Top Research Papers on Precision Agriculture

This chapter proposes a platform for precision agriculture which allows collecting fundamental physical phenomena required for the precision agriculture, which will be carried out to calculate the water quantity needed for optimal irrigation.

Precision agriculture is a management system that aims to reduce inputs like seeds, water, and energy; protect the environment; and maximize profitability. Precision agriculture uses advanced technology like positioning technology, geographical information systems, satellite navigation, and remote sensing. There are different factors affect the adoption of precision agriculture like farm size, legal affairs, and social interaction. Under climate change and increases in world population, adoption of precision agriculture could assist farmers to face various challenges to achieve ideal productio...

The ability to manage fields not as a single unit but by dividing them into separate areas distinguishes precision farming from traditional agriculture. Technologies and techniques used to improve the crop farming is the main domain we are working under precision agriculture.Optical sensors that use the reflectivity of light placed on growing plants to monitor and record the data about soil and crops in real time are available. Electrochemical sensors,are those that monitor plant, soil, and external factors that have a direct impact on plant growth.. A prototype of an intelligent Agriculture R...

In the paper,the significance in the aspect of meanin g of precision agriculture and the progress of precision agriculture study both ab road and at home were introduced.Based on the analysis of the precision agricul ture,a strategy for development of precision agriculture in our country was put forward

The global population is increasing at a tremendous speed; thus, the demand for safe and secure food to meet this population is in demand. Therefore, traditional farming methods are insufficient to meet this demand; thus, the next revolution in agriculture is required, which is Precision Agriculture (PA), the Fourth Agriculture Revolution. PA is a technology where the concept of farm management is based on observation, measuring, and responding to inter- and intra-field variability in crops. The technologies used for performing precision agriculture are mapping, global positioning system (GPS)...

The meaning of precision agriculture and the progress of precision agriculture both abroad and at home were introduced. Based on the analysis of the precision agriculture,the strategy of the development of precision agriculture in our country was put forward.

The system presented employs a mobile camera system which simultaneously photographs two geocoded images in two different spectral bands and compares them to each other and the average identification rate with a knowledge base, consisting of five weed classes, was around 80 %.

With the aid of a mechanical sensor in the form of a physical pendulum, the grown plant mass in culmiferous plant cultures can be determined indirectly by means of measuring technology. Through the combination of the sensor with a centrifugal fertilizer spreader and a plant-protection sprayer, technical solutions working in real time were created which resulted in a reduction of 13.5% of the nitrogen fertilizer and 18.7% of the fungicides used under practical conditions.

precision mean ”the quality of being clear or exact”. Farmer tries hard to get the result but we need the smart way and result oriented. The history of India’s development has been inexorably linked to that of its farmers, and the nation’s growth with that of its agronomics. Agronomics provides highest contribution to nation income. Agronomics needed top most priority because the Government and the nation would both fail to succeed if agronomics could not be successful. Today we are living in 21st century where automation is playing significant role in human life. Automation allows us to contr...

Agricultural production system is an outcome of a complex interaction of seed, soil, water and agro-chemicals (including fertilizers). Therefore, judicious management of all the inputs is essential for the sustainability of such a complex system. The focus on enhancing the productivity during the Green Revolution coupled with total disregard of proper management of inputs and without considering the ecological impacts, has resulted into environmental degradation. The only alternative left to enhance productivity in a sustainable manner from the limited natural resources at the disposal, withou...

This paper presented the origin of precision agriculture and its technical system.The countermeasures and steps of developing precision agriculture are brought forward in the paper.

This work describes a real-time onion disease monitoring system using image acquisition that consists of a motorized driving system and a PTZ camera to take images of plants which, after image processing and analysis, can identify the disease areas of onion.

Natural resources, biotic variables, agro-inputs, and management all impact agricultural production. Uncontrolled use of resources and inputs frequently occurs by farmers, which results in environmental pollution, degradation of land, and financial loss to farmers. The term "precision farming" describes the integration of GIS and GPS tools to provide extensive detailed information on crop growth, crop health, crop yield, water absorption, nutrient levels, topography, and soil variability [1]. Precision agriculture makes use of technology such as sensors, GPS, GIS, Internet of Things, drones, e...

Precision agriculture makes use of RS to macro-control, of GPS to locate precisely ground position and of GIS to store ground information. It precisely establishes various operation, such as the best tillage, application of fertilizer, sowing, irrigation, spurting etc,turns traditional extensive production to intensive production according to space variable data. Precision agriculture not only may utilize fully resources, reduce investment, decrease pollution of the environment and get the most of social and economic efficiency, but also makes farm products, the same as industry, become contro...

Introduction To some, precision agriculture is about grid sampling, yield maps, unmanned aerial vehicles, sensors, and applying variable rate treatments, whereas to others, it is about the decision-making process. No matt er how you defi ne it, precision agriculture is changing agriculture, and providing opportunities to reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment. Today, the impacts of precision agriculture can be seen around the globe. For some, precision agriculture uses technologies borne of the information age to create site-specifi c recommendations that account for natural and m...

This book contains peer reviewed papers presented at the 9th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, held in Lleida, Spain, and reflects the wide range of disciplines that impinge on precision agriculture: technology, crop science, soil science, agronomy, information technology, decision support, remote sensing and others.

The necessity in implementing precision agriculture is expounded firstly, and the basic concept and connotation of precision agriculture, its technical system, implementation and the technical support system are introduced in details.

ECONOMICS OF PRECISION AGRICULTURE Module Outline: 1.0 Economics of Precision Agriculture Introduction 2.0 Economics is Utility is . Marginality is . Relative prices Multiple enterprises 3.0 Time Value of Money Costs of Production Opportunity costs A further word on costs Operating costs Ownership costs 5.0 Risk and Uncertainty Value of Information The Yield Gap 8.0 Partial Budgeting The partial budget format Partial bUdgeting: an example 9.0 -Previous Economic Studies of Precision Agriculture 10.0 Economic Analysis of Precision Agriculture Systems Case 1. Evaluating variable rate application ...

A land suitability evaluation criterion,with ranked parameters, for precision agriculture application in developing countries, is formulated. A pilot study was carried out for precision agriculture application for soybean cultivation in Khon Kaen province of Thailand. The parameters affecting crop productivity was divided into four classes based on physical factor considerations and were again compared with the economic return of the farmland to select the final suitable maps for precision agriculture application. Eighty six percent of total area is suitable for precision agriculture applicati...

This article thinks that the core of precision agriculture, technology is gaining the message of crop growth and its environment on real time, according a kind of decision model applying agricultural technique including fertilizing, ejecting pesticide, irrigation and so on.