We invite you to the next PSNC Open Seminar, which will be held on Monday, May 9, 2022 at 2:30 pm. The speaker will be Dr Rafał Pudełko from the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation State Research Institute. The Seminar will be held in a hybrid form and will be available online on the Webex platform.
The moderator of the meeting, organised within PSNC Open Seminars series entitled “Challenges for the IT infrastructure of science in the era of digital transformation”, will be Juliusz Pukacki, Head of of the Data Engineering and Analytical Platforms Department at PSNC.
The meeting will be held on the Webex platform at 2:30 pm: https://tiny.pl/9s8mh
Rafał Pudełko. Trained as a geographer. Graduate of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. Participant of 3 polar expeditions to H. Arctowski Station in Antarctica. Since 2001, he has been asscociated with the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation (IUNG) in Pulawy, Poland. In 2005, he obtained a PhD degree in agricultural sciences in agronomy on the basis of a thesis entitled: “Evaluation of spatial data interpolation methods for the purposes of precision agriculture”. He received his postdoctoral degree in 2014 on the basis of his habilitation thesis titled: “Assessement of by-product and waste biomass potentials in the EU-27 and Switzerland and their regionalization”. Since 2015, he has been the Head of the Department of Bioeconomy and Systems Analysis at IUNG-PIB.
Conducting research and development work, he mainly uses tools from Geographic Information Systems packages. Since 2008, he has been developing the Agricultural Drought Monitoring System run at the Institute in the field of geostatistics and remote sensing. Within the framework of the Targeted Grant from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, he is responsible for construction of the Biomass Monitoring System, remote sensing and modelling of flooding and permanent grasslands watter logging (for the purposes of implementation of Package 9 of the DRSP RDP).
Summary of the presentation entitled “Monitoring systems for agricultural production space – assumptions, barriers and opportunities for development”.
The presentation was prepared according to the following plan:
– Strategy for the development of Monitoring systems for agricultural production space
– Examples of implementation
– Definition of needs and directions of development
– Limitations
– Center of Geomatics for Agriculture (KPO)
In accordance with the above scenario, the first part discusses the monitoring systems developed at IUNG-PIB and the tools and methods that constitute the scientific workshop. Then, two examples of implementation were presented: The Agricultural Drought Monitoring System and the TUZ Monitoring System for Flooding and Waterlogging.
When defining the needs and directions of research carried out at the Institute, attention was drawn to possible cooperation with the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, mainly in the field of implementation of the new solutions in the field of GIS, requiring high performance computing power and disk resources. Potential limitations that may have an impact on the cooperation already undertaken have also been indicated. The last part of the presentation focused on the concept of the Geomatics Center for Agriculture, the construction of which is planned by IUNG in Pulawy, Poland, funded from the National Reconstruction Plan.
