Contributor
Oliver, Margaret A. editor.
Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
Descriptionxvii, 283 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note: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 / Jose 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
