An agricultural monitoring system: Field server data collection and analysis on paddy field

The paper presents an agricultural monitoring system developed for Thailand. Various species of plants have been directly observed from the agricultural fields which mainly consist of economic crops of Thailand such as rice, cassava, rubber, sugar cane, corn, etc. An equipment used to obtain the data is called field server, which has been installed at the observed field for a long period. The collected data is separated to two parts: daily images (acquired twice per day) and weather information (recorded every five minutes). The weather information is as follows: temperature, rain volume, light density, humidity, soil moisture, wind speed and direction. Since the beginning of 2014, twenty-four field servers have been deployed in every region of Thailand. The data from the field servers is uploaded to a central server. Users can access and obtain the data via a web browser. Given the images and weather information (temperature and soil moisture), the data recorded from paddy fields is preliminarily analyzed as a guideline for further development.

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