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| Author(s): |
Juliano Crivelenti Garcia Leal
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. , gráficos, ilustrações, tabelas. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2002-07-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Antonio Balastreire;
Paulo Sergio Graziano Magalhaes;
Tomaz Caetano Cannavam Ripoli
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| Advisor: | Luiz Antonio Balastreire |
| Field of knowledge: | Agronomical Sciences - Agricultural Engineering |
| Indexed in: | Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS; Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações - USP |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca Central da Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz; ESALQ-BC/t633.73; L435m |
| Abstract | |
The adoption of the Precision Agriculture concepts has been growing in Brazil. Precision Agriculture is based on the knowledge and management of space variability of all production factors. The yield mapping is considered an essential and indispensable step in the process to optimize production through application of crop information and advanced technology. The objetive of this research was to obtain a yield map for a coffee crop an automatic weighing system, by adapting, constructing and using the system was made of a steel structure supported by four load cells containing a big bag, which served as a grain tank. A real time DGPS was used with a rover antena and a GPS recever on the harvester and a base antenna and GPS recever to calculate the differential correction signal, wich was received by an FM radio.With this system the yield map for a coffee crop was obtained for an area of 4 ha. The average yield of the area was 4226 kg.ha -1 , the lowest and highest productivities were 1284 kg.ha -1 and 6326 kg.ha -1 respectively.The main advantages of the automatic weighing system developed in this study were the possibility of direct obtaining the coffee beans weight without the need of sensors to determine the moisture or density of the harvested material, and the easyness and simplicity to calibrate the system. (AU) | |