20th to 21st Feb 2013: Mass data management in the agro-food industry. Survey - Processing - Use
The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Informatics in Agriculture, Forestry and Food Industry is entitled: Mass data management in the agro and food industry.
Application form (German)
The amount of data available is currently growing rapidly. This trend may be generally seen as positive, since with a larger amount of high quality data, better decisions in practice and academia can be made. The substantial amounts of data require new concepts in the collection, verification, distribution, consolidation, analysis, display, storage and archiving of data - which is a major challenge for many actors.
In the agro-food industry, this trend can be observed in research and practice. Particularly rich data sources are for example the genome analysis in animal and plant breeding, the sensor networks of soil scientists, crop farmers and livestock keepers, process and status data of agricultural machinery, weather records and climate projections, as well as accounting, controlling and tracking data.
GIL's mission is to bring together at the annual meetings of IT users from science and practice with IT experts in order to find solutions and promote agricultural computer science.
The 2013 Annual Meeting will be held on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, organized by the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam and the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg. The conference aims to identify the currently biggest problems in the mass data management of the agricultural and food sectors. At the same novel approaches and new technologies and methods are presented in order to overcome the identified challenges.
In addition to contributions to this year's focus on mass data management, submissions to other subject areas of agriculture computer science are welcome. The following topics are covered on the GIL annual conference:
- Product Focus: Fruits and vegetables
- Dealing with data from genome analysis
- Earth and environmental data management, and processing of weather and climate data
- Sensors, sensor networks and remote sensing
- Precision Agriculture, Precision Livestock Farming and Precision Forestry
- Modeling and Simulation
- Logistics and traceability
- Quality and information management
- Economical use of data
- Business Intelligence and Data Mining
- Development of computing power, computer hardware and Internet
- Themes of your choice
- Presentation and practice of commercial systems available
Your contributions are reviewed and published in Proceedings of the GI-Edition Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
The main objective of the GIL is to promote informatics in agriculture through the creation, evaluation and dissemination of theories, models, methods, tools and solutions for information systems in agriculture, forestry, the food sector and the agri-food research.
The annual meeting will serve as a central meeting point of knowledge acquisition and dissemination and is aimed at teachers, students, users, experts and decision makers in research, teaching, business, government and politics.