Aspects of precision agriculture

FJ Pierce, P Nowak - Advances in agronomy, 1999 - Elsevier
Precision agriculture is the application of technologies and principles to manage spatial and
temporal variability associated with all aspects of agricultural production for the purpose of
improving crop performance and environmental quality. Success in precision agriculture is
related to how well it can be applied to assess, manage, and evaluate the space-time
continuum in crop production. This theme is used here to assess the current and potential
capabilities of precision agriculture. Precision agriculture is technology enabled. It is through …