1st Edition

Precision Agriculture Technology for Crop Farming

Edited By Qin Zhang Copyright 2016
382 Pages 16 Color & 157 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

382 Pages 16 Color & 157 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Explores the Sustainable Development of Agriculture in Technology Precision agriculture technology, when properly integrated into the crop production process, can greatly improve overall production and sustainability. Precision Agriculture Technology for Crop Farming focuses on the technology of site-specific crop management; detailing applications for sensing, data handling, modeling,... Read more

A History of Precision Agriculture
David Franzen and David Mulla
Sensing Technology for Precision Crop Farming
Marvin L. Stone and William R. Raun
Data Processing and Utilization in Precision Agriculture
Chunjiang Zhao, Liping Chen, Guijun Yang, and Xiaoyu Song
Control of Precision Agriculture Production
Qin Zhang
Intelligent Agricultural Machinery and Field Robots
Shufeng Han, Brian L. Steward, and Lie Tang
Precision Agriculture in Large-Scale Mechanized Farming
Chenghai Yang, Ruixiu Sui, and Won Suk Lee
A Systems Approach to Community-Based Precision Agriculture
Sakae Shibusawa
Precision Agriculture in China: Sensing Technology and Application
Hong Sun and Minzan Li
Good Agricultural Practices, Quality, Traceability, and Precision Agriculture
Josse De Baerdemaeker and Wouter Saeys
State of the Art and Future Requirements
Hermann Auernhammer and Markus Demmel

Biography

Dr. Qin Zhang is the director of the Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems and a professor of agricultural automation in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University (WSU). Before joining the faculty at WSU, he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has authored two textbooks and six separate book chapters, edited two technical books and two conference proceedings, published 125 journal articles, presented more than 200 papers at professional conferences, and been awarded 10 U.S. patents. He is currently the editor in chief of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.