| Description |
1 online resource (302 pages) |
| Series |
Earthscan Food and Agriculture |
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Earthscan food and agriculture.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; PART 1 Precision agriculture and food security; 1 An overview of precision agriculture; 2 The role of precision agriculture in food production and security; 3 Improving food security through increasing the precision of agricultural development; PART 2 Techniques; 4 Rational management decisions from uncertain spatial data; 5 Applications of remote sensing in precision agriculture for sustainable production; 6 Proximal soil sensing |
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7 Spatio-temporal analysis to improve agricultural managementPART 3 Management; 8 Site-specific management and delineating management zones; 9 Precision weed management; 10 Site-specific irrigation water management; 11 The economics of precision agriculture; 12 Spatially distributed experimentation: tools for the optimization of targeted management; PART 4 Case studies; Case study 1 Sampling and mapping in precision agriculture; Case study 2 Precision agriculture in sugarcane production; Case study 3 Precision rice farming for small-scale paddy fields in Asia |
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Case study 4 Farmer perceptions of precision agriculture for fertilizer management of cottonFuture prospects; Index of authors; Subject index |
| Summary |
Precision agriculture (PA) involves the application of technologies and agronomic principles to manage spatial and temporal variation associated with all aspects of agricultural production in order to improve crop performance and environmental quality. The focus of this book is to introduce a non-specialist audience to the the role of PA in food security, environmental protection, and sustainable use of natural resources, as well as its economic benefits. The technologies covered include yield monitors and remote sensing, and the key agronomic principles addressed are the optimal de |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Precision farming.
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Sustainable agriculture.
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sustainable agriculture (discipline)
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Precision farming
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Sustainable agriculture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bishop, Thomas
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Marchant, Ben
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| ISBN |
9781136468254 |
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1136468250 |
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