TY  - CONF
ID  - russ2009sgai
T1  - Visualization of Agriculture Data Using Self-Organizing Maps
A1  - Ruß, Georg
A1  - Kruse, Rudolf
A1  - Schneider, Martin
A1  - Wagner, Peter
ED  - Allen, Tony
ED  - Ellis, Richard
ED  - Petridis, Miltos
TI  - Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems
T3  - Proceedings of AI-2008
Y1  - 2009
VL  - 16
SP  - 47
EP  - 60
PB  - Springer
T2  - BCS SGAI
CY  - London
SN  - 978-1-84882-214-6
UR  - http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/book/978-1-84882-214-6
N2  - The importance of carrying out effective and sustainable agriculture is getting more and more obvious. In the past, additional fallow ground could be tilled to raise production. Nevertheless, even in industrialized countries agriculture can
still improve on its overall yield. Modern technology, such as GPS-based tractors and sensor-aided fertilization, enables farmers to optimize their use of resources, economically and ecologically. However, these modern technologies create heaps of data that are not as easy to grasp and to evaluate as they have once been. Therefore, techniques or methods are required which use those data to their full capacity -- clearly being a data mining task. This paper presents some experimental results on real agriculture data that aid in the first part of the data mining process: understanding
and visualizing the data. We present interesting conclusions concerning fertilization strategies which result from data mining.
ER  -