Peter Korduan

Applications of open geospatial web services in precision agriculture: a review

Precision agriculture requires the collection, storage, sharing and analysis of large quantities of spatially referenced data. For this data to be effectively used, it must be transferred between different hardware, software and organisations. These data flows currently present a hurdle to uptake of precision agriculture as the multitude of data models, formats, interfaces and reference systems in use result in incompatibilities. This paper presents work on applying standards from the Open Geospatial Consortium and related initiatives to automate agricultural data processing. The selected use-cases demonstrate how such standards may be used to improve the inter-operability of data and software in precision agriculture.

Standardisation in precision agriculture through INSPIRE

Standardisation is still an important issue for interoperable data exchange in precision agriculture. There are a lot of existing approaches in agriculture, which are often more or less based on national initiatives and rarely used in practice. In 2012, the Thematic Working Groups of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe (INSPIRE) published the data specification draft guidelines for annex II&III themes of the INSPIRE directive in a pre-final version. This paper shows the structure of the model and identifies parts which have a relevance to agricultural topics. Furthermore it explains how the designated services can be used.