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Precision
Agriculture - Advanced Concepts and Applications
Course: Agricultural Systems Technology (AST) 433X, section
XW
Geographic information systems and global positioning systems.
Sampling strategies in precision agriculture. Data mining
and visualization. Building pinput prescriptions and recommendations.
Systems for precision agriculture, equipment, software uses,
legal and social issues, and economics. Advanced concepts
and the future of precision agriculture.
Prerequisites: off-campus student, Math 140 (College Algebra),
and junior or senior classification
Computer requirements: Internet and e-mail access
Dates: January 10-May 6
Delivery method: online
Location: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/dept/courses/ent201
Credit: 3 undergraduate or nonmajor graduate credits
Tuition: undergraduate $588, graduate $915
Delivery fee: none
Computer
fee applies--see table
Off-campus program: Master
of Agriculture
Instructor: U. Sunday Tim, Associate Professor
Registration deadline: January 10
Recommended text: The Precision Farming Guide for Agriculturists.
Published by John Deere.
Online materials.
Applied
Agricultural Meteorology
Course: Agronomy (Agron) 541, section XC
Applied concepts in agricultural meteorology. Basic concepts
of weather and of crop/climate relationships influencing
production, protection, yield and associated production
risk factors. Self study sections are available to resident
and to distant education students all semesters. (Credit
for only one of 503 or 541 may be applied toward graduation
at ISU, not both.)
Prerequisite: Agron 206 (Introduction to Meteorology) or
upper-level biological science course
Computer requirements: CD-ROM drive; Internet and e-mail
access desirable
Dates:
January 10-May 6
Delivery method: CD-ROM
Credit: 2 graduate credits
Tuition: $610
Delivery fee: none
Computer
fee applies--see table
Off-campus program: Master
of Agriculture
Instructor: S. Elwynn Taylor, Professor
Registration deadline: January 3
Texts: Burnett. Golden Weather Guide. ISBN 0307240517.
Set of course notes and CD-ROM.
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