Emerging technologies for real-time and integrated agriculture decisions

  • Authors:
  • Newell R. Kitchen

  • Affiliations:
  • USDA Agricultural Research Service, Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research Unit, 269 Agricultural Engineering Building, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The papers in this special issue arise from the premise that precision agriculture information increases in value when data collection, data processing, and management actions are integrated. It seems evident that precision agriculture adoption has been hindered, in part, due to the lack of products that bring together engineering and agronomics. Additionally, the idea has been forwarded in recent years suggesting that precision agricultural systems should be developed to achieve conservation and other environmental benefits. In the end, users of precision agriculture systems want to know that the best science and technology are employed, but that the information-gathering and decision-making process does not hinder their day-to-day operations of producing the crop. The papers in this special issue were presented at a symposium held at the annual meetings of the American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America, and Crop Science Society of America in 2005. They highlight examples of spatial information collection and processing to accomplish real- or near real-time management operations.