Agriculture and digital sustainability: A digitization footprint

Sammanfattning

The growing availability and capabilities of sensing and communication infrastructures such as monitoring stations, proximal and remote sensing technologies, geolocation systems, and standard communication protocols, along with apparently decreasing costs of the same technologies are pushing widespread collection, implementation, transmission and use of digitized information in agriculture. Such an uncontrolled process poses questions on sustainability of the virtual environment (i.e. a software-based space) where such processes take place. The aim of the present work is to introduce a digitization footprint (DF), which parameterizes the amount of digital information so as to quantify the specific or general use of digital or processing information in terms of volumes, time, efforts or costs invested for data storage, processing or transfer. Such a digitization footprint can be directly related to the availability and suitability of the digital resources in terms of costs (storage, transfer, processing, cloud computing), and speed (processing, upload, download), and can help define pathways for effective and widespread development.

Nyckelord

Big data; Data management; Digitization; Virtual environment

Publicerad i

Titel: Precision agriculture ’19
Utgivare: Wageningen Academic Publishers

Konferens

12th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2019, 8-11 July, Montpellier, France

SLU författare

• Stenberg, Bo

  • Institutionen för mark och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Systemvetenskap

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-888-9_9
• ISBN: 9789086863372
• eISBN: 978-90-8686-888-9

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/129945