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Precision Farming at plant protection –sensors, requirements for sprayers
Timo Kovermann, Product management
Product management
Tasks for plant protection machinery in combination with sensors or application maps
Information
Sprayer
Plant
Sensor
Task:
Application of right amount of activecomponent in optimal way to thetarget / plant
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Data exchange and compatibility1 Complete Field Management
– Tasks− ISO-XML
Part Field Management– Application Maps
− ISO-XML− Shape
– Online Sensors− ASD
– Map Overlay (Sensor + Maps)− ASD + Shape/ISO-XML
Single Plant Management– Online Sensors
− Real Time Communication
Implements
Tractors
Terminals
Software &Sensors
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Variation of the application rate
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Ausbringmenge l/ha
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ID 05160 – 280 l/ha
ID 03 + ID 05250 - 450 l/ha
ID 03100 – 170 l/ha
100 to 450 l/ha AHL with ID nozzles sizes 03 and 05Selected pressure range of the nozzle between 1 and 3 bar
• 0.7 to 2.9 l/min/nozzle• 42 to 174 l/min for 30 m booms
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AmaSelect - The innovative nozzle control
Electrical 4-fold single nozzle control
DUS pro high pressure circulation
Conical spray line forminimising residual quantities
50 cm part width section with automatic GPS part width section control
LED single nozzle illumination integrated in the nozzle body
Interesting special optional equipment with 25 cm nozzle spacing or HighFlow application technology
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Minimal overlap of part width sections
Comparison using the example of the 27 m Super-L2 boom9 part width sections à 3 m 3 m x 3 m / 2 x 9 = 40.50 m2
54 single nozzles à 0.5 m 0.5 m x 0.5 m / 2 x 54 = 6.75 m2 ≙ 83 % less overlap area
Compared to manual control, the GPS switch already offers resource savings of 3 % to 8 %
With AmaSelect and 50 cm part width sections, overlaps can be reduced to minimal areas and plant protection products can be precisely applied
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50 cm part width sections – Saving of plant protection products
Example:• Field crop farm• 1800 ha arable land• UX 11200, 36 m, 13 part width sections
Procedure for the assessment:
Analysis of real field runs and area structures
Surface area(field
boundary)Worked area Overlapping
area
Important:All runs without additional overlapping from SectionControl
• Overlap on the field is only caused by part width section sizes!
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Sample areas:Result with 13 part width sections:• Ø field size: 52.41 ha• Ø worked area: 54.18 ha
• Ø overlap: 1.74 ha 4.51 %
• 50 cm part width sections (72 part width sections)• Ø overlap: 0.32 ha 0.81%
Efficiency:• Field area: 1800 ha
• Fraction of overlap: • 13 part width sections: 81.23 ha• 50 cm part width sections: 14.67 ha
• Savings: 66.56 ha• Costs for plant protection products: 200 euro / ha per year
Savings of plant protection products: 13,313.00 euro/year
50 cm part width sections – Saving in practice
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Single plant application by spot spraying4Problem The application of total herbicide is generally
performed over the full area The weed distribution is irregular and never over the
full area The active substance must be applied onto the green
plants and not on the soil.
Treatment of the individual plants is the ecological and economical optimum.
Solution approach The intelligent AmaSpot system only wets
the green plants Compared to full area application, the
intelligent AmaSpot system achieves 20 to 80 % savings of plant protection products!
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AmaSpot – System layout, side view
AmaSpotNozzle control
SpotFan 40-03 Injector nozzleDetectionEffect
60 cm
Application
GreenSenseOnline sensorDriving direction
100 cm2
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All components are perfectly integrated in the boom The electrical nozzle control is installed directly on the nozzle
block
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AmaSpot – System layout, schematic top view
Each sensor with four individual channels per metre controls four electrically controlled nozzles at a spacing of 25 cm
50 Hz switching frequency through pulse width frequency modulation (PWFM)
Fluorescence measurement is very precise and tolerant towardsdust and varying light conditions and ensures reliable plant detection
25 cm
100 cm
25 cm
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AmaSpot operating modes
Three different operating modes can be selected depending on the application.
• On/off switching− Maximum savings− Risk of residual weeds
• On/off switching with full area reduced basic spraying− High savings− High efficacy
• Complete full area spraying− No savings− For applications that do not allow
reductions
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Driving direction
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System layout of the functional pattern
Work rate• Working speeds up to 20 km/h• Active sensor technology for operation day and night
Reliability• Several years of testing in Kazakhstan and Russia• Testing area of more than 20,000 ha
View of the functional pattern
View when operating at nightSingle nozzle during application
Optical sensor with fluorescence measurement
Nozzle control with pulse width frequency modulation2
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