Precision agriculture in the 21st century : geospatial and information technologies in crop management / Committee on Assessing Crop Yield--Site-Specific Farming, Information Systems, and Research Opportunities, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Assessing Crop Yield: Site-Specific Farming, Information Systems, and Research Opportunities.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Precision farming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

21st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : National Academy Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sensors, satellite photography, and multispectral imaging are associated with futuristic space and communications science. Increasingly, however, they are considered part of the future of agriculture. The use of advanced technologies for crop production is known as precision agriculture, and its rapid emergence means the potential for revolutionary change throughout the agricultural sector. Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century provides an overview of the specific technologies and practices under the umbrella of precision agriculture, exploring the full implications of their adoption by farmers and agricultural managers. The volume discusses how precision agriculture could dramatically affect decisionmaking in irrigation, crop selection, pest management, environmental issues, and pricing and market conditions. It also examines the geographical dimensions--farm, regional, national--of precision agriculture and looks at how quickly and how widely the agricultural community can be expected to adopt the new information technologies. Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century highlights both the uncertainties and the exciting possibilities of this emerging approach to farming. This book will be important to anyone concerned about the future of agriculture: policymakers, regulators, scientists, farmers, educators, students, and suppliers to the agricultural industry.

Contents:

""FrontMatter ""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Dimensions of Precision Agriculture""; ""2 A New Way to Practice Agriculture""; ""3 Adoption of Precision Agriculture""; ""4 Public Policy and Precision Agriculture""; ""References""; ""Glossary""; ""Authors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-309-28644-1

0-585-02278-X

OCLC:

929505042