Del i serien Earthscan Food and Agriculture

Precision Agriculture for Sustainability and Environmental Protection

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvMargaret Oliver,Thomas Bishop,Ben Marchant

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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 at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-11-05
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEarthscan Food and Agriculture
Antal sidor304
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415504409

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Margaret Oliver is a 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 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.

Part 1: Precision Agriculture and Food Security 1. An Overview of Precision Agriculture 2. The Role of Precision Agriculture in Food Production and Security 3. Improving Food Security Through Increasing the Precision of Agricultural Development Part 2: Techniques 4. Rational Management Decisions from Uncertain Spatial Data 5. Applications of Remote Sensing in Precision Agriculture for Sustainable Production 6. Proximal Sensing 7. Spatio-temporal Analysis to Improve Agricultural Management Part 3: Management 8. Site-specific Management and Delineating Management Zones 9. Precision Weed Management 10. Site-Specific Irrigation Water Management 11. The Economics of Precision Agriculture 12. Spatially Distributed Experimentation: Tools for the Optimization of Targeted Management Part 4: Case Studies CS1. Sampling and Mapping in Precision Agriculture CS2. Precision Agriculture in Sugarcane Production CS3. Precision Rice Farming for Small-Scale Paddy Fields in Asia CS4. Farmer Perceptions of Precision Agriculture for Fertilizer Management of Cotton Future Prospects