GPS workshops for farmers

By on 15 March, 2011
Image courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA.
 
Over one hundred Central Queensland farmers have received satellite imagery of their properties, showing the extent of the recent 2010-11 floods.
 
Regional development agency, Agforce, is to run a series of GPS and GIS technology workshops next week at Duaringa, Banana and Mount Larcom to help producers and farmers easily and accurately design, plan, measure and budget new infrastructure.
 
The latest Garmin and Oregon GPS units will be available to use at the GPS workshops, funded by the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country Reef Rescue initiative.
 
Producers with their own GPS units are encouraged to bring them along and troubleshoot any issues with staff.
 
Physical features on a property map can be downloaded into a GPS unit to providing accurate navigation during on-ground rebuilding.
 
Agforce says the technologies can also help with vegetation management, and assist with property management decisions.

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