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Sensing Technologies and Automation for Precision Agriculture

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Women in Precision Agriculture

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This chapter begins by introducing the concept of precision agriculture and the impact of new technologies on the development and deployment of precision agriculture technologies. It then extensively reviews the sensing technologies commonly used in precision agriculture applications for crop, root, and soil monitoring. The chapter also reviewed platforms developed to implement field sensing tasks, including ground-based static platforms, ground-based mobile platforms, and aerial-based platforms. Two case studies using precision agriculture sensing technologies are finally presented.

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  1. College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

    Man Zhang

  2. Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA

    Ning Wang

  3. Beijing Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China

    Liping Chen

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Zhang, M., Wang, N., Chen , L. (2021). Sensing Technologies and Automation for Precision Agriculture. In: Hamrita, T. (eds) Women in Precision Agriculture. Women in Engineering and Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49244-1_2

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