SMART CROP FARMING

Upskilling your technological competences

SMART CROP FARMING

Upskilling your technological competences

SMART CROP FARMING

Upskilling your technological competences

SMART CROP FARMING

Upskilling your technological competences

SMART CROP FARMING

Upskilling your technological competences

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Start 2020

The following dates are scheduled:

Thursday           05.03.2020        to         Saturday 07.03.2020

Thursday           26.03.2020        to         Saturday 28.03.2020

Thursday           23.04.2020        to         Saturday 25.04.2020

Friday                05.06.2020         to         Saturday 06.06.2020

What is it about?

What is it about?

  • Learn to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in practice
  • Farm Information Systems and their use on today’s farm
  • Sensor techniques and Variable Rate Applications
  • Automated Steering & Section Control
  • Communication systems in agricultural engineering
  • Automation processes in crop production

What you will study?

The key subject areas of the certificate course are:

  • Introduction to advanced technologies in smart crop farming
  • Data sources in precision farming:
    -Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GPS, Galileo & Glonass)
    -Biosystem sensors
  • Spatial data analysis
  • Field controlled machine action

What you will study?

There is a chance that digitalization will make professions in agribusiness and agriculture much more attractive.

J. Roosen, 2017

Information & Dates

CERTIFICATE

Participants who complete the course will receive a certificate.

YOUR BENEFITS

Our graduates will have the know how to work within the field of digitalization in agriculture in various fields.

PLACE

The course will take place at the University of Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna as well as in the agricultural testing site of BOKU in Großenzersdorf, Lower Austria.

STUDY AND DURATION

To integrate participants with a tight work schedule, the blocks will be held on weekends and supplemented with online teaching materials.

Course Start

March 2020

Duration

4 months

Work load

6 ECTS

Fee

2400€

Academic director

Prof. Andreas Gronauer

Language

English

Qualification

Academic certificate

Course Start – September 2019

Duration – 4 months

Workload – 6 ECTS

Fee – 2400€

Academic director – Prof. Andreas Gronauer

Language – English

Application deadline – End June 2019

Qualification – Academic certificate

Our academic experts

Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Andreas Gronauer
Head of the BOKU Institute for
Agricultural Engineering
Univ. Ass. Dr. Norbert Barta
Institute for Agricultural Engineering; Leader of the working groups "Agricultural process engineering" and "Agro-mechatronics and energy"
Univ.Ass. Dr. Thomas Bauer
Institute of Geomatics; Expertise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing
Mag. Franz Suppan
Institute of Geomatics; Expertise in landscape ecology, GIS -Modeling and GIS - Classes

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Univ. Ass. Dr. Viktoria Motsch
Institute for Agricultural Engineering; Expertise in computer science and data analysis
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Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Hans-Peter Kaul
Head of the BOKU Department of Crop Sciences (DNW)
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Katja Hofer
Continuing Education Academy & Institute for Silviculture
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Julia Schuster, MSc
Institute for Agricultural Engineering

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