Increasing pressure for food security and sustainability as well as a need to halt
environmental degradation has focused attention on increasing the efficient use of farm …

Precision agriculture (PA) is a holistic, sustainable, innovative systems approach that assists
farmers in production management. Adopting PA could improve sustainable food security …

This paper deals with precision farming tools (PFTs), a way of farming which relies on
specialized equipment, software and information technologies services, whose importance …

Soil health encompasses the effects the uppermost part of the land have on human
wellbeing in a broad sense, because soil is where most food ultimately comes from, and …

Forward estimates of harvest load require information on fruit size as well as number. The
task of sizing fruit and vegetables has been automated in the packhouse, progressing from …

Yield maps provide a detailed account of crop production and potential revenue of a farm.
This level of details enables a range of possibilities from improving input management …

Soil physical and chemical properties play a central role in plant growth, influencing the
availability of air, nutrients, and water. The aim of this two-year study was to evaluate the …

Precision Agriculture is a leading international journal on advances in precision farming.
Established in 1999, it focuses on natural resource variability, engineering technology …

Three vigor zones, identified in a Barbera vineyard by remote sensing at full canopy, were
carefully ground-truthed to determine, over 2 years, the relative weight of soil factors in …

Notions of terroir and their conceptualization through agro-environmental sciences have
become popular in many parts of world. Originally developed for wine, terroir now …