Precision Agriculture: Evolution, Insights and Emerging Trends

Precision Agriculture: Evolution, Insights, and Emerging Trends is a comprehensive guide to precision agriculture, covering its evolution, insights, and emerging trends. It showcases recent research improvements, future trends, and innovative use of machine vision, artificial intelligence, UAVs, drones, IoT, and data analytics to promote sustainable agriculture. The book explains the origin of intra-plot variability, types of existing sensors, controllers, and site-specific management, and explores yield monitoring, weed, disease, and pest control, automated irrigation systems, variable rate application of inputs, and data processing methods. It also examines the economic profitability of precision farming approaches and its utility for sustainable agriculture.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 290 pages
Publication date: 23 May 2023
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Precision Agriculture: Evolution, Insights, and Emerging Trends is a comprehensive guide that delves into the foundational concepts of precision agriculture (PA) and explores its economic, commercial, and environmental implications. The book showcases recent research advancements, future trends, and innovative applications of machine vision, artificial intelligence, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones, the Internet of Things (IoT), and data analytics to promote sustainable agriculture. It provides the reader with an up-to-date understanding of precision agriculture and its implementation.

The book is organized into chapters, each covering a range of topics. From the basic elements of agronomy to insights on reflectance and remote sensing indices, the chapters utilize summary abstracts, case studies, and real-world examples to demonstrate the latest advances in precision agriculture. They explain the origin of intra-plot variability in crops, the different types of existing sensors, controllers, and site-specific management tools.

The book further explores yield monitoring, weed, disease, and pest control, automated irrigation systems, precision tools for variable rate application of inputs within the field, and data processing methods. It also delves into the economic profitability of precision farming approaches and their utility for sustainable agriculture.

Precision Agriculture: Evolution, Insights, and Emerging Trends offers a holistic view of this important approach to improving global agriculture production. It is valuable for scientists, researchers, policymakers, graduate and postgraduate students, and engineers in the related fields of agriculture, computer science, and engineering.

Weight: 580g
Dimension: 185 x 231 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780443189531