Changing the cost of farming: new tools for precision farming

Kim Fleming; Penelope Nagel

doi:10.1117/12.2327023

23 May 2018 Changing the cost of farming: new tools for precision farming

Kim Fleming, Penelope Nagel

Proceedings Volume 10661, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XL; 106610G (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2327023
Event: SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging, 2018, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

There are ongoing economic pressures in production agriculture to increase crop yields. However, high grain yield production comes at a cost of applying significant quantities of various agricultural inputs, i.e. nutrients, pesticides and irrigation. In traditional farming systems, producers attempt to apply these inputs at a uniform rate across a given field. However, due to inherent spatial variability in fields, not all areas may require the same levels of input. Although the spatial and temporal variability of yield limiting factors discussed above has been recognized for a long time (Rennie and Clayton, 1960; Malo and Worcester, 1975; Robert et al., 1990), farmers continued to manage their fields uniformly because they lacked the technology to manage for variability. With the introduction of new precision farming technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and variable rate application technology (VRT) farmers now have the ability to manage their fields site specifically.

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Kim Fleming and Penelope Nagel "Changing the cost of farming: new tools for precision farming", Proc. SPIE 10661, Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XL, 106610G (23 May 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2327023

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