Please join the following colleagues from Purdue and the Open Ag Data Alliance for a one-hour seminaron October 1 from 11 a.m. to Noon EST:
- Dr. Dennis Buckmaster is a Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University with past research focus in forage systems and current focus on agricultural systems management including data acquisition and farm management information systems for decision making.
- Dr. James Krogmeier is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University with expertise in signal processing; his recent emphasis has been in agricultural data systems, including hardware and software for improved meta data collection and analysis.
- Mr. Aaron Ault (M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering) is a full-time farmer and farm manager also works part-time as a senior research engineer in Purdue's Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Aaron is the project lead with the Open Ag Data Alliance.
Data holds the potential for unprecedented opportunities in agricultural production and processing. Dennis, James, and Aaron have been collaborating on USDA funded (and other) projects for several years and each continue to be engaged in family farming operations. Their recent projects relate to data collection, interoperability of data across systems, and data mining. Their Open Ag Data Alliance (OADA – seehttp://openag.io/) effort has generated numerous opportunities to work collaboratively with several agricultural businesses including Climate Corporation, Winfield, 360 Yield Center, CNH Industrial, Valley Irrigation, Wilbur-Ellis, GeoSys, Tierra, and others. They also interact with Ag Gateway and their standardized precision ag data exchange project. While the topics of ownership and privacy will surface, the focus of this seminar will be more on the current trends toward data usage in production agriculture and the technical aspects of data handling. They will talk realistically about the promise(s) of farm data, sources and quality of data (availability), issues related to implementation and utility, and the need to better prepare the ag workforce to contribute in a data-driven world.
To view the presentation remotely, log into http://Nifa-connect.nifa.usda.gov/bigdata