Precision Agriculture: Technology and Economic Perspectives /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2017.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Colección: | Progress in Precision Agriculture,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.