AGROffice a WinGIS based application for Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology and planning rural areas

Abstract

AGROffice a WinGIS based application for Agriculture, Forestry, Ecology and planning rural areas

Dipl.Ing. Walter H. MAYER
CEO
PROGIS Software AG
Villach, Austria
Email: KStrobl@progis.com

Abstract:
TRACEABILITY became obligatory according EU food legislation from 1.1.2005; DOCUMENTATION of the farm activities is the base layer that must be provided when someone wants to trace back till to farms according the EU "farm to fork" legislation. With DokuPlant or AGROffice you can trace back, with WinGIS as add on GIS tool you can geotrace back! With intelligent software these solutions can be set up in any country of the world together with local partners within a few months.

But documentation is only one element of an integrated solution along the fields. For the farmers it would be boring, complicated and also risky which regards their data security to document different species towards several buyers internet platforms, subsidies towards a government solution, to do field-calculation with another software, nutrient balancing and mapping again with other solutions. With the PROGIS technology approach all activities on the farm will be done with one single click “where is growing what” with GIS integration, a time management tool and an expert database (6000 elements incl. fertilizer, herbicides, machines, costs, crops, methods etc.) - modified country by country with local partners.

The software can be used by a single farmer as enduser solution or by a public or private consultant to build up advisory services throughout the whole country/region. Due to the modularity of the system an excellent cost-value ratio is given.

Based on this platform with further enhanced models, logistics is done from cultivation till harvesting. A central installed GIS handles all fields within a region. At harvesting an SMS with route optimised daily work is sent to a mobile GIS solution. When harvesting and emptying the harvester and set the lot of sugar-beets, the coordinates taken from an integrated GPS and the weight taken from a machine interface is transmitted to the central GIS so that optimisation of trucks for transport to the factory can start. Further with additional modules precision/smart farming is done in cooperation with tractor-machinery- and hardware-producers with all its positive impact for cost and ecology optimisation.

Virtual farming is a new model to overcome the European farm structure and to find solutions as they are under development and test cases in different countries (land consolidation projects with government units). Environmental planing and rural area planing in cooperation with public and private European agro-consult organisations. Other applications available are forest-inventory, water- and wastewater-pipe- lines, smart communities, sensor integration (meteo, water, soil) etc. or customized applications on demand.