Abstract
The development of site-specific agriculture has increased the need for knowledge regarding factors such as soil/plant characteristics and topography that influence wild blueberry production. Surface soil properties are the first type of information most frequently used by blueberry producers in developing management plans. Topographic features are not yet routinely used to guide within-field management. The majority of blueberry fields in eastern Canada have gentle to severe topography. An automated slope measurement and mapping system (SMMS) consisting of low-cost accelerometers used as tilt sensors, DGPS, laptop and custom software was developed. The SMMS was mounted on an ATV for real-time slope measurement and mapping. Four commercial wild blueberry fields were surveyed in Central Nova Scotia to evaluate the performance of SMMS. The automatically sensed slopes (SS) were also compared with manually measured slopes (MS) at 20 randomly selected points in each field to examine the accuracy of SMMS.
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