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Precision Sensing to Reduce Pollution

Explore how precision sensing technology can help reduce water pollution caused by fertilizer runoff and other sources. Learn about the potential benefits for farmers and the environment.

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Precision Sensing to Reduce Pollution

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  1. Precision Sensing to Reduce Pollution By Kody Moore

  2. Water pollution • Fertilizer runoff is a problem in many parts of the country in our rivers and streams. • Discharge from factories, refineries, etc. • Chicken and hog farm waste • Fertilizer leaches through to water tables

  3. Eutrophication • Eutrophication is increased nutrient input into water that exceeds the normal amount. • The available dissolved oxygen is then used by organisms that break down these nutrients. • These organisms lower the amount of dissolved oxygen available to other marine species (fish, aquatic plants, etc.)

  4. Fish Kills Oxygen sag curve

  5. Point vs. Non-point sources • Point source pollution • The source of the pollution can be found • Non-point source pollution • The source of the pollution cannot be found

  6. The Nitrogen Cycle

  7. Solution? • Precision sensing could be part of the solution to the fertilizer loss/pollution problem. • It has to be accessible to farmers. • Easy to use (easier then random soil sampling) • The farmer has to benefit (more money)

  8. Types of Precision Sensors • Weedseeker- • Cuts weed control costs by 80%. • Reduces environmental impact. • Greenseeker- • Average profit of $8.00 an acre. • Protimeter Grainmaster i- • Measures the moisture and temperature of crops.

  9. Types of Sensors cont. • IRROMETER tensiometer- • Provides soil moisture measurements • “prevention of groundwater pollution” • PM-48MB Photosynthesis Monitor- • Monitors CO2 exchange

  10. Post Sensing • Next something has to be done to interpret this information to the farmer. • The SBNRC (Sensor Based Nitrogen Rate Calculator) • This turns the Numbers off of the Greenseeker into numbers the farmer can use. • Then goes a step further and gives the farmer a fertilizer recommendation.

  11. Conclusion • Fertilizer pollution is one of many causes of water pollution which affects everybody in the world. • The reduction of fertilizer use would benefit the farmer in most cases. • Precision sensors can help the farmers make fertilizer, and irrigation rate recommendations.

  12. Questions??? • Dedicated to the restoration of the “infamous Ranger”!

  13. Literature cited • AgriStore Online. "PM-48MB photosynthesis monitor." Agricultural sensors, monitors, dendrometers. May 2002. 12 April 2007. http://www.agrisupportonline.com/store/Phytech/technical_data/pm-48mb.htm • Center for ecology & hydrology. "Freshwater pollution." 24 january 2007. NERC. 4 April 2007. <http://schools.ceh.ac.uk/advanced/freshpoll/freshpoll_fig3.htm>. • Cornell University. "Increasing Nitrogen Pollution In Nation's." Science Daily. 27 February 2005. 4 April 2007. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223140534.htm>. • "IRROMETER Co." n.d. 12 April 2007. <http://www.irrometer.com/agcat.htm>. • New Hampshire Department of Dnvironmental Science. "Lake Biology." 1995. 4 April 2007. <http://www.des.state.nh.us/factsheets/bb/bb-3.htm>. • Ntech industries. "Webseeker." 2007. 12 April 2007. <http://www.ntechindustries.com/weedseeker-home.html>. • Phytech technologies. "Phytomonitoring." n.d. 12 April 2007. http://www.agrisupportonline.com/phy/introduction.html • "Protimeter grainmaster i." General electric company. 2006. April 4, 2007. <http://www.gesensing.com/products/prot_graini.htm>.

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