I give a short overview of a remote...
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Using free satellite imagery for yield benchmarking and predictions
The use of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), for agricultural applications is rapidly increasing. Unfortunately, the popularity...
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Our crops are beautiful
I was playing around with some Sentinel-2 images and accidentally created this image (if you are interested in the technical stuff, see...
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These are the bands that farmers should like
In an earlier article I explained that remote sensing – within the context of earth observations – is the practice of deriving...
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