precision agriculture
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farming management strategy
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- agriculture
- Follows
- arable farming
- Image
- Daedelus comparison, remote sensing in precision farming.jpg
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- Commons category
- Precision farming
- has characteristic
- agricultural productivity
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Encyclopedic overview
False-color images demonstrate remote sensing applications in precision farming. Yara N-Sensor ALS mounted on a tractor's canopy – a system that records light reflection of crops, calculates fertilisation recommendations and then varies the amount of fertilizer spread
Precision agriculture is a management strategy that gathers, processes and analyzes temporal, spatial and individual plant and animal data and combines it with other information to support management decisions according to estimated variability for improved resource use efficiency, productivity, quality, profitability and sustainability of agricultural production. It is used in both crop and livestock production.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “precision agriculture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.