How
Precision Agriculture Can Save Time and Money
Precision farming,
smart agriculture, use of GPS and field sensors become more popular now a days,
farmers adopt these new technologies because they can save both time and money. Precision agriculture also sometimes called satellite or digital farming is basically the use of medium to
high resolution images (eg. Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2) and geographic
positioning system (GPS) to analyze and monitor the status and health of the
crops in the field.
This is done through the help of GIS and remote sensing software packages for analysis and product derivations such as yield and biomass potential, crop chlorophyll content, plant height and densities, soil moisture and spectral index such as NDVI or Normalized Difference Vegetation index, which is one of the most popular index when it comes to crop analysis and it has a wide range of application.
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have listed a few ways on how precision agriculture works.
Precision
Agriculture using Farm Machineries and GPS
The demand for is
increasing rapidly due to the continuously growing population in the world and
one of the challenge in agriculture is how to increase the agricultural
production and sustainability. In spite of the continually growing technologies
most of the agriculture sector experienced shortage due to inappropriate management
of limited resources.
One solution to these events is the use of farm machineries
employed with geographic positioning system thereby implementing precision agriculture.
This method enables a site specific management system by relaying on spatial
data this also enables farmers to manage large farm areas with limited
manpower. Famous examples of these are the automated planters, fertilizer
applicators and sprayers which avoid over application thereby decreasing the
negative impacts in the environment.
