A review: The role of geospatial technology in precision agriculture

• Author: Pritee Sharma,Bushra Praveen
• Published date: 01 February 2020
• Date: 01 February 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1968

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A review: The role of geospatial technology in precision

agriculture

Bushra Praveen |Pritee Sharma

School of Humanities and Social Sciences,

Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Simrol,

India

Correspondence

Bushra Praveen, School of Humanities and

Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology

Indore, Simrol, Indore 453552, India.

Email: bushraparvn@gmail.com

Precision agriculture is a for thcoming farming management a pproach that is mod-

ifying the style of people farm. As of now, the accountability is incre asing to

reduce dependency of harming che micals in agriculture. Various m ethods and

techniques have been using in agric ulture production to make it safer and dimi nish

their harm impacts on environm ent to make agriculture sustaina ble. Precision agri-

culture is important tool to brin g successful conclusion. This l iterature review

focuses on geospatial technology can be an ef fective method in precision

agriculture.

1|INTRODUCTION

Precision agriculture (PA) is an st rategy to farm management that

utilizes information technology to determine that the crops and

soil receive precisely what they require fo r optimum health and

productivity. The aim of PA is to assur ed profitability, sustainability,

environment. PA, satellite farming, or site concrete crop manage-

ment is a farming management concept predi cated on observing,

quantifying, and responding to interfi eld and intrafield variability in

crops (Herschel, Hill, Gerhards, Rothmu nd, & Braun, 2008).

PA is suistainable and modern technology t hat gives opportuni-

ties to optimize productivity and redu ce pressure on natural

resources. This technology is based upon integrating the best of

farmer's local field knowledge with devel opments in geographic

information systems (GISs), global pos itioning systems (GPSs),

remote sensing (RS), and the inform ation technology (Talebpour,

Türker, & Yegül, 2015).

The management of variability lies at the heart of PF. The technol-

ogy may be relatively new to India, but the concept of precision man-

agement is not. Indian farmers have long known that soil conditions,

fertility, moisture, and so forth vary widely across a single field and

that various parts within fields responded to different types of inputs

and cultural practices. PF technology that has very well come up in

developed countries may not be adopted as such in Indian farming

systems because of its varying socioeconomic condition from that of

developed countries. Its relevance and adaptability in Indian agricul-

ture is still a question (Sahoo et al., 2007).

2|LITERATURE REVIEW

Precision agriculture is an incorporated, its providing information of

agriculture production which is made to increase long term produc-

tion, location wise and total farm production, productivity and effi-

ciency, profitability while avoiding the unwanted impacts of excess

harming chemicals to the environment or productivity loss due to

lack input application. The conclusion is that better decision making

will give a wide range of benefits in economic, environmental and

social aspects that may or may not be known or measurable at pres-

ent (Auernhammer, 2001). Globally, research investment and tech-

nology development on Precision agriculture have increased

throughout the previous years (Schellberg, Hill, Gerhards, Rothmund,

& Braun, 2008).

The importance of PA has been broadly recognized as a key con-

tributor in crop production technology around the globe, but so far,

this technology is only becoming practicable on large farms. PA is

based on an innovative systems approach, and these new systems

approach depends on a combination of fundamental technologies

such as GIS, GPS, computer modeling, ground‐based/airborne/

satellite RS, variable rate technology, and advanced information pro-

cessing for timely in‐season and between‐season crop management

(Jensen, 1996).

Agriculture in low‐income countries have tended to support

greater energy inputs using large machinery and increased applications

of chemicals and fertilizers. So these practices have negative

societal and environmental implications for instance soil erosion and

Received: 9 April 2019 Accepted: 24 April 2019

DOI: 10.1002/pa.1968

J Public Affairs. 2020;20:e1968.

https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1968

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