Case Study of GPS Farm Mapping & GPS Mapping Service
Who
was the GPS Mapping service for?
A farmer in Cambridgeshire had recently bought a new
farm with very little information about this new farm
land.
He wanted to gather as much detailed about the fields
and farm land as possible, including areas of tracks,
woods, ponds, concrete pads etc., and used the
Willington Crop Services
GPS Mapping Service to GPS Farm Mapping the new
land.
GPS Farm Mapping of fields and GPS Mapping location of specific features such as trees, pylons, water hydrant locations etc..
First the field boundary's were GPS data mapped. An ATV with GPS was used to drive around the perimeter of the fields to create polygon for field shape and field area. GPS location is only as good as the driver, being able to drive close to the boundaries and also good recording of any deviations that can not be driven.
All the enclosed areas were then also mapped creating GIS data. Such as trees, concrete pads, ditches, ownership boundaries, field divisions, reservoirs, pylons, field strips etc.. Thus a detailed map of farm was created.
Together, these gave the total field areas or part field areas. Vital information to ensure areas are as bought and for planning cropping, rental agreements etc..
The GPS maps were returned within 14 days by email &/or on paper as preferred. And in digital format to suit most mapping software. Because the person mapping the fields is also the person interpreting the data, misinterpretation errors are unlikely and finished maps very accurate.
The farmer wanted fields shown on a single map, that is as a whole farm and also as individual fields for import into his mapping software. Data can be returned to suit most mapping software, although, unfortunately, software requirements are still not standardised.
