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Using Big Data to build decision support tools in

Agriculture  

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K a r e n L a n g o n a O S D C P I R E 2 0 1 3 E d i n b u r g h Wo r k s h o p  

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Cl imate and Agricultural Planning

•  Agriculture is the backbone of many country's economic systems

•  Agricultural planning tries to mitigate the impacts of climate variability and extreme events

•  Strategic (long-term) and Tactical (< 10 days) planning

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Ubiquitous Technology & Data Avai labi l i ty

•  Increasing use of desktops, servers, mobile devices, and sensor networks

•  Availability of climate related data •  The need for more efficient agricultural

practices and planning •  Cloud computing models and Big Data

frameworks

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Scenario

Cloud Infrastructure

Average Temperature/

Humidity

A Web Portal offers Data Processing Solutions

Data storage Data processing (Hadoop, Storm,

SQLStream)

Data is collected from Sensor Network in

Agricultural production

Temperature Dew Point Temperature

Relative Humidity Wind Direction

Wind Chill

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Web Portal – Sign Up/Log in

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Web Portal – Job submission

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Web Portal – Job results

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Delivering results and more

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Performance Analysis

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Sources and Acknowledgement:

Data set downloaded from: National Climate Data and Information Archive - http://climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca

Cartoon: http://www.agent-x.com.au/comic/cloud-storage/

This work has been funded by the Research and Development Center, Ericsson Telecomunicações S.A., Brazil

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University of São Paulo – Numbers*

•  Advanced center for research, education and community services

•  Campi: city of São Paulo(4), Bauru, Piracicaba, Pirassununga, Lorena, Ribeirão Preto e São Carlos

•  92,064 students: undergraduate, graduate and specialization •  5,860 professors •  249 undergraduate programs •  239 graduate programs

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Bauru

Piracicaba

São Carlos

Ribeirão Preto

Pirassununga

São Paulo

Lorena

Medicine Institute São Paulo

Paulista Museum São Paulo

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University of São Paulo – Rankings**

•  2013 Webometric Ranking of World1: 19th •  2012 Times Higher Education (THE) – World Universities

Ranking2: 158th •  2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities3: 101-150 •  2013 QS Latin American University Rankings4: 1st

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Sources:

* Source: USP in Numbers, 2012 - http://www5.usp.br/usp-em-numeros/ ** Sources: USP Rankings: (1) http://www.webometrics.info/en/world (2) http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking/institution/university-of-sao-paulo (3) http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html (4) http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/latin-american-university-rankings/2013