My final slides for IPMU 2008. My presentation is scheduled for Thursday, June 26th, in the „Applications II“ section. The corresponding paper can be downloaded at our working group’s publication database.

In this post I referred to an upcoming paper that we were preparing for submitting to the SGAI AI-2008. The paper is currently in the reviewing process. If you’re interested, the draft can be downloaded from our research group’s publication database. Feel free to read it and leave your comments in this blog.

My slides for IPMU 2008, at least as a draft, as the conference is still some days away.

Recently, I was looking up one of the sensor attributes that I’m using in my data sets (REIP32) and the google search responded with exactly six hits, of which the first and third referred to this very blog. The second hit yielded a presentation of Peter Wagner, who happens to be the head of the working group at Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg that I received the data from. Since I’m preparing slides for my end-of-month talk at IPMU2008 and if someone wants to see a thorough view on what work has been done so far in this area, have a look at his slides (pdf, 2.5MB). My talk is likely to meander along the same lines, but I’ll probably emphasize the data mining and modeling aspects.

I will probably also show the talk and my slides to the students in next week’s exercise courses, just to give them an idea of what can be done with neural networks. It helps me in explaining and it fits perfectly, since the course is on „Neural Networks“ anyway.

In der heutigen Ausgabe (03.Juni 2008) der F.A.Z. findet sich erneut ein Artikel zum Thema Precision Farming (PF), diesmal auf Seite T6 im Teil „Technik und Motor“. Viel Neues steht für mich persönlich nicht drin, eine kurze Zusammenfassung:

• kurze Einleitung mit der Begründung der Notwendigkeit von PF
• recht häufige Erwähnung von Claas
• Erwähnung des Crop Meters, eines Pendelsensors, der den Widerstand der Halme mißt und daraus auf den Bestand schließt
• Beschreibung eines Parallelfahrversuchs
• Erwähnung von GPS mit lokalem Korrektursignal
• Dienstleistungsmodell: elektronische Datenerfassung, Ertrags- und Erfolgskontrolle, Dokumentation

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