Satellite Farming: An Information and Technology Based Agriculture

Description

This bookfocuses on the recent advances in precision agriculture and satellite farming, detailing applications for sensing, data handling, modeling, and control. In addition, the book reviews its history - establishing the background on the various processes and applications – describes the current status, and offers insight into the future technology of satellite farming in India. Introducing processes and applications based on a global scale, the book reveals how precision agriculture can be used in large-scale agriculture, community agriculture, and diversified farming. It includes site-specific information from a variety of information sources for planning, planting, growing, and harvesting agricultural crops. It also presents a new concept based on the control system theory that can be used to formulate systematic methods for more effective precision crop production. Precision agriculture when properly integrated into the crop production process, can greatly improve overall production and sustainability. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction to Precision Agriculture (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 1-18 Components of Precision Agriculture (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 19-30 Tool and Technologies in Precision Agriculture (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 31-45 Precision Soil Sampling and Tillage (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 47-66 Variable Rate Technology and Variable Rate Application (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 67-80 Laser Land Leveler (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 81-96 Site-Specific Nutrient Management (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 97-109 Precision Water Management (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 111-118 Precision Pest Management (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 119-127 Recent Advances in Precision Agriculture (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 129-138 Yield Monitoring and Mapping (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 139-147 Feasibility and Evaluation of Precision Farming (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 149-166 Decision Support System for Precision Farming (Latief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi)....Pages 167-180 Back Matter ....Pages 181-190