Location: Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory
Project Number: 8042-22000-167-118-S
Project Type: Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Sep 1, 2024
End Date: Jun 30, 2025
Objective:
In order to make agriculture more precise and sustainable, farmers need site-specific recommendation systems to aid in their decision making. The overall goal of this project is to develop web-based decision support tools on conservation vegetation management including cover crops.
Approach:
A team of full-stack developers, designers, and applied domain experts will collaborate on the development of web-based tools for agricultural conservation management. Several design sprints will be initiated for select tools. After several iterations, the finalized designs will be provided to programmers. Back-end of all tools will be integrated to enable data sharing between apps by building an API network and shared databases. A geo-spatial module will be integrated for ingesting satellite and low-cost camera images or other spatial data layers to drive too responses. To ensure maintainability of the code base, "continuous integration/continuous deployment" pipeline will be implemented to ensure that the apps can be improved over time and that security is maintained as web protocols evolve. A uniform documentation system will be employed so that NRCS can choose to take over app maintenance if/when they choose.
