Precision Agriculture
Delivered by University College Dublin
Principles and theories that underpin the concept of Precision Agriculture.
- Starts January 2023
- Blended Teaching
- 5 Credits
- NFQ Level 8
- Course Fees: €875
delivered by UCD, ATU Sligo and TU Dublin
This programme consists of a suite of modules aimed at students and industry professionals who wish to build their knowledge and skills-base to address the complexities of developing, deploying, and managing digital technology in the agriculture sector. With a focus on design, numeracy and hardware and software technology, our students are committed and engaged with agricultural production, and specifically technology to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and reliability. Technologies of interest range from data science methods, artificial intelligence, computer systems, networks, data management and sensors through machinery systems to precision agriculture.
Principles and theories that underpin the concept of Precision Agriculture.
Principles and theories that underpin the concept of precision livestock management .
Principles and theories that underpin the concept of precision livestock management .
Understand the basic principles, practice and applications of optical spectroscopic sensing.
Apply numerical methods to solving a range of problems.
An introduction to the study of Animal Science.
An overview of crop production globally and in Ireland.
Crop production systems, concepts and considers various factors involved in crop production.
Fundamentals of Arable Crop Production.
Challenges that climate change presents to agriculture and other land uses.
Soils, descriptions, nature and diversity of soil organisms plus the response of soils to management practices.
Production and utilisation of a range crops such as potatoes, oilseed rape, faba beans and fodder crops.
Basic principles, practice and applications of hyperspectral imaging.
Understand and become critically aware of the basic principles, practice and applications of hyperspectral imaging.
Basic introduction to soil science.
Overview of key environmental challenges exploring the potential impacts of these on human populations.
Basic plant science with the objectives of plant production systems.
Overview of the main concepts of organic farming.
Overview of Cereal Production.
Address the complexities of developing and managing digital technology.
Address the complexities of developing and managing digital technology.
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