Precision agriculture for sustainability and environmental protection / edited by Margaret A. Oliver, Thomas F.A. Bishop, and Ben P. Marchant.
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TextSeries: Earthscan food and agriculturePublication details: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.Description: xvii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: - 0415504406
- 9780415504409
- 631.5 OLI
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 delivery of fertilizers, water and pesticides to crops only when and where these are required. As a result, it is shown that both food production and resource efficiency can be maximized, without waste or damage to the environment, such as can occur from excessive fertilizer or pesticide applications. The authors of necessity describe some technicalities about PA, but the overall aim is to introduce readers who are unfamiliar with PA to this very broad subject and to demonstrate the potential impact of PA on the environment and economy.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415504409_oaChapter_3.pdf
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An overview of precision agriculture / Margaret A. Oliver -- The role of precision agriculture in food production and security / Jerry L. Hatfield and Newell R. Kitchen -- Improving food security through increasing the precision of agricultural development / Anja Gassner, Ric Coe and Fergus Sinclair -- Rational management decisions from uncertain spatial data / Ben P. Marchant, A. Gordon Dailey and Richard Webster -- Applications of remote sensing in precision agriculture for sustainable production / Paul G. Carter and Stephen L. Young -- Proximal soil sensing / Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel and Viacheslav I. Adamchuk -- Spatio-temporal analysis to improve agricultural management / Ana Horta and Thomas F.A. Bishop -- Site-specific management and delineating management zones / Dennis L. Corwin -- Preciscion weed management / Roland Gerhards -- Site-specific irrigation water management / Robert G. Evans and E. John Sadler -- The economics of precision agriculture / Ben P. Marchant, Margaret A. Oliver, Thomas F.A. Bishop and Brett M. Whelan -- Spatially distributed experimentation: tools for the optimization of targeted management / Roger G.V. Bramley, Roger A. Lawes and Simon E. Cook -- Case study 1: Sampling and mapping in precision agriculture / Margaret A. Oliver -- Case study 2: Precision agriculture in sugarcane production / José P. Molin, Gustavo Portz and Lucas Rios Do Amaral -- Case study 3: Precision rice farming for small-scale paddy fields in Asia / Byun-Woo Lee and Kyu-Jong Lee -- Case study 4: Farmer perceptions of precision agriculture for fertilizer management of cotton / Roland K. Roberts, James A. Larson, Burton C. English and J. Colby Torbett -- Future prospects / Margaret A. Oliver, Thomas F.A. Bishop and Ben P. Marchant.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. vii)
- List of tables (p. xi)
- List of contributors (p. xiii)
- Preface (p. xv)
- Part 1 Precision agriculture and food security (p. 1)
- 1 An overview of precision agriculture (p. 3)
- 2 The role of precision agriculture in food production and security (p. 20)
- 3 Improving food security through increasing the precision of agricultural development (p. 34)
- Part 2 Techniques (p. 59)
- 4 Rational management decisions from uncertain spatial data (p. 61)
- 5 Applications of remote sensing in precision agriculture for sustainable production (p. 82)
- 6 Proximal soil sensing (p. 99)
- 7 Spatio-temporal analysis to improve agricultural management (p. 119)
- Part 3 Management (p. 133)
- 8 Site-specific management and delineating management zones (p. 135)
- 9 Precision weed management (p. 158)
- 10 Site-specific irrigation water management (p. 172)
- 11 The economics of precision agriculture (p. 191)
- 12 Spatially distributed experimentation: tools for the optimization of targeted management (p. 205)
- Part 4 Case studies (p. 219)
- Case study 1 Sampling and mapping in precision agriculture (p. 221)
- Case study 2 Precision agriculture in sugarcane production (p. 233)
- Case study 3 Precision rice farming for small-scale paddy fields in Asia (p. 243)
- Case study 4 Farmer perceptions of precision agriculture for fertilizer management of cotton (p. 252)
- Future prospects (p. 265)
- Index of authors (p. 269)
- Subject index (p. 273)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Margaret Oliver is Visiting Professor in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Reading, UK, and was for several years editor of the Journal of Precision Agriculture.Thomas Bishop is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Ben Marchant is an Environmental Scientist at the British Geological Survey and was previously at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK.