Evaluation of a system for visualizing agro-environmental knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Tomoaki Matsuno;Masui Takahiro;Keiichi Abe;Hiroshi Mineno;Ryuuji Oosuka;Tadanori Mizuno

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Infomatics, Shizuoka University, Japan;Graduate School of Infomatics, Shizuoka University, Japan;Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Japan;Graduate School of Infomatics, Shizuoka University, Japan;Shizuoka Prefectual Research Institute of Agriculture and Foresty, Japan;Faculty of Information Scinece, Aichi Institute of Technology, Shizuoka, Japan

  • Venue:
  • KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Problems involving agricultural know-how can be addressed using information and communication technology (ICT). For example, ICT can be used to reduce the risk of know-how being lost due to the increasing age of agricultural workers. Also, valuable crops that require careful environmental control can be monitored with ICT. Data collection, collation, and storage enable tacit knowledge to be converted into formalized algorithms. This requires various types of data. We developd an infomation sensing system using a dense sensor network for application to melon hothouse, in cooperation with the Japanese Prefectural Research Insitute. By its easy-to-understand web interface farmers will be able to transfer their tacit knowledge into formalized information.