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Precision, Geospatial and Sensor Technologies Programs is sponsored by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). NIFA supports the development of robust sensors and instrumentation and associated software for observing, modeling, and analyzing a wide range of complex biological materials or chemical compounds, life forms, and processes in agricultural, food, and forest production.
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Precision, Geospatial and Sensor Technologies Programs | NIFA The lifecycle of grants and cooperative agreements consists of four phases: Pre-Award, Award, Post-Award, and Close Out. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture is committed to serving its stakeholders, Congress, and the public by using new technologies to advance greater openness.
The Data Gateway enables users to find funding data, metrics, and information about research, education, and Extension projects that have received grant awards from NIFA. This website houses a large volume of supporting materials. In this section, you can search the wide range of documents, videos, and other resources.
Veterinary Services Grant Program Technical Assistance Webinar NIFA staff will hold a Technical Assistance Webinar to discuss the Veterinary Services Grant Program (VSGP) Notice of Funding Opportunity. The National Institute of Food and Agriculture provides leadership and funding for programs that advance agriculture-related sciences.
Precision, Geospatial and Sensor Technologies Programs Narrow profit margins, global competition, and attention to public goods have forced many producers, processors, and communities to carefully measure, monitor, micromanage resources to increase efficiency and overall benefit.
Through program leadership and grants, NIFA emphasizes the use of information and precision technologies to deliver decision tools that improve management capabilities for agricultural, food, forestry, and community enterprises. All precision agriculture activities have a number of things in common. First, data are collected with high, spatial and/or temporal resolution.
Second, data are analyzed and related to treatments or manipulations that are specific in location and/or timing. Third, prescribed treatments are implemented using systems capable of precise control, tracking, or handling.
Precision agricultural practices, such as site-specific applications of fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation, and herbicides in agricultural crops and improved timber and non-timber management and utilization in forests, can reduce costs while minimizing environmental and ecological impacts. Similarly, properly timed and detailed control of animal care and feeding can minimize expenses and maximize animal growth and vitality.
Detailed information about crop and site conditions was once inaccessible or prohibitively expensive to acquire. However, advances in electronics, communications, and software during the past several decades have removed impediments. Farmers and natural resource managers can now collect, analyze, and use vast amounts of detailed information.
These technologies, taken together, constitute the tools that enable precision agriculture. The past decade has witnessed an explosion in the availability and use of information technology. This is especially true in the three allied geospatial technologies--remote sensing, geographic information systems (GISs), and the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Technological advances often have occurred so quickly that many of the most obvious potential users, such as those involved in the use and management of agriculture and natural resources, and urban and regional planning, have been left behind. New sources of data from NASA (e.g., Landsat 7, Terra, MODIS, and Aqua) and high-resolution data from commercial sources are now available.
These new data sources, accompanied by new methods of data processing and analysis, provide the basis for new applications and increase the challenge of assuring that the broad, potential user community receives the benefits of available technology. Sensors are devices that measure various characteristics of an object of interest.
Sensors have so many industrial and consumer applications today that they have become necessary components of our daily lives: most home appliances contain several, and present-day automobiles will not work without them. Sensors make consumer products safer, more user-friendly, and more functional.
Sensor technologies can have similar beneficial impacts when applied to agricultural, food, and forest production, processing, and product use. In partnership with land-grand universities and other agencies, NIFA supports development of robust sensors and instrumentation and associated software for observing, modeling, and analyzing a wide range of complex biological materials or chemical compounds, life forms, and processes.
Cooperative extension system/eXtension geospatial technology community Multi-state committee on controlled environment technology use GSI/GPS Integration Teams - Environmental Systems Research Institute Adoption of Precision Agriculture Precision Agriculture in Crop Production Precision Agriculture in Animal Production Precision Agriculture in Forestry Decision Support Systems (DSS) Precision Forestry Cooperative (University of Washington - College of Forest Resources) Page last updated: July 3, 2025 Your feedback is important to us.
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Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Foundational and Applied Science Request for Applications (AI components) is sponsored by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). This program supports AI activities that advance the ability of computer systems to perform tasks traditionally requiring human intelligence within agriculture and the food supply chain. This includes machine learning, data visualization, natural language processing, intelligent decision support systems, and autonomous systems for agricultural and food production.
Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields Grant Program is sponsored by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). This competitive grants program supports research and extension projects designed to increase participation by rural women and minorities from rural areas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The program aims to develop a robust and diverse food and agricultural STEM workforce.
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science Program is sponsored by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). This program supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture, including plant and animal health, food safety, bioenergy, natural resources, agriculture systems, and economics.