Prospects for use of aerospace monitoring for accelerated development of livestock grazing

Abstract

The development of an innovative system of livestock grazing based on the use of the digital aerospace technology and telemetry is a new modern direction of development of the livestock industry. It is designed to solve the numerous problems of restoring soil fertility and pastures for animals. To develop a methodology for distant assessment of pastureland fertility, technological capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and satellite service were used. It allows studying the dynamics of the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) of various pasture plots in the Stavropol Territory of the Russian Federation. The analysis of literary sources shows that the main problems associated with the complex automation of complex objects forecasting processes are not technical, but methodological in nature and are caused by the lack of a theoretical framework that should be used as the basis for creating the appropriate model-algorithmic support. Comparison of the results of the prognostic evaluation of the nutritional value of forage plants obtained from UAV images and space services with the actual nutritional values obtained from the study of the zoochemical composition of feed showed a high degree of correlation in the range of 0.65-0.75. It was recognized that application of the capabilities of UAVs to assess the ethological features of sheep of the Manych Merino breed is promising. It allows optimizing the acquisition of groups of animals consolidated in feeding activity.