Engineering for Crop Production

Head: Dr.-Ing. Detlef Ehlert

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Essential contributions to improve the efficiency of crop production and reduce the environmental impact are possible by using sufficient process and environment relevant information.

Sensors for measuring crop and soil parameters are developed or adapted to acquire the information with acceptable costs. Questions of technological incorporation are discussed before works for sensor development begin.

The research results in sensor developments are directly used for the site specific crop management (fertilisation and crop protection). The developed sensors are tested in the production process under practical conditions and are assed according of resulting effects.

For the competitiveness of sensor based production processes effective solutions for data acquisition and use are necessary, increasingly under aspects of food safety.

Flying robots to operate for sustainable agriculture ATB participates in developing flexible and low cost remote sensing technology. In the future, flying robots (drones) shall fastly provide aerial images in order to obtain information on the actual state of soil and plants. This will enable farmers to adjust fertilization and plant protection measures faster and more precisely to the site specific requirements within the field. The research project was started in 12/2009. It is coordinated by Humboldt University Berlin and funded by DBU (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt).

Proceedings:
Bauriegel, E.; Giebel, A.; Geyer, M.; Schmidt, U.; Herppich, W. Early detection of Fusarium infection in wheat using hyper-spectral imaging. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 75 (2): 304-312, 2011	[more...]
Ehlert, D.; Adamek, R.; Giebel, A.; Horn, H. Influence of comb parameters on picking properties for chamomile flowers (Matricaria recutita). Industrial Crops and Products 33 (1): 242-247, 2011	[more...]
Schirrmann, M.; Gebbers, R.; Kramer, E.; Seidel, J. Soil pH Mapping with an On-The-Go Sensor. Sensors 11 (1): 573-598, 2011	[more...]

Research program

The research of the department "Engineering for crop production" is performed in researcher groups in following research programs

Research matrix

Fields of activity

Development of sensors
Site specific crop management
Information management
Machine engineering

Contact

Staff

Office:
Dajana Ludwig

Max-Eyth-Allee 100
14469 Potsdam

phone: +49 331 5699 -411
fax: +49 331 5699 -849

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