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Fitzgerald, Glenn |
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Submitted to: Agronomy Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only Publication Acceptance Date: 11/7/2000 Publication Date: N/A Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: With the advent of precision agriculture, technologies such as global positioning systems, variable rate farming equipment, multispectral remote sensing, and advanced computer software, which were once considered too expensive, too technical or not relevant to production agriculture, are being used to improve on- farm management. One of the latest technologies being applied to precision agriculture is hyperspectral remote sensing where dozens or hundreds of narrow spectral bands are imaged from agricultural fields providing vast amounts of spectral information about crops, soils, and water. Hyperspectral remote sensing has been used by a small number of specialists as a research tool in the study of natural systems and to a lesser degree in agricultural systems for at least twenty years. Its usefulness in precision agriculture will likely increase due to the convergence of less expensive hardware, powerful image processing software, and scientists trained in image processing and an agronomic discipline. The utility of this technology and its application to agriculture will be discussed. |
