Coffee Science

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Development of a methodology to determine the best grid sampling in precision coffee growing
(Editora UFLA, 2018-07) Figueiredo, Vanessa Castro; Silva, Fabio Moreira da; Ferraz, Gabriel Araújo e Silva; Oliveira, Marcelo Silva de; Santos, Sthéfany Airane dos
Precision agriculture is based on a set of techniques that explore the spatial variability of properties related to a determined area. The aim of this study was to develop and test a methodology to evaluate the quality of grid sampling. The experiment was performed in three areas of 112, 50 and 26 ha, in coffee plantations (Coffea arabica ) with cultivar Catuai 144, in the Três Pontas Farm, located in Presidente Olegário, MG, Brazil, in 2014 and 2015. A total of 224, 100, and 52 georeferenced points (2.0 points/ha) were plotted in the areas regarding the soil chemical properties, respectively: phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium. For the application methodology the standardized accuracy index (SAI), the standardized precision index (SPI) and the standardized optimal grid indicator (SOGI) were developed and tested. From grid 1 (2 points/ha), another three sampling grids (1.0, 0.7 and 0.5 point/ha) were adopted. The indexes were important to analyze the grid quality, whereas the SOGI allowed selecting the grid that best represented the properties.