Precision Agriculture: Technology and Economic Perspectives - Pedersen, Søren Marcus; Lind, Kim Martin; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017)
Chapter 1 Precision Agriculture - from Mapping to Site-specific Application -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2 Current PF technologies -- 1.3 Variable rate application -- 1.4 Adoption of precision farming systems -- 1.5 The aim and organisation of this book -- 1.6 Summary and main findings -- Chapter 2 Smart Farming Technologies - Description, Taxonomy, Economic Impact -- 2.1. Precision Agriculture as a cyclic optimisation process -- 2.2. Smart Farming Technologies Types -- 2.3. Smart Farming Technologies Taxonomy -- 2.4. Smart Farming Technologies economic impact -- Chapter 3 Economic potential of site-specific fertiliser application and harvest management -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Framework for economic assessment -- 3.3. Analysis of studies -- 3.3.1 Site-specific nitrogen fertilization -- 3.4 Site-specific management with respect to crop quality -- 3.4.1 Site-specific nitrogen management with respect to protein concentration -- 3.4.2 Site-specific harvest management (Grain segregation by protein concentration) -- 3.5. Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Economics of site specific and variable rate herbicide application -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Application technologies -- 4.3 Planning and low dose DSS -- 4.4 Weed Detection -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Economics and Perspectives of Site Specific Irrigation Management in Australia -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Irrigation and cotton growing in Australia -- 5.3. Cotton Nutrition and Managing Nitrous Oxide Emissions -- 5.4. Method of analysis -- 5.5. Results -- 5.6. Discussion -- 5.7. Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Auto-steering and Controlled Traffic Farming - Route planning and economics -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Route planning design -- 6.3  Results -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Profitability of controlled traffic in grass silage production -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Machinery system design -- 7.3. Problem definition -- 7.4. A model for economic evaluation of CTF -- 7.5. Results -- 7.6. Discussion -- 7.7. Conclusions -- Chapter 8 Robotic seeding - economic perspectives -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Economic performance -- 8.3 Robotic system for crop seeding -- 8.4 Economic assessment of early seeding and re-seeding with robots in sugar beet -- 8.5 Early seeding -- 8.6 Re-seeding -- 8.7 Creating re-seeding maps with UAVs -- 8.8 Results -- 8.9 Sensitivity analysis -- 8.10 Conclusions -- Chapter 9 Future perspectives of Farm Management Information Systems -- 9.1 Introduction to Farm Management Information Systems -- 9.2 Farm management information systems functionalities and applications -- 9.3 Costing functionalities of FMIS -- 9.4 Adoption of FMIS -- 9.5 Discussion and conclusions -- Chapter 10 Sustainable intensification in crop farming - a case from Estonia -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Material and method -- 10.3 Results -- 10.4 Discussion -- 10.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 11 How to model the Adoption and Perception of Precision Agriculture Technologies -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Theoretical Models -- 11.3. Behavioural models and their application in Agricultural Sciences -- 11. 4. Discussions and conclusion -- Chapter 12 Perspectives of Precision Agriculture in a Broader Policy Context -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 PA and wider societal trends -- 12.3 Policy trends in Europe -- 12.4 Stakeholder involvement -- 12.5 Opportunities for small and medium size companies -- 12.6 Concluding remarks -- Abbreviations and glossary -- List of Authors -- Index.
Keywords: Agriculture; Agricultural economics; Plant science; Botany; Soil science; Soil conservation; Agriculture; Agricultural Economics; Plant Sciences; Soil Science & Conservation