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Posts tagged Agriculture
Nov 11, 2013 “From precision farming to autonomous farming”
11 years
The popular conception of farming as low-tech is woefully out of date. Modern farmers are high-tech operators: They use GIS software to plan their fields, GPS to guide field operations, and auto-steer systems to make tractors follow that GPS guidance without human hands.
Nov 4, 2013 “Space exploration as driver for sustainable robotic agriculture”
11 years
Targeting a sustainable presence of humans in outer space will require solving air, water, energy, and food supplies within a few thousand cubic feet surrounded by vacuum. What seems at first sight to be a problem of an apocalyptic, remote future reveals itself as the grand challenges of our civilization in a nutshell.
