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Variable Rate Chemical Application
Pressure
Affecting droplet size
Control methods
DI of drift mitigation adjuvants -
Data Standards Supporting Drift Mitigation - Status & Opportunities.pptx
TPSA Drift Mitigating Adjuvants How They Work Pigati.pdf
Adaptive Sprayer Technology
An Adaptive Sprayer will continually monitor all information that is known about a prescribed application task including target, product to be applied, environmental conditions and sensitive adjacent areas. The sprayer will anticipate needs and will actively adjust functional parameters such as boom height, spray pressure, droplet size, machine travel speed and path to ensure optimum spray characteristic at the time of spray release. To fully realize benefits of an Adaptive Sprayer, industry and agencies must agree on risk mitigation, the capabilities of the controlled parameters, and the integrity of verification protocols. Consensus standards and organizational alignment will be central to accomplishing this work.
EPA DRT Initiative
- Basis in LERAP
- Status in US
Elements
- Machine
- Information
- Placement vs Drift
- DecisionAdjust
- Adapt the application parameters
Risk Assessment paradigm
- Static
- Dynamic
- Transition from OK-to-Spray (one time) to Adaptive (continual)
AEM/ASABE outreach to ISO
- Plenary 2015, Poland
Adaptive Sprayer
- Capability
- Verification
- Curves, Protocols
- Spectrum / Drift-able fines
Controls
- DDI: System Drift Reduction
Internationalization is an important aspect of this work; several conflicting requirements ... were reconciled creating a ContextItem class and drawing from AEF’s experience managing controlled vocabularies separately from the ISO 11783-10 data model.
Standards work
- ASABE
- ISO – WG 13 Spectrum / WG 21 - Classifications
- Drift-able fines
AEM/ASABE - outreach to ISO
- Plenary 2015, Poland
AEM – outreach to EPA
- Farm Progress
- Demo Day
Standards work
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