CC* Planning: Precision Agriculture and the Community

加利福尼亚州、亚利桑那州和内华达州的缺水将在未来几年影响该地区的作物产量和农业。通过进一步推进亚利桑那州尤马市科罗拉多河沿岸的农业创新，可持续增长的前景、更好的研究潜力和新的基础设施合作将使STEM项目、行业和社区受益。尤马是亚利桑那州的沙拉碗。继续建立专门的网络，并与该地区的高等教育和K-12机构合作，增加了规划和实施与农业科学相一致的宽带和网络的机会。利用技术来提高作物产量或精准农业，是在农村社区部署网络基础设施的必要步骤。太阳走廊网络与尤马的农业研究社区、社区大学服务和农业项目、尤马最大的小学和高中项目、亚利桑那大学的实验农场和区域学术组织以及沙漠农业研究组织合作，领导着改善网络、连接科学项目和试验家庭作业间隔服务的规划工作。尤马合作规划活动将改善基于社区的网络基础设施模型，为下一代农业基础设施提供信息，并通过解决商业和农业科学的复杂需求来沟通科学、工程和技术项目。尤马的合作引入了宽带和基础设施规划，以支持极端干旱时期的精确农业和水资源短缺的影响。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Water shortages in California, Arizona, and Nevada will impact crop yield and agriculture in the region for years to come. By further advancing farming innovations in Yuma, Arizona along the Colorado River, the prospects of sustainable growth, improved research potential, and new infrastructure collaborations benefit STEM programs, industry, and the community. Yuma is Arizona’s Salad Bowl. The continued introduction of specialized networking and collaborations with higher education and K-12 institutions in the area improves the opportunity to plan and implement broadband and networking aligned with the science of agriculture. The use of technology to improve crop yields, or precision agriculture, is a required step forward in the deployment of cyberinfrastructure in rural communities.The planning effort to improve networking, connect science-oriented programs, and experiment with homework gap services is led by Sun Corridor Network in collaboration with Yuma’s agricultural research community, community college service and agricultural programs, Yuma’s largest elementary and high school programs, the University of Arizona’s experimental farms and regional academic organization, and the desert agricultural research organization. The Yuma collaboration planning activities will improve community-based cyberinfrastructure models, inform the next generation of agricultural infrastructure, and bridge science, engineering, and technology programs by addressing the complex needs of the business and science of agriculture. The Yuma Collaboration introduces broadband and infrastructure planning in support of precision agriculture during a period of extreme drought and the impacts of water shortages.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.