GIS Applications in Agriculture / Edition 1

by Francis J. Pierce, David Clay

Overview

The increased efficiency and profitability that the proper application of technology can provide has made precision agriculture the hottest developing area within traditional agriculture. The first single-source volume to cover GIS applications in agronomy, GIS Applications in Agriculture examines ways that this powerful technology can help farmers produce a greater abundance of crops with more efficiency and at lower costs.

Each chapter describes the nature of a problem, examines the purpose and scope of a GIS application, presents the methods used to develop the application, and then goes on to provide results and offer a conclusion as well as supporting information. When appropriate, the chapters present the underlying statistical approach for the GIS software that is used. Applicable data sets and color maps produced by use of GIS are included for download at the CRC webiste.

Concentrating more on the approach and less on the specific software, the authors describe the methods used to develop an application and discuss limitations to the algorithms and the programming code used. They then summarize the application in terms of what it does, how it works, its limitations, and its potential uses. The book provides a toolkit for the acquisition, management, and analysis of spatial data throughout the agriculture value chain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849375262
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/13/2007
Series:	GIS Applications in Agriculture
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Francis J. Pierce, David Clay

Table of Contents

Application of GIS to Integrated Pesticide Management on US Fish and Wildlife Land. Enhancing Sugarbeet Quality Using Remote Sensing and GIS. Using Historical Management Areas to Reduce Soil Sampling Error. Developing Productivity Zones from Multiple Years of Yield Monitoring Data. Linking GIS and Decision Model to Evaluate Site-Specific Weed Management. Map Quality Assessment for Site-Specific Management. Using ArcGIS for Yield Data Analysis. Enhanced Farm Research Analyst. Soil Salinity Mapping Using ArcGIS. DM_Comp Data Management (Comparison).

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"… as there is a distinct lack of introductory GIS texts or websites specifically relating geospatial technologies to agriculture, this series helps fill that void."

– Roger Knouff, Arizona State University in Journal of Spatial Science, 2008

Editorial Reviews

"… as there is a distinct lack of introductory GIS texts or websites specifically relating geospatial technologies to agriculture, this series helps fill that void."

– Roger Knouff, Arizona State University in Journal of Spatial Science, 2008

From the Publisher