Digital Agriculture
Digital agriculture builds on the application of new and advanced technologies for processing and analyzing vast amounts of data such that complex human-machine-environment systems can be monitored and steered in up to real-time and so their performance improved. “Smart farming”, “precision farming” and “farm management information systems” are precursor technologies whose operational use has been limited to single fields and farms.
Today’s digital technologies, in contrast, are capable of connecting large numbers of systems and devices along the production and value chain making use of Internet of Things (IoT). They produce Big Data that can be merged and processed by data-intensive computing to enable analytical insights for improved agronomic decision-making. The full process of knowledge discovery with all its methods, tools and devices for measurement, data storage, processing, assimilation, simulation, forecasting, and analytics is here referred to as Digital Agriculture.
| Researcher | Function | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Berger, Thomas | Professor of Land Use Economics in the Tropics and Subtropics | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Cadisch, Georg | Professor of Agronomy in the Tropics and Subtropics | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Gayler, Sebastian | Biogeophysics | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Ingwersen, Joachim | Biogeophysics | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Koller, Bastian | Deputy Director of High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) | University of Stuttgart |
| Nowak, Wolfgang | Professor of Stochastic Simulation and Safety Research for Hydrosystems | University of Stuttgart |
| Resch, Michael | Professor of High Performance Computing, Director High Performance Computing Center | University of Stuttgart |
| Schumacher, Maike | Professor of Data Assimilation in the Earth System | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Streck, Thilo | Professor of Biogeophysics | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Troost, Christian | Land Use Economics in the Tropics and Subtropics | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Warrach-Sagi, Kirsten | Physics and Meteorology | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Wulfmeyer, Volker | Professor of Physics and Meteorology | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Project title | Start-Finish | Funding body | Annual average in 1,000 € |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOR 1695 Agricultural Landscapes under Global Climate Change – Processes and Feedbacks on a Regional Scale | 2012-2018 | DFG | 760 |
| Land-Atmosphere Feedback Observatory (LAFO) | 2017-2020 | Carl Zeiss Stiftung | 200 |
| IRTG/RTG 1829 Integrated Hydrosystem Modelling | 2012-2021 | DFG | 750 |
| SFB 1253 Catchments as Reactors (CAMPOS): Metabolism of Pollutants on the Landscape Scale | 2017-2020 | DFG | 2,383 |
| Water and Earth System Science Competence Cluster | 2009-2015 | MWK, Helmholtz | 540 |
| IRTG Climate Change Effects on Food Security (CLIFOOD) | 2017-2020 | DAAD | 500 |
| Water - People - Agriculture | 2013-2025 | Ehrmann Foundation | 231 |
| Microbial Regulation of Soil Functions in Agro-Ecosystems | 2015-2018 | Ellrichshausen Stiftun | 125 |
| Underutilized or Unprotected? New Methods for Analyzing Diverging Perspectives on the Large-Scale Conversion of Tropical Grassland Ecosystems | 2016-2019 | Ellrichshausen Stiftung | 165 |
| Phytoremediation of mercury contaminated mining sites in Ghana and Burkina Faso with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi | 2019-2022 | BMB | 400 |
| SimLearn - Completing Training Data by Iteratively Learning Simulation | 2019-2022 | BMBF / DLR | 623 |