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SPARKLE E-LEARNING COURSE-v3_def (UNIT 1- SPA OVERVIEW (DEFINITION/SPA…
SPARKLE E-LEARNING COURSE-v3_def
UNIT 1- SPA OVERVIEW
DEFINITION/SPA DEFINITION/TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
Definition of SPA
different definitions of SPA and key words
definition of SPA
SPA definition
SPA definition: what is now? why is needed? why it could be the base of a company?
definition of SPA and environment
definition of Spatial+Temporal variability
SPA definitions and terminology
From conventional to SPA
PA history: evolution, scenarios and diversification
PA types
PA=Produce more with less
Environmental implications of agricultural task
Drawbacks conventional farming
How PA affects the environment
The challenge of climate change and PA. Is climate smart agriculture different from SPA?
SPA and precision farming
SPA target variables (Economy, Environment, Ecology, Society)
How to face a change? from traditional agriculture to SPA
General Mindset
What is sustainability
Why we need to be sustainable
Knowing sustainable agriculture
What changes in the mindset of the agripreneur SPA needs
Where to apply SPA: Company, Territory, Region. Implications.
Why using PA; PA for different reasons: environmental, sustainability, resources
Potencial of PA technologies
What Knowledges, skills and competences are in the SPA goal
Future trends
STATE-OF-THE-ART/HISTORY AND OVERVIEW/THEORETICAL OVERVIEW
State-of-the-art
State-of-the-art in PA
Literature analysis in SPA
The digital revolution in agriculture: why we talk about a new paradigm
Brief SPA history
History of PA; from a machinery centric-market to a site-specific management
Tech innovation systems in agriculture
PA technologies
Statistics about the world/local PA status
Advantages & Barriers
Data about advantages of adoption of SPA
Economic, environmental and social challenges
Benefits: economic, environmental and social
Potentialities and benefits of PA
Benefits of PA: Economic, environmental and society impacts
Why SPA is important: interational aims, entrepreneurial aims and use cases
Adoption and barriers to SPA practices
Introduce the principles of how to PA even in fields/crops that technologies have not been introduced yet
To find the best relationship between acquire of profit and sustainble use of natural resources
VARIABLES AND SYSTEMS
Input
The soil-water-plant agrisystem: a little about soil, water and plants
How PA could "influence" different cultivating
Highest nutritional value crops by standartizing the quality
Organic cultivation or non organic
Value Chain
General information about agricultural economic: what is essential?
Value Chain system in agriculture: role of SPA
Could be SPA for all? Open source and free materials and tools
INFRASTRUCTURE
Infrastructure
Digitalisation of agriculture
Google
Broad band
Communications IoT sensors
STAKEHOLDERS
Stakeholders
Market needs
Know actors in agricultural sector: from farm to consumer
SPA in food supply chain
APPLICATIONS OF PA/ CHALLENGES IN SPA
Decision process
Providing the state-of-the-art tools for quantifying farm variables but put awareness towards the complication of these deductions?
Use of environmental information (soil, water, climate)
Framework for decision making
When/why you should not apply SPA?
If I am a farmer, why invest in PA?
Market structure in SPA technologies
Tools and practices
Presentation of basic technology in SPA
Irrigation
Harvest
Nutrition
Weed control
Waste management
Equipment
USE CASES / CASE STUDY
Analyzing the process
Use cases as examples of: what, how, benefit/cost
Provide current success stories where PA has worked
Some information about crop management
Preparation to assume risks and prevent failures
Case study
Success stories
Biggest past milestones
Use cases/case study
Let's practice
Introductory exercise about efficient use of resources and processes
UNIT 2 - TECH-ING
EYES
Positioning System
satellite technology
gnss, gps, glonass, galileo, waas, egnos
rtk-gps
Sensors
Satellite Remote Sensing
Photonic Sensors *which sensors which indexes -
smart clssification needed
Proximal sensors (Green Seekers)
LIDAR Technologies & SENSORS to acquire DATA (How to acquire data)
Read the land
geomatics
remote sensing
Geomatica (GNSS, GIS, Satelite)
Vision
image analysis
image recognition
computer vision
photo interpretation
NDVi IMAGES
TOUCH
Sensors
Data acquisition (sensors)
Drones
Electroconductivity or magnetic sensor
physical Sensors (T, Humidity ecc..) *which sensors which indexes -
smart clssification needed
sensors data collection
Sondes humidity Sensors
NEURAL SYSTEM
ISOBUS (machinery)
Lo-Ra ultra narrow band
telecommunication systems
SoftWare Compatibility
MIND
Data
(How to acquire data) Climate DATA store or else
climate, pest, fisiology data forecast & modelling
free platform of satellite images from nasa / europe or others
Data Analysis
Data gather technologies
data mining
data overaly mapping (visualizing)
data processing
Data processing: Formats- Storage database - implications!
Excel
Processing Data and make - decision (DSS)
Some software tools, for example Excel, that students will use across the course
statistical analysis
GIS
Implications of multi - year sensor data
Prescription map the soil
Management
Artificial Intelligence
FMIS (Farm management information systems)
Innovation challenges and new business model in Ag. Digitalisation
To identify problems and solution paths
ARMS
Primary Automation
Arduino/Raspberry
Robotic and 3D Printer
Navigation Systems
Autotraker
Geometric and Position Sensors on board of machinery
Automation
Automation (mechatronics)
Isobus steering guide system
Robotic arms, (feedback control)
Machinery control
UAVs
Drones on distribution (spray, capsules, etc..)
Harvesting machinery
Agri Machinery
UAVs
Robots
1)what are the essential parts of a comlete agricultural system for the technology point of view? Perception - Decision Making - Activation
2) Fixing the context
Drones UAVS
Currently available actuators
3) Decision Making: Methods-Getting information for data and DM (historic data) - AI (fuzzy reasoning)
4) Actions: Intelligent tools - Manipulators
Drones or airbones or satellites
5) Some essential information about robotics: small (fleets) - Mobile - Planification and coordination
Variable rate
yield monitoring
VRT (spreadind fertilizers)
(Automatic) Weed control
VR irrigation
variable rates
Management Intelligent Irrigation - Irrigation (rate water)
VRT
MEMORY
Input/output story collection
RFID
farming data storage
Environmental story collection
soil and climate status map
Spatial farming story collection
Productivity MAPS
crop, production, status maps (quality, quantity of harvested products, etc..)
Operational story collection
Blockchain
RFID, Bar, Code, Qr code
Telemetry
UNIT 3 - BE SITUATED
LEGISLATIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTISE SKILLS
CAP policy
How Europe works
Know the legislative bodies (who? Where? What?)
CAP
Knowing legislative of PA
What is CAP?
Cooperation
How to start or be in a Union or Coperative
Rules into practice
Where to find information about these topics? How to navigate across informations (maybe data bases)
Adapting to new laws
Searching engines
Legal "rules of thumb"
Knowledge of current constraints
Links to use SPA
How to meet legal requirements/ what to change
Register Legislative constraints
Safety constraints
Regulations on drones
Tech Resources Management
Checking of TRL
General Mindset
Legal Authorities Overview
Legal obligations + Legal rights
International regulation of Agriculture/Forestry
Regulations
GDPR rules
Regulations on robotics
Directives and Regulations of the EU on organic cultivation
What are the most important organisations in each coutry?
Data sharing who is the owner? Who will use it?
Why regulations? What to try to cover? What are the most important regulations?
Cooperating Laws and Directions
Certification
Directories on the certification (organic non-organic) and authorities that will provide those
Certifications ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001
Certification of quality production
Traceability of product and processes (RFID, QR code, Blockchain)
Climate (enviromental) policies
Guides on the environmental impact of certain cultivations
Literature review on National and EU legislation for PA and environmental issues
Environmental legislations (european and national)
Local, National, EU environmental policies on Agriculture (constrains)
Emission legislation
Sustainable Development
Climate Change
Data protection
Privacy GDPR
Rules concering ownership of agricultural data
LOCAL COMMUNITY LEADER
Human Resouces Management
Dissemination of the manager concept
Rules for pitching and public speaking how to approach farmers
Community management online/offline
Study case on how to lead an agricultural association /cooperation
Social Innovation
Develop hub for SPA
Flexible methodologies
Sharing is caring
Hubs or Clusters innovation facilitators
Social aspects of SPA
Social networks
Value chain agreement
UNIT 4 - HANDLE IT
VISIONING/STRATEGY
Risk management (Agripreneur is not a manager)
From idea to business
Types of business
Detecting new trend markets (e.g. bio-economy)
Strategical view
Design of value proposal
Business Model Canvas
Lean Management in SPA
Vision and Mission
territorial digital platforms (Digital Hub)
ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET
SPA mindset
Understading the importance of technology
Innovation processes
Innovation
Territorial vision: network with support services (educational, training, providers)
Being out of the comfort zone (PA farming for traditional farmers)
Local Ecosystem Key Actors
Visioning
In-farm relations among factors (environemental, biological, social, technical, orgnaization, accountability)
Human Resources Management
Leadership types and skills
link with management (entrepreneurship)
Leadership identification (diffusion theories)
Role and skills, should have a profile of a leader
Tech Resources Management
Checking of TRL
Choosing technologies
General Mindset
Decision making
Entrepreneurial mindset
Collaboration and identifying opportunities
Flexibility to market needs
Importance of failure
Management skills
Networking
Prediction of future markets
Rapid prototyping techniques and minimum viable product
Taking opportunities
Team management
ADMINISTRATION / MANAGEMENT
SPA management
Economic benefit of implementing SPA
Precision management
Digitalization management
Process analysis
Co-creation and open innovation
Human Resources Management
Human resources management
improvement management
Management of the knowedge inside the Enterprise
manage the involvement of workers in the process of change
Dominate personally technologies or to be able to identify and have efficient domain with tech services
Innovation Management
Change Management
Continous improvement
Principles of farms management
Management of innovative projects
Research and Innovation management
Management of the change due to the application of SPA
Management principles
Study case to show the importance of having sound managerial skills
Process management
Planning vs improvisation
Planning
Management principles
Legal management
Incremental approach
Administrative management
Finance Management
Farm accounting
ECONOMICS / FINANCES
KPI principles
KPIs (Key Performance Indicator)
Observe (KPI)
Basic of economics (market analysis - demand, price; market structure)
Business plan
Business planning
Cost-benefit analysis
Knowing the taxes and economic environment
Cost-revenue analysis
Knowledge of the economic situation
Farm economics principles
Resources management
Think (KPI)
Learn to monetize non-commercial values
Market environment
How to manage relationships with the others
Market rates
Cost-benefit evaluation
Market trends
Business plan and market segments
Act (KPI)
Cost estimation
Cost management
Accounting
Financing (find money)
Investment management
Cure (KPI)
Measuring the impact ( social, economic and environemental)
Long-term benefit/cost analysis
MARKETING/SALES
Management of Agricultural productions
Marketing strategies
Communication the technology information
Marketing studies
Sales management
DATA SUPPORT
What to do with data
What to do with the information analysis
What and how do you do data collection
How to apply the results obtained by data analysis
Basic data analysis
TOOLS
Software FMIS (Integrated Management)
Software for farmers for calculating costs and revenues (DSS)
For accounting: not just excel, other tools are available
Software for predictive benefit of using different SPA alternatives (simulation tools) (DSS)
Accounting software
Software for managing tasks (Project Management)