Abstract
In an effort to streamline the processing of agricultural data, including details of crop growth and environmental conditions that were affecting crop production, we developed the FIX-pms data format. Our goal was to provide a standardized way to express data related to the management of agricultural production processes. FIX-pms is based on the EU's agroXML standard format, and is designed to express the primary data managed by PMS, a farm management information system using field maps in Japan. FIX-pms also incorporates GML to express geographic information from the field maps, BIX-pp to express environmental measurement data, and GPXX to express mobile measurement data.
