Case Study of GPS Farm Mapping and GPS Mapping Service
Background - GPS Mapping service case study
Farmer in Cambridgeshire had recently bought a new
farm and he had very little history or information about this new
farm
land.
He wanted to gather as much detailed about the fields
and farm land as quickly 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 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 and/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 software requirements are still not standardised.
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Willington Crop Services is located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK. Working on farms with farmers in agriculture in Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, UK.
