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What’s New

	Pioneer’s Newsletter Addresses Valve Of GPS-Based Field Records: The value of GPS-based field records was recently addressed in the “Crop Insights” newsletter published by Pioneer. The newsletter provides examples of some typical time- and geo-referenced field records, a listing of commonly used time- and geo-referenced information in GPS-based field records and describes how to use a GIS to create new spatial information. (5/7/01)
	CSREES Announces Joint Program With NASA On The Application Of Geospatial & Precision Technologies: The Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) and the Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are soliciting proposals for the Application of Geospatial and Precision Technologies Program, per the Federal Register of March 16, 2001. A “Letter of Intent” is requested and due by April 11, 2001. Proposals must be received by May 9, 2001. For full details of this RFP, see the Federal Register website, click on “Friday, March 16, 2001″; then scroll down to Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service. For further information from CSREES, contact J. Preston Jones (phone:             202-401-1990      ) or Raymond Knighton (phone:             202-401-6417      ). In ESE, contact Rodney McKellip (phone:             228-688-2984      ) or Nathan Sovik (phone:             228-688-7355      ). (3/19/01)
	NCR-180 Annual Meeting Minutes Now Available For Review: Available for review are the minutes of the annual meeting of NCR-180, held January 4-6, 2001 in Madison, Wisconsin. (2/23/01)
	Third International Conference On Geospatial Information In Agriculture & Foresty To Be Held November 5-7: The Third International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry to be held November 5-7, 2001 in Denver, Colorado, will focus on the latest developments in advanced geospatial data and information technologies. The conference will explore technologies to improve today’s decision making while defining future research requirements and implementation strategies. The three-day technical program will offer more than 300 presentations in plenary and interactive poster sessions, with workshops and exhibits of products and services. Visit the conference website at www.erim-int.con/CONF/ag.html for more information. (2/23/01)
	Precision Ag Group (NCR-180) To Continue Its Good Work :During the Annual NCR-180 meeting held January 4-6, at the Concourse Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin, one of the key issues of discussion by the committee was the request to extend NCR-180 Site-Specific Management programs until 2005. An extensively revised document detailing the committee’s request has been sent to Dr. Glenn Hoffman, the Administrative Advisor from the University of Nebraska. Two new groups were also formed at the meeting. The first group led by Don Bullock will coordinate the development of an upper division textbook for site-specific management (SSM). The second group will explore other scientific publishing opportunities, which could be modeled after the Advances in Agronomy series. Pete Nowak, Fran Pierce and Don Bullock will lead this effort. The next meeting will be held next year at Penn State.NCR-180 represents researchers from land grant university experiment stations that are working in precision agriculture. Committee members meet once annually and share research summaries. (1/11/01)
	Con-Ag Multiplexing Task Force August Meeting Minutes Now Available For Review: Minutes from the August Con-Ag Multiplexing Task Force Meeting held in Boston, MA are now online for review. (9/22/00)
	Minutes From The ASAE PM-54 February Meeting Now Online: Minutes from the February 25, 2000, ASAE PM-54, Precision Agriculture Committee meeting held in Kansas City, MO, are now available for review. A copy of the attendee roster is also available. PM-54 deals with precision agriculture. Currently, the committee is addresses two standards: Yield Monitor Performance Test Standard and Yield Monitor Field Test Engineering Procedure. (4/7/00)
	Productive ISO Agricultural Equipment Standards Meetings Held Last Week in Frankfurt: A full week’s worth of international standards meetings pertaining to agricultural equipment issues concluded last week in Frankfurt, Germany with positive progress being made on a number of standards dealing with equipment, testing and safety. The electronics subcommittee (SC 19) ended the long-running and disruptive controversy on the continued request “to modify” the animal identification standards (ISO 11784 & 11785) by resolving that the standards are published; are being used; are generally well received globally; and will not be discussed again until they are up for five year review in 2001. Also, the series of mobile equipment electronics standards (ISO 11783 Parts 1-11) are nearing completion after many years of hard work. Separately, future discussions are planned for “moving” the development of safety standards from CEN to ISO. The first official joint meeting to discuss the process and structure for doing this will be held May 19 in Frankfurt. (3/30/00)
	A*E*A Transfer Support Layer Working Committee Meeting Notes: Meeting notes from the April 6-7 A*E*A Software Information Council Transfer Support Layer (TSL) Working Committee, held in Rosemont, Illinois, are now available on the website. (4/26/99)
	German LBS Mobile BUS Update: To view the PowerPoint presentation by Rudolf Zens from LAV on the German LBS Mobile Agriculture BUS, click here. To download the actual PowerPoint presentation, click here.
	LBS Documentation Version 2.0 Now Available Through LAV: The German Association of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers (LAV) recently published version 2.0 of the LBS specifications. Since the publication of Version 1.0 of the LBS Documentation in February 1997, many things have happened. The standard parts DIN 9684-4 and DIN 9684-5 were finished within the comments-resolution meeting, the R&D project on the LBS which was promoted by the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (BML) was completed, many manufacturers in Germany and in Europe have taken up the idea of LBS and have started developing LBS components, and the international standardization work has progressed with keen input by LBS and J1939 concepts.To obtain a copy of the 335-page document, send an e-mail to the German Association of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers (LAV), Lyoner Strasse 18, D-60528 Frankfurt, Germany. Several files which can be downloaded from LAV’s website, provide short descriptions of the LBS, a survey about the modifications and amendments effected in version 2.0 and the status of the international standards project ISO 11783. (10/29/98)
	A*E*A’s New Transfer Support Layer (TSL) Specification Previewed at Precision Ag Conference on July 20:The recently completed draft version of the A*E*A Transfer Support Layer (TSL) Specification was unveiled on Monday, July 20, 1998, at the Fourth International Conference on Precision Agriculture in St. Paul, MN. The session, titled “TSL: What It Is and How It Will Facilitate the Exchange of Computerized Agricultural Data,” began with a brief TSL overview/primer, followed by a presentation on test implementation and an informal implementor question and answer session.TSL facilitates the exchange of computerized agricultural data, particularly data with spatial content, by providing a standardized framework for identifying and describing the data sets to be exchanged. Rather than define a particular spatial data format, TSL is intended to be used with a variety of existing formats, both proprietary and public domain, that are widely used in the precision agriculture community — including ESRI’s Shapefile® format, MapInfo’s MID/MIF® format and the common CMV (comma-separated-value) format. The intent is to automate both the export and import sides of the process.The presentation was made by Darrin Drollinger of the Ag Electronics Association (A*E*A), David Stigberg of USA-CERL, Ted Macy of AGRIS Corp. and Roger Burkhart of Deere & Company (and TSL Technical Working Group leader). (7/21/98)
	A*E*A Transfer Support Layer Specification Draft Document: A draft copy of the Transfer Support Layer (TSL) Specification document is now available for review and comments. (7/16/98)
	Revised Version Of The ANSI Spatial Data Transfer Standard Now Available: USGS has now made available an official PDF version of the ANSI draft SDTS standard. To read the standard online or download a copy vist USGS’s website at http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/standard.html. (2/19/98)

	Precision Ag Group (NCR-180) To Continue Its Good Work :During the Annual NCR-180 meeting held January 4-6, at the Concourse Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin, one of the key issues of discussion by the committee was the request to extend NCR-180 Site-Specific Management programs. An extensively revised document detailing the committee’s request has been sent to Dr. Glenn Hoffman, the Administrative Advisor from the University of Nebraska. Two new groups were also formed at the meeting. The first group led by Don Bullock will coordinate the development of an upper division textbook for site-specific management (SSM). The second group will explore other scientific publishing opportunities, which could be modeled after the Advances in Agronomy series. Pete Nowak, Fran Pierce and Don Bullock will lead this effort. The next meeting will be held next year at Penn State.NCR-180 represents researchers from land grant university experiment stations that are working in precision agriculture. Committee members meet once annually and share research summaries.
	NCR-180 Annual Meeting Agenda Now Online: The agenda for the January 4-6,  annual meeting to be held at the Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin are now available for review on A*E*A’s website.
	Minutes Of The Annual Meeting Of NCR-180 Now Available For Review: Available for review are the minutes of the annual meeting of NCR-180, held January 6-8,  in Bozeman, Montana. The next NCR-180 meeting will be held in Madison, Wisconsin from noon on Thursday, January 4 until noon on Saturday.
	Con-Ag Multiplexing Task Force August Meeting Minutes Now Available For Review: Minutes from the August Con-Ag Multiplexing Task Force Meeting held in Boston, MA are now online for review. (9/22/00)
	Minutes From The ASAE PM-54 February Meeting Now Online: Minutes from the February 25, 2000, ASAE PM-54, Precision Agriculture Committee meeting held in Kansas City, MO, are now available for review. A copy of the attendee roster is also available. PM-54 deals with precision agriculture. Currently, the committee is addresses two standards: Yield Monitor Performance Test Standard and Yield Monitor Field Test Engineering Procedure. (4/7/00)
	Productive ISO Agricultural Equipment Standards Meetings Held Last Week in Frankfurt: A full week’s worth of international standards meetings pertaining to agricultural equipment issues concluded last week in Frankfurt, Germany with positive progress being made on a number of standards dealing with equipment, testing and safety. The electronics subcommittee (SC 19) ended the long-running sony ericsson and disruptive controversy on the continued request “to modify” the animal identification standards (ISO 11784 & 11785) by resolving that the standards are published; are being used; are generally well received globally; and will not be discussed again until they are up for five year review in 2001. Also, the series of mobile equipment electronics standards (ISO 11783 Parts 1-11) are nearing completion after many years of hard work. Separately, future discussions are planned for “moving” the development of safety standards from CEN to ISO. The first official joint meeting to discuss the process and structure for doing this will be held May 19 in Frankfurt. (3/30/00)
	A*E*A Transfer Support Layer Working Committee Meeting Notes: Meeting notes from the April 6-7 A*E*A Software Information Council Transfer Support Layer (TSL) Working Committee, held in Rosemont, Illinois, are now available on the website. (4/26/99)
	German LBS Mobile BUS Update: To view the PowerPoint presentation by Rudolf Zens from LAV on the German LBS Mobile Agriculture BUS, click here. To download the actual PowerPoint presentation, click here.
	LBS Documentation Version 2.0 Now Available Through LAV: The German Association of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers (LAV) recently published version 2.0 of the LBS specifications. Since the publication of Version 1.0 of the LBS Documentation in February 1997, many things have happened. The standard parts DIN 9684-4 and DIN 9684-5 were finished within the comments-resolution meeting, the R&D project on the LBS which was promoted by the German Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (BML) was completed, many manufacturers in Germany and in Europe have taken up the idea of ipad LBS and have started developing LBS components, and the international standardization work has progressed with keen input by LBS and J1939 concepts.To obtain a copy of the 335-page document, send an e-mail to the German Association of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers (LAV), Lyoner Strasse 18, D-60528 Frankfurt, Germany. Several files which can be downloaded from LAV’s website, provide short descriptions of the LBS, a survey about the modifications and amendments effected in version 2.0 and the status of the international standards project ISO 11783. (10/29/98)
	A*E*A’s New Transfer Support Layer (TSL) Specification Previewed at Precision Ag Conference on July 20:The recently completed draft version of the A*E*A Transfer Support Layer (TSL) Specification was unveiled on Monday, July 20, 1998, at the Fourth International Conference on Precision Agriculture in St. Paul, MN. The session, titled “TSL: What It Is and How It Will Facilitate the Exchange of Computerized Agricultural Data,” began with a brief TSL overview/primer, followed by a presentation on test implementation and an informal implementor question and answer session.TSL facilitates the exchange of computerized agricultural data, particularly data with spatial content, by providing a standardized framework for samsung identifying and describing the data sets to be exchanged. Rather than define a particular spatial data format, TSL is intended to be used with a variety of existing formats, both proprietary and public domain, that are widely used in the precision agriculture community — including ESRI’s Shapefile® format, MapInfo’s MID/MIF® format and the common CMV (comma-separated-value) format. The intent is to automate both the export and import sides of the process.The presentation was made by Darrin Drollinger of the Ag Electronics Association (A*E*A), David Stigberg of USA-CERL, Ted Macy of AGRIS Corp. and Roger Burkhart of Deere & Company (and TSL Technical Working Group leader). (7/21/98)
	A*E*A Transfer Support Layer Specification Draft Document: A draft copy of the Transfer Support Layer (TSL) Specification document is now available for review and comments. (7/16/98)
	Revised Version Of The ANSI Spatial Data Transfer Standard Now Available: USGS has now made available an official PDF version of the ANSI draft SDTS standard. To read the standard online or download a copy vist USGS’s website at http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/standard.html. (2

User Council

Varel Bailey Chairman

User Council members include farmers and other users of ag electronics tools. This council works on issues including common data standards, data content, methods of data analysis and specific language to be included in contracts with suppliers to protect the intellectual property rights of ag producers. The A*E*A User Council held an initial conference in December 1996. The conclusions from the focused sessions are as follows:

User Council

Round Table Discussion IV — Road Map to the Future

Team One

A*E*A Guidelines/Priorities

• Data Standardization — Inter-operability
• Hardware — Inter-operability
• Don’t reinvent the “wheel”
• Standardize connectors between hardware components
• Good plug and play
• Too many boxes in cab, no room for operator
• Airplane cockpit
• User-governed data base
• What is a “spot”?
• What is a weed control boundary around a “spot”?

5 Priorities for Advancing the

State of the Art of “Electronics on Agriculture”

• Software/hardware inter-operability standards
• Plug and play
• Virtual Terminal
• Univ. Research/Investigator

a. spot size

b. “boundaries” sizing for weed controls with chemical company approval

• Database structure and governance procedure – User Council similar to EMI database

Roundtable Discussion IV – Road Map to the Future

Team Two

A*E*A Guidelines/Priorities

• Complete interchange ability and compatibility between manufacturers and service/software providers
• Plug and play simplicity
• Need a meaningful A*E*A standard, guideline, or sticker
• Provide a forum for discussion between users and suppliers
• Training and technical support for “products” in the market
• Keep “data warehouse” alive (other associations)
• Educate the user population on the concept
• Can A*E*A promote adoption of SSF?
• A*E*A to promote and support T&E sessions
• A*E*A newsletter
• Identify what unique capability A*E*A has vs. any other group
• Create a speaker forum of users at the next A*E*A
• Channel information form users to software writers
• Pre-meeting survey from users on issues
• Provide time to review/discuss/resolve technical issues and questions for users (Trade show)

Round Table Discussion IV — Road Map to the Future

Team Three

A*E*A Guidelines/Priorities

• A*E*A encourage and continue the dialogue between user, industry, MFG, experts, research, etc.
• Communication standards:

a. machine-machine

b. software-software

c. machine-man

• Multi-function monitor – recording/controlling
• Data ownership – legal issues
• Data accuracy/reliability:

a. GPS

b. yield

c. quality

• Protein and on the go soil analysis (sensors)

What Problem am I Solving?

• How to get information into research centers for analysis as to what should be done
• Standard for accuracy of data collected
• Standards for data presentation
• System’s research

Five Priorities for Advancing the

State of the Art of “Electronics on Agriculture”

• Continuity between brands for information comparison
• Easy transfer of data from machine to programs
• Communication standards between software programs
• Simplicity and ease of operations
• Legal standing of data ownership

What to Measure Other Than Yield?

• Data ownership
• Monitor to do multiple things, (spray, harvest, etc.)
• Clear list of technology needs
• One monitor – different disks for each machine
• Multi – task units
• More reliability out of GPS signal

Training/Guidelines for Using Data

After Collecting

• Plug and play technology
• Data integrity
• Standardization acceleration
• Cost effective
• Ease of use/simplicity
• Tools for error and accuracy information
• Continue with data dictionary

Roundtable Discussion IV — Road Map to the Future

Team Four

A*E*A Priorities

• Data Exchange STD’s – compatibility (HW & SW)
• Data analysis tools
• Freedom to develop personal prescriptions
• Gap between science/technology and expectations (and understanding of financial limitations)
• Data quality ( collection, validation, use, application, what?, why?, how?) metadata definition
• Flow through/open architecture
• STD connectors – plug and play
• Accuracy and limitations
• Inter-process communications
• Communications – OEMS, End users
• User interface

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Guidelines

• Promote user interface
• Continue user council
• Promote access of A*E*A information on Internet
• Expand user council
• Promote A*E*A through shows, publications

• Explain purpose Equipment Council
  

  Terry Pickett Chairman

  Equipment Council members include farm machinery, crop production, “materials” application equipment and farmstead equipment manufacturers. Compatibility with precision farming software, a standardized data “reader” interface between chemical labels and machines, environmental standards, livestock issues, development of a database standard and common communication structure are all part of this council’s work focus.

   

   

Hardware Council

Charlie Stamp Chairman

The Software/Information Systems Council consists of member companies of A*E*A who are actively engaged in developing software for the agricultural market. These include OEMs, agricultural products companies, and service organizations, as well as companies whose primary products are software. The council has dedicated significant efforts toward the development of standardized spatial data exchange. The treatment of static and dynamic spatial data exchange is within the scope of the council’s work, and to facilitate data transfer A*E*A has under development data dictionary specifications for yield (grain crops), soil fertility and application crop plan characteristics.

Text of Partners and Friends (in Portuguese)

apple
Entretanto, de acordo com dell informações da agência EFE, a confusão teria começado por causa de pessoas que tentaram furar a fila, deixando duas pessoas feridas. A agência iphone 4 afirma que um homem “estrangeiro, com uniforme da Apple teria usado um pedaço de pau e punhos”, para agredir aqueles que tentavam tomar lugar de outros clientes na fila, o que teria quebrado uma das portas de vidro da loja.

tv
A cobertura de Marcos Uchôa, acer que mostra a transição de poder na Líbia, também chamou a atenção no “Jornal Nacional”. Na última quinta-feira (25/08), William Bonner deu um puxão de orelha ao vivo no repórter.

video

Digite a URL de qualquer vídeo do celulares YouTube, MyVideo, Clipfish, Sevenload, Dailymotion ou página do MySpace, clique em ‘Converter’ e este aplicativo irá rapidamente capturar o ipod arquivo de vídeo em flash e extrair o áudio co mo MP3 baixavel. Dependendo do tamanho do arquivo, pode levar um minuto mais – por favor, tenha paciência.

nokia

Comeram cocô de ornitorrinco. Fato. O MeeGo foi xbox 360 anunciado ao público em Fevereiro de 2010. Só para dar uma idéia o Android foi anunciado ANTES do iPhone. A ÚNICA coisa que suporta o MeeGO é aquela pataquada do N900, que parecia lindo na teoria, ao vivo mas na prática vendeu menos que a sex tape do Tiririca.

motorola

Mas a partir de abril está saindo lote de aparelhos com a lente amarela. Só dar uma pesquisada, como é novo muita gente não acredita nas pessoas que diz que tem, só quem tem o aparelho mesmo.

O seu peso é de 113 gramas e suas dimensões são de 62×119,50×11,65 mm. Como todo bom celular smartphone, o PRO+ também oferta sensor de proximidade de brilho, acelerômetro e bateria de 1.600 mAh.

O aplicativo de música é intuitivo, mostrando as capas e permitindo a criação de listas. E o Xoom ainda oferece um programa básico para edição de vídeos.

notebook

Tá decidido: de hoje em diante, sempre farei videos de unboxing que qualquer coisa comprada online. Inclusive miojos.

playstation

Em  setembro de 2004 , foi lançado o V12 ou SCPH-70000. Disponível em ps3 novembro de 2004, é menor do que a versão antiga e inclui uma porta Ethernet. Em alguns lugares também inclui um modem. Além do tamanho e peso foram reduzidos a 230 mm de altura, 152 mm de largura e 28 mm de profundidade (ou seja, menos 32%).

xbox

Na tentativa de poupar tempo de gravação acabamos usando a velocidade  Max.  da mercado livre unidade gravadora, isso é errado. Como já disse acima, o leitor do xbox360 é muito sensível e ele foi desenvolvido assim propositalmente na tentativa de evitar pirataria, então temos que executar gravações perfeitas da imagem. E para fazer isso na velocidade máxima de uma unidade gravadora gps você irá precisar de uma configuração de hardware muito poderosa(processador, cpu, memória, unidade gravadora) para sincronizar o buffer de gravação c/ o buffer da gravadora e provavelmente não irá conseguir, o que causará o aborto da gravação ou a gravação com pequenos erros de integridade.

wii

Em uma série de vídeos, a apresentação da Nintendo mostrou como polishop o novo sistema permite uma interação direta entre o touchscreen e a televisão. Os games e controles para o Wii serão compatíveis com o Wii U e alguns jogos serão compatíveis em ambos.

Fale da sala de sua casa com a sala da casa de seus familiares e amigos pelo mundo sem a necessidade de um controle ou de um fone de ouvido. Video Kinect para Xbox 360 permite você conversar através da sua TV com controles por voz e gestos, tornando a experiência da conversa tão boa quanto a real.

gps

O seu sistema de base de sucção (que vimos pela primeira vez no  TomTom One ) é simples netbook e fácil de fixar: basta pressioná-lo contra uma base de contato ( como o para-brisa) e girar o disco no sentido horário para a posição travada. Obviamente para que a fixação seja perfeita é recomendado que tanto o disco de sucção quanto a base de contato estejam perfeitamente limpos, livres de pó e gordura. Note também que esse modelo possui um generoso alto-falante que emite as mensagens de voz de maneira alta e clara. Como esse GPS lg não possui player de música, ele não possui saída de som nem seu falante é estéreo.

celular

O Gerenciador de Aplicações é o software responsável pela instalação, execução e remoção do celular com 2 chips Midlet no dispositivo móvel. Ele é dependente do dispositivo onde está instalado, projetado e implementado pelo fabricante do dispositivo e é uma solução proprietária. Portanto, o aplicativo pode apresentar comportamentos diferentes em cada dispositivo.

apple

Se os tablets de hoje são o que são, devem isso à Apple. Apesar de nenhum deles chegar aos pés do aparelho da maçã, eles alcançaram sim um relativo sucesso.

notebook

Enfim, apesar de não dispor das placas gráficas mais atuais da AMD ATI, que são as séries HD5000, a  AMD ATI Mobility Radeon HD4550  no  HP DV4-2040BR  já é bem superior ao processador Intel HD Graphics presente no  HP DV4-2030BR . Em termos de CPU, memória e sistema operacional, porém, não há qualquer diferença entre eles.

Se você gosta de assistir à filmes em alta definição, os recursos da motorola tela do notebook Samsung 900X3A irão te surpreender! Sua tela de 13.3″ LED HD não reflexiva possui alguns diferenciais que proporcionam uma incrível experiência visual. Com 16 milhões de cores e brilho de 400 nits, sua tela apresenta detalhes mais nítidos e cores mais vibrantes, com brilho 81% maior do que a tela de um notebook convencional.

PlayStation_3

A atualização de firmware 3.21 é nokia mandatória para acessar a PlayStation Network e como tal, vários recursos como: jogos online e acesso a PlayStation Store estão indisponíveis para àqueles que escolherem não atualizar. Adicionalmente, à necessidade do firmware 3.21 ou posterior para jogos futuros e asus perfis BD mais recentes para filmes Blu-ray pode tornar a reprodução de tais impossível sem a atualização apropriada.