Top Research Papers on Precision Agriculture

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...

While the Internet of Things enables machine learning and artificial intelligence by collecting real-time data from operations, the real breakthrough will come from machine learning algorithms that can predict outcomes, maintain standards, and work on the farm.

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...

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...

Precision farming refers to the latest trends in agriculture that use technology to improve quality, quantity, and productivity, thereby ensuring profitability, sustainability, betterment, and preservation of the environment. The paper discusses the development and needs for precision agriculture in India with its existing problems and opportunities. The challenges in the future cannot be resolved with ancient methods. In order to make agriculture efficient and sustainable, investment in new technologies accompanied by research and development is required. Agronomics is the highest contributor...

Based on the definition of precision agriculture, some key techniques of precision agriculture and its study and application situations in the United States and Germary were presented. Several problems involving farmland shortage, water shortage, agricultural environment pollution etc. seriously affect the sustainable agricultural development in Tianjin. The development of precision agricultural is significant to increase the utilization of resources, improve rural eco-environment, as well as promote sound development of agricultural economy. Combined with the situation in Tianjin, four possib...

The precision agriculture, the most advanced form of agriculture, used even in the developed countries of the European Union and the Unites States, but not on large areas, has as its foundation the most modern methods of control of the quality status of the various environmental resources, as well as the application at an optimum moment in time of all technological components, determining a precise control over the possible parameters which could determine the degradation of the surrounding environment. Within a crop field, with the same crop planted at the same moment in time all over the fie...

Agricultural service providers affiliated with the Ontario Agri Business Association (OABA) were surveyed on the extent to which their businesses use precision agricultural technologies for crop inputs purchased by farmers in Ontario. Approximately half of the fertilizers and pesticides sold by these companies are custom applied on land managed by the buyer of the inputs and nearly half of the respondents custom apply crop inputs on over 50,0000 acres. An indication of the wide spread use of precision agriculture in some form for crop production is that only 4% of respondents report not using ...

Recently, a major new step has been accomplished. Cochrane (1993) indicates that " farming in America began to cross another watershed in the 1980s.... in which the steps in the production process will be fully integrated and the entire process strictly controlled". "The essence of this mature industrial age of agriculture is CONTROL control over the input of resources into established processes or into new and improved technological processes".

The article discusses the use of precision agriculture, in which information technology and data collection is used to analyze and customize the cultivation of land by the square foot, focusing on the possibility that it will cause an agricultural revolution. Topics include the effect of precision agriculture on yields and seed productivity; its ability to lower the environmental impact of farming why reducing waste and energy consumption; and the use of GPS (global positioning system) data to conduct yield monitoring.

Threats to Precision Agriculture addresses the security threats related to the adoption and impact of new digital technologies in crop and livestock production with a variety of embedded and connected technologies.

The main applications of precision agriculture have been in arable crops, orchards and vineyards. The application of precision agriculture in open field vegetables has gained very little attention, especially in the case of hand-picked fresh produce, while the revenue from these products is much higher and quality is very important. The objective of this study was to investigate the potential of applying precision agriculture techniques in watermelons, investigating the spatial and temporal variability in small fields, which are typical for watermelon producers. The research was carried out in...

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 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.

بآ دودحم عبانم فصرم رد یا هدمع مهس یزرواشک شخب بآ فصرم هنیهب تیریدم رد یراذگ تسایس نیاربانب ،دراد یحارط دوبهب رما نیا ققحت یارب .دشاب یم یرورـض یرـما ی هتفشریپ یاه هویش و هنارکتبم یاه یروانف زا هدافتسا و تیریدـم نیـب یگنهاـمه كی قیقد یرایبآ .تسا مزلا تیریدم لترنك و یزاس لدم ،تاعلاطا شیاـپ و تـئارق ،یرایبآ هتفشریپ ثرکادح یارب هک تسا نآ یا هناماس نینچ فده .دنک یم داجیا بآ دربراک نازیم موادم و راکدوخ روط هب یرایبآ ییاراک ندونم میظنت ،هایگ یبآ زاین یناکم ای ینامز طیاشر بسح ار هعرزم رد یرازفا تخس یاه یروانف نیرخآ هلاقم نیا رد .دیانم لیدعت و رد هچ و هعرزم سایقم رد هچ قیقد یرایبآ رد یرازفا مرن و رگسح...

This paper focuses on comparing and analyzing precision agriculture against traditional techniques and tools and various robotics tools used in agriculture for performing agricultural tasks.

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.

Indian agriculture, even after the Green Revolution, is not as productive as it could potentially be. It calls for a second Green Revolution – one of „precision agriculture‟, where cutting-edge technology is used to maximize production with minimum input costs and resources. In this paper we present a multi-purpose agricultural robot to implement precision irrigation, fertilizer addition and de-weeding, apart from continuous monitoring of crop and soil conditions. This will involve efficient utilization of water resources, intensive plant and soil monitoring, condition based use of fertilizers...

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.

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 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.

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)...

sensors, robotics and data analysis to automate and precisely target agricultural activities – for example by employing a fruit picking robot that checks every fruit for colour, size and blemishes before harvesting it. The group is engaged in multiple and diverse projects, all funded by industry and aimed at producing industrial solutions for immediate field deployment. The group has been active for 8 years, and in that time has delivered more than ten projects to industrial customers. The agricultural technology (agritech) industry’s desire to adopt high-tech solutions is driven by the confli...

This paper explores how precision agriculture services and related mobile apps have impacted the farmers in their farming activities.

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 number of projects related to different facets of precision agriculture are being carried out by an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers with the University of Missouri and the USDA Agricultural Research Service. This paper provides an overview of those projects.

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.

The deteriorating of global environments, decreasing of biological diversity, increasing of natural disasters, exhausting of biological resources and fast-growing of desertification has pushed us to consider how to provide the human-beings with the suitable environments. Nowadays, the precision agricultural and precision forestry has been emphasized to obtain the maximum output through the minimum input and the least impact on environments., so the agricultural and forestry engineering systems require multi-disciplinary design groups and the importance of biomechinfotronics is need of th...

World demand for food is anticipated to increase by 70 percent contrary to this, agriculture input equation is changing in the form of decline in the agriculture labour, shrinking agriculture productive land, raising temperature, shifting weather patterns and land degradation; challenging every stake holder in agriculture sector in meeting food requirement of future. Precision farming can bring in some solution with its integrated technology-communicationmanagement approach to several needful decisions in agriculture production cycle. Socio-economic environment is pushing hard this technology ...

Precision Agriculture is the application of the integrated information technology in the field of agriculture,and the revolution of agricultural technology in the knowledge economy times. Now it is still in its infancy. The article is due to give an introduction of the technology system and the features of the precision agriculture,analyze the chances and challenges this revolution has brought about,and then make out the task the higher agricultural engineering education shouldered,and put forward the measures and tactics to deal with the revolution.

Precision Agriculture has evolved from a concept some decades ago into an emerging technology today. The catalyst for the emergence of Precision agriculture has been satellite positioning and navigation. The combination of Global Positioning System (GPS) and mobile mapping provide the agriculturist with a new capability of gathering information for implementing decision-based Precision Agriculture. While adoption of precision farming in wide concept has been modest in Nigeria the potential for using precision agriculture to address environmental, food security and sustainability problems seems...

Precision agriculture was defined. Its technical system and general current situations of development were summerized. Some proposals for development of precision agriculture system with China′s characteristics were put forward.

This paper describes the content and experiences teaching an undergraduate elective course in Technologies for Precision Agriculture. The primary objective of this course is to prepare agricultural systems management students for successful careers in information-intensive agriculture. The subjects include the technologies of global positioning systems, yield monitors, geographic information systems, site-specific data acquisition, remote sensing, variable-rate application, and economics. Since the 2000 Fall semester, over 80 students have completed the 3-credit, junior-level course at Pu...

Abstract Drones commonly referred, as UAVs are mostly associated with military, industry and other specialized operations but with recent developments in area of sensors and Information Technology in last two decades the scope of drones has been widened to other areas like Agriculture. The drones manufactured these days are becoming smarter by integrating open source technology, smart sensors, better integration, more flight time, tracking down criminals, detecting forest and other disaster areas. The aim of this research paper is to highlight the importance of drones in agriculture and elabor...

Precision agriculture represents an innovative approach utilizing technologies and scientific methods to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of agricultural oper-ations and their application in modern agriculture. Various technological innovations are analyzed, including the use of sensors, GPS systems, remote sensing, and software solutions that aid in optimizing agricultural operations. The article discusses the chal-lenges of implementing precision agriculture, as well as future development opportuni-ties in the sector and the potential benefits for farmers, rural communities, and the...

The precision is modern agriculture. In this paper , The producding and develop prospect of precision agriculture are introduced ,The concept and technological system of precision agriculture are expounded. [

The purpose of this study is to show in what measure language dictionaries can be of help in better understanding GPS terminology. This study is part of a wider project of studying specialized languages belonging to different agronomic subjects. The type of approach is lexicographical. The study of GPS terminology is at its beginnings, as GPS technology itself has only recently emerged as scientific branch. The limits of the research are those caused by the absence of linguistic tools specific to the field of GPS. The practical implications of the study are dictated by the purpose of the study...

Precision guidance and precision sprayer control have substantial promise to reduce input application overlap, thus saving chemicals, fuel, and time during the application process. In this report we provide preliminary estimates of the magnitude of the private benefits for a precision guidance system combined with auto-boom control for agricultural sprayers (precision spraying). Hypothetical farm fields are analyzed, allowing comparison of the performance of the precision system to a traditional, non-precision system for different field shapes. An analysis of the impact of size of farm on syst...

The paper assesses the data collected by sensors and processed in order to produce maps for agrotechnical operations and explains the main sensor types according to their design, the recorded range of electromagnetic spectrum, as well as the way of detection, recording, measuring, and representation of the detected energy.

The aim of this paper consists in reducing the consumption of resources and reaching the maximum potential of the harvest, providing a smart greenhouse which automatically improves the quality of the culture.

The article would like to introduce the main steps of agricultural changes, followed by the appearance and main analysis of precision production, which can contribute to food security and safety, it supports sustainable farming.

An OSA Incubator Meeting explored the intersection of photonic technology and the effort to feed a growing world population.

This paper deals with the advancements in the agricultural field using the latest technology LoRa. Agriculture is the most crucial sector of the Indian economy, which plays a decisive role in the socio-economic development of the country. The Indian sector of agriculture accounts about 18% of India’s gross domestic production (GDP) and employs half of the countries workforce. There are many issues related to agriculture, which always hampers the course of our advancement. Encouraging farmers to use modern techniques is one of the best solutions to tackle these problems. As they help in increas...

Saabunud / Received 13.10.2020 ; Aktsepteeritud / Accepted 14.12.2020 ; Avaldatud veebis / Published online 31.12.2020 ; Vastutav autor / Corresponding author: Edvin Nugis edvin.nugis@mail.ee

To meet the rising food demand of a world population predicted to reach 9 [...]

Preliminary tests show that the IoT-based soil monitoring solution based on the LoRa/LoRaWAN and NB-IoT technologies is water resistant and can communicate up to 1.7km while buried 10cm underground.

Algorithms for detection of weeds, pest and disease affected leaves in a maize field are presented and can be used in systems to enable automated precision agriculture in maize fields.

: Current scenario of Indian Farming needs a technological revolution. Precision Agriculture being a technique of applying the right amount of input (water, fertilizer, pesticides etc.) at the right location and at the right time in an agricultural farm to increase the production and hence improve the quality of the crops, utilizes different wireless sensors connected to each other. Monitoring the environmental parameters and analyzing them for an improvement in Indian farming is the impetus of this research. The productivity of the varied range of crops grown in contrastive weather in differe...