
News
The CPA intends to create new knowledge and methodologies for the agricultural community. In order to spread the word, we disseminate our research activities and findings through popular and scientific media, presentations, seminars and field days. We present some selected highlights and activities in the following.
Project proposal funded
We are happy to share that our project proposal REQUEST (REnewal, QUality and yield ESTimation in grasslands) has been funded from the Norwegian Research Council NRC.
read moreJob offer at the CPA
Would like to work with us for an even better and more sustainable food production? Are you good at web-based programming (back-end) and databases?
We have an opening for a system developer on our team.
CPA took part of the Nowegian Crown Prince and Crown Princess’s visit to Sweden
In connection with the visit of the Norwegian Crown Prince and Crown Princess’s visit to Sweden, NIBIO CPA joined in as a part of the programmed related to agriculture technology.
read moreNew addition to the CPA team
It is our pleasure that Malin Lars Græsdahl is now hired as an engineer at NIBIO CPA and department for Agriculture Technology.
read moreMax won the first place in the drone filming competition (FPV category) at UAS Norway
Maximilian Pircher, who works with drones at the Center for Precision Agriculture, has won first prize in the FPV (First Person View) category in UAS Norway’s photo and film competition.
read moreCollaboration with Fagskolen Innlandet
In 22 October, the Center for Precision Agriculture were visited by a large group of 50 students in Plant Production and Operations Management and roughage-based livestock production at Fagskolen Innlandet.
read morePopular technology day in September
The Center for Precision Agriculture arranged a technology day at Apelsvoll on 21 September. As many as 200 visitors found their way to us that day to hear about precision farming and agricultural technology.
read moreTechnology day at NIBIO Center for Precision Agriculture
Welcome to technology day at NIBIO Center for Precision Agriculture 21 September 2021
read moreWorkshop on agriculture technology and automation held at NIBIO Apelsvoll
In cooperation with the industry cluster Sustainable Autonomous Mobility Systems (SAMS), the NIBIO CPA organized a workshop on agriculture, technology and automation.
read moreField day at Apelsvoll 2020
On the 12th and 13th of August, this year’s field day was successfully arranged at Apelsvoll. Nearly 200 attendees from different agricultural horizons visited during the two days in order to get the latest updates from the different research projects running at the station.
read moreOpening meeting for PRESIS project
Wednesday 15.01.20 we were delighted to hold the first Meeting of PRESIS! The project aim to get the research and knowledge about precision agriculture to the farmers, and it was a clear optimism about this challenge.
read moreA visit from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
In relation to their study on the Norwegian innovation, productivity and sustainability in Agriculture, the CPA had the pleasure to receive the visit of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
read moreA visit from Terres Inovia
The CPA received a visit from Terres Inovia, which is a French technical center for the oil and protein sector. The delegation combined four researchers working on some similar areas as our CPA.
read moreA new and exciting project for CPA
The Centre for Precision agriculture are pleased to announce a new and exciting project, PRESIS. Precision agriculture as a means in the goal to a more efficient and sustainable agriculture have become a well thought of method.
read moreThe Minister of Food and Agriculture Olaug Bollestad visits Apelsvoll
Between rain and spring work, the Centre for precision agriculture had the pleasure of receiving the minister of food- and agriculture Olaug Bollestad.
read moreNIBIO conference 2019
Two of our CPA members have participated at the 2019 edition of NIBIO conference, that took place the 12th and 13th February in Oslo.
read moreARVAKER has entered the field
It is with great excitement that the CPA unveiled the newest addition to the fleet. ARVAKER is an electrical tractor delivered from California to partake in the SolarFarm project as a part of our autonomous fleet.
read moreBig news for CPA
The Center for Precision Agricultural got a good start on the New Year with the innovation within sustainable Agriculture technologies. We are proud to announce that the Solectrac eUtility, the first electrical, conventional tractor available at the market has finally arrived at Apelsvoll.
read moreCPA participation at The 3rd NJF – Agromek- EurAgEng joint seminar
The CPA participated with two presentations at the 3rd NJF – Agromek- EurAgEng joint seminar held 27-28th November in Herning, Denmark.
read moreThe Minister of Food and Agriculture visit to NIBIO Apelsvoll
The Minister of Food and Agriculture Jon Georg Dale visited our Center for Precision Agriculture (CPA) at NIBIO Apelsvoll. Accompanying the minister were several local politicians and some central advisors.
read moreNIBIO conference 2018
Center for Precision Agriculture hosted a special session at the NIBIO conference 2018 about the latest advances in precision agriculture. Four speakers were informing the audience about the use of technology in food production.
read moreINTERREG project meeting at NIBIO Apelsvoll
The INTERREG project group met at NIBIO Apelsvoll. We contributed with a demonstration of our latest results as well as a demonstration of our sensor and robotic equipment.
read moreSolar panels and RTK-GNSS base station
351 m2 of solar panels are now installed on a barn roof at NIBIO Apelsvoll along with instruments for monitoring central parameters of energy production and consumption.
read moreUAV-g 2017
We presented our latest hybrid-UAV solution at the UAV-g 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics in Bonn, Germany.
read moreYara Hanninghof Research Center
The CPA was visited by Jörg Jaspers from Yara Hanninghof Research Center Germany. Beneath a demonstration of the CPA’s sensors and other equipment, he was shown around the research facilities and fields of the farm.
read moreECPA 2017
The CPA participated with an oral presentation on the preliminary results of the REMOTE SENSING project at the 11th European Conference on Precision Agriculture at John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh, UK.
read moreCPA field day 2017
The CPA presented its research and staff at the CPA fieldday 2017 at NIBIO Apelsvoll. Around 70 interested researchers, advisors and farmers were given a presentation of selected research topics within the CPA.
read moreHUGINogMUNIN – a hybrid UAV
We have finished the work on HUGINogMUNIN, our first hybrid UAV prototype – a combination of a fixed-wing aircraft and a rotary-wing multicopter. Its name derives from Hugin and Munin, two ravens who are sent out each day to fly all over the world to bring information to Odin.
read moreNew Robot tractor arrives at Apelsvoll
The CPA received the first Robotti. It is a prototype electric robotic tractor, evolved from a security study in the field of robotics at Agrointelli, DK.
read moreEARSeL SIG Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop
We participated with a presentation about the pitfalls and a best practice procedure for the work with the Rikola Hyperspectral Camera at the 10th EARSel SIG Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop at Zürich, Switzerland.
read more2nd NJF-EurAgEng-Agromek seminar 2016
The CPA held a presentation about hyperspectral remote sensing at the 2nd NJF-EurAgEng-Agromek seminar 2016, which was arranged in advance of the Agromek Fair at Herning, Denmark.
read more2nd annual Sinograin project meeting in Beijing
The Sinograin project organized the 2nd annual project meeting in Beijing, China, including the workshop on the advances in online tools for precision agriculture.
read moreMinister of Food and Agriculture Jon Georg Dale
The Minister of Food and Agriculture Jon Georg Dale payed us a visit to get an overview of the latest technologies in precision agriculture research and the potential that they bring into the agricultural practice in the nearest future.
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