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Publications Thursday: Needles in the crop mapping haystack

We've developed methods for improving the mapping accuracy of rare crops in Australia. (13 Feb 2020)

Publications Thursday: vertical farms bear fruit

Cathryn O’Sullivan and colleagues make 4 important points about how to expand urban farming beyond growing leafy vegetables (30 Jan 2020)

1622-WQ app launched: water quality monitoring in the Great Barrier Reef hinterland

In a world first, sugarcane farmers in far north Queensland have a new app that will help them manage fertiliser use and so reduce nitrogen runoff onto the Great Barrier Reef. (21 Jan 2020)

Publications Wednesday: social science & digital agriculture

Dr Emma Jakku, leader of Digiscape's Social Dimensions project, has joined with Laurens Klerkx of Wageningen University and Pierre Labarthe of INRA to edit a special issue of NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences exploring social and institutional responses to digital agriculture (21 Jan 2020)

Publications Wednesday: even better grain yield forecasts

A new publication shows that using semi-empirical crop stress indices can measurably improve the accuracy of the C-Crop grain yield forecasting model (15 Jan 2020)

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Digiscape’s carbon farming app launches

We launched an app to help farmers get involved in emissions reductions schemes. (23 Dec 2019)

Countdown to launch: a carbon farming app for Australian landholders

We've been talking with farmers about LOOC-C, our app that shows carbon farming options in the Emissions Reduction Fund. (9 December 2019)

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‘Moves’ and ‘snazz’: how to write a great scientific paper

Digiscape Postdocs and a Masters student went on a writing journey with Dr Robert Brown to learn about writing great scientific papers. (28 Oct 2019)

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Augmented reality and Digiscape apps: D61+Live, 2-3 October

We showed off Digiscape’s apps and our augmented reality system for boosting real-time on-farm decision making in Sydney this week at D61+Live. (3 Oct 2019)

Houses and river

Digital rural futures in a complex world: EU Society for Rural Sociology Congress 2019

Digital rural futures in a complex world: European Society for Rural Sociology Congress 2019. (29 July 2019)