e-Agriculture Update : Week 1 round up on the introduction to drones learning activity
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The e-Agriculture Team launched the “introduction to drones in agriculture’ learning activity. This self-learning activity is intended to increase the appreciation of drones to members and followers of the e-Agriculture Community of Practice (CoP). This update provides a brief summary of the events in week 1. That week saw participants juggling between different types of content webinars, dedicated pages, recorded content, YouTube videos and WhatsApp discussion group. This variety of content spiced up the learning approach as it was designed to allow individuals without a background in drones to appreciate the learning path and also offer experienced users a chance to observe the various application of drones in agriculture and rural development. Read the summary of the content here |
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Webinars This week we had three webinars, an opening webinar session with facilitators and webinar with Matthew Barre from SLANTRAGE on airborne agriculture analytics and last one with Mariacarmen Ruiz from FAO Panama on community monitoring of forests in indigenous territories in Panama. The webinar by Matthew Barre, overviewed SLANTRANGE's approach in analysing data collected by drones.Drone-based imaging and analytics are proving to be a powerful tool to provide new insights to agronomists and farmers in crop research, breeding, and production. Watch here.  |
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Recorded Talks Last Tuesday, a recorded talk was presented by Gerard Sylvester from FAO and his presentation introduced drones, provided some useful definitions, presented different types of drones and provided an overview of various equipment associated with drones. Listen to the talk. |
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Exercises In the beginning of the learning exercise, last monday, participants were given the exercise on experience capitalization. This exercise requested a short experience on the use of drones. The short exercise required participants to share their own experiences with the rest of the class. Go to Exercise |
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In order to cater for a wide number of people, the e-Agriculture team also created a WhatsApp group for this activity. The WhatsApp group had about 120 registered people with interesting discussion. |
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Week 2: Upcoming webinars In the second week also various interesting content will be presented, we highlight two webinars: More information here |