8^th European Conference
on Precision Agriculture

8^th European Conference on Precision Agriculture
11^th - 14^th July 2011, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

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Following the tradition of the conference series that was established in Warwick, UK in 1997, the international committee would like to invite you to join the 8^th ECPA conference. The conference will be held from 11^th to 14^th July 2011 at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, in the Czech Republic. This conference strives to provide researchers and professionals with the opportunity to build connections between and among different precision agriculture professionals. The conference language is English.

The conference is co-organized with the 5^th ECPLF, the 8^th EFITA/WCCA conferences; there is an established tradition of bringing ECPA and ECPLF together.

The conference will offer a unique insight into the most recent research and development in precision agriculture. At the same time, the latest scientific results from worldwide research, field studies and practical application of these important technologies will be presented.

The main topics are as follows:

• Auto-guidance
• Sensor and sensing (e.g.soil properties, disease detection, crop growth, ..) technology and data collection
• High resolution remote sensing
• Plant scale precision
• Field robots
• Economics
• Spatial data infrastructure
• New technologies in horticulture and viniculture

Scientific committee

• John Stafford (Silsoe Solutions) - chair
• Simon Blackmore (University Robots)
• Jindřich Černý (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)
• Pavel Gnip (ISPA)
• Pavel Hamouz (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)
• Jan Jarolímek (Czech Society for Information Technologies in Agriculture)
• Raj Khosla (Colorado State University)
• Milan Kroulík (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)
• Jan Křen (Mendel University in Brno)
• František Kumhála (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)
• Jan Lipavský (Research Institute of Crop Production)
• Margaret Oliver (The University of Reading)
• Adolf Rybka (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague)