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We were warned that this weekend\u2019s solar storm could have an impact on GPS and navigation systems. 404 Media<\/em> reports<\/a> that it\u2019s causing outages in the GPS and real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning systems<\/a> used in many farmers\u2019 tractors, right in the middle of planting. This is a bigger problem than you might think: quite a lot of crops are grown using precision agriculture<\/a>, \u201cwith farmers using increasingly automated tractors to plant crops in perfectly straight lines with uniform spacing. […] If the planting or harvesting is even slightly off, the tractors or harvesters could damage crops or plant crooked or inconsistently, which can cause problems during the growing season and ultimately reduce yield.\u201d To say nothing of the harvest. Precision agriculture achieves centimetre-level accuracy, but also relies on it, and losing it at one step of the process can’t be good. [Engadget<\/a><\/em>, The Verge<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were warned that this weekend\u2019s solar storm could have an impact on GPS and navigation systems. 404 Media reports that it\u2019s causing outages in the GPS and real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning systems used in… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1312,254],"tags":[1617,1672,1675,1674,1673],"class_list":["post-1831019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-agriculture","category-gps","tag-aurora","tag-geomagnetic-storm","tag-precision-agriculture","tag-rtk","tag-solar-storm","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1830996,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/g5-scale-geomagnetic-storm-in-progress\/","url_meta":{"origin":1831019,"position":0},"title":"G5-Scale Geomagnetic Storm in Progress","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 May 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"NOAA The Earth is being hit by a solar storm at the moment; NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has observed severe (G5) geomagnetic storm conditions for the first time since 2003. 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