BookLatief Ahmad, Syed Sheraz Mahdi.
Summary: This book focuses 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.
Contents:
General Introduction
Introduction to Precision Agriculture
Components of Precision Agriculture
Tool and Technologies in Precision Agriculture
Precision Soil Sampling
Variable Rate Technology and Variable Rate Application
Precision Tillage
Laser Land Leveler
Site-Specific Nutrient Management
Precision Water Management
Precision Pest Management
Recent Advances in Precision Agriculture
Yield Monitoring and Mapping
Feasibility of Precision Farming in India
Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Precision Farming
Crop Simulation Modelling.