Explain the vulnerabilities of the technologies used in crop and livestock production.
Explanation should include vulnerabilities connected to
- technology used to decrease production costs and increase outputs
- technology used to improve input efficiency and collect output data to facilitate future production decisions
- technology used to maximize crop yield and reduce labor costs and time
- data collected at the animal level to recognize sick animals, increase feed efficiency, and save on labor, feed costs, and time
- automated milking systems
- electronic feeding
- health monitoring
- mechanisms for early detection of health incidents
- biosurveillance
- infrastructure.
Process/Skill Questions:
- What are some vulnerabilities associated with electronic health monitoring systems?
- How can technology improve input efficiency and output efficiency?
- How can technology maximize crop yields and reduce labor costs and time?
- What is biosurveillance, and why is it important to the safety of the U.S. population?
- How could the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with soil and plant material captured as images with sensors mounted on various platforms such as satellites, aircraft, and UAS, be infiltrated, used by a bad actor, and/or exploited?
- How are satellites, aircraft, or UAS used to deliver scouting services as part of integrated pest management (IPM)?
- How can sensors, including multispectral, hyperspectral, radar, Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), and thermal imaging, provide added value in crop scouting?