GIS Applications in Agriculture (Gis Applications in Agriculture Series)

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. Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso -- David W. Franzen Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso -- David W. Franzen -- David E. Clay ... [et al.] Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso -- David W. Franzen -- David E. Clay ... [et al.] -- Jonathan Kleinjan ... [et al.] Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso -- David W. Franzen -- David E. Clay ... [et al.] -- Jonathan Kleinjan ... [et al.] -- Lori J. Wiles, R. Bobbitt, Philip Westra Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso -- David W. Franzen -- David E. Clay ... [et al.] -- Jonathan Kleinjan ... [et al.] -- Lori J. Wiles, R. Bobbitt, Philip Westra -- T. G. Mueller Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso -- David W. Franzen -- David E. Clay ... [et al.] -- Jonathan Kleinjan ... [et al.] -- Lori J. Wiles, R. Bobbitt, Philip Westra -- T. G. Mueller -- T. S. Murrell, Q. B. Rund, H. F. Reetz, Jr. Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso -- David W. Franzen -- David E. Clay ... [et al.] -- Jonathan Kleinjan ... [et al.] -- Lori J. Wiles, R. Bobbitt, Philip Westra -- T. G. Mueller -- T. S. Murrell, Q. B. Rund, H. F. Reetz, Jr. -- Florence Cassel S. Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso -- David W. Franzen -- David E. Clay ... [et al.] -- Jonathan Kleinjan ... [et al.] -- Lori J. Wiles, R. Bobbitt, Philip Westra -- T. G. Mueller -- T. S. Murrell, Q. B. Rund, H. F. Reetz, Jr. -- Florence Cassel S. -- Pedro Andrade-Sanchez, Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso-- David W. Franzen-- David E. Clay ... [et al.]-- Jonathan Kleinjan ... [et al.]-- Lori J. Wiles, R. Bobbitt, Philip Westra-- T. G. Mueller-- T. S. Murrell, Q. B. Rund, H. F. Reetz, Jr.-- Florence Cassel S.-- Pedro Andrade-Sanchez, Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya-- Viacheslav I. Adamchuk, Chenguang Wang Application Of Gis To Integrated Pest Management On U.s. Fish And Wildlife Service Land / Bruce Seelig, James Alfonso -- Nitrogen Management In Sugar Beet Using Remote Sensing And Gis / David W. Franzen -- Using Historical Management To Reduce Soil Sampling Errors / David E. Clay ... [et Al.] -- Developing Productivity Zones From Multiple Years Of Yield Monitor Data / Jonathan Kleinjan ... [et Al.] -- Site-specific Weed Management In Growers' Fields : Predictions From Hand-drawn Maps / Lori J. Wiles, R. Bobbitt, Philip Westra -- Map Quality Assessment For Site-specific Fertility Management / T. G. Mueller -- Gleaning More Information From Yield Data / T. S. Murrell, Q. B. Rund, H. F. Reetz, Jr. -- Soil Salinity Mapping Using Arcgis / Florence Cassel S. -- Using Gis And On-the-go Soil Strength Sensing Technology For Variable-depth Tillage Assessment / Pedro Andrade-sanchez, Shrinivasa K. Upadhyaya -- Collocating Multiple Self-generated Data Layers / Viacheslav I. Adamchuk, Chenguang Wang. Edited By Francis J. Pierce, David Clay. Disc Contains Datasets For Individual Chapters In The Text. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Examines ways that this powerful technology can help farmers/firms to produce a greater abundance of crops with more efficiency and at lower costs. Each chapter describes the nature of the problem, examines the purpose of the GIS application, describes methods used to develop the application, provides results, and offers a conclusion as well as other supportive information. When appropriate, it presents the underlying statistical approach for the GIS software that is used Gis Applications in Agriculture Series # Hardcover: 224 pages # Publisher: CRC; Har/Cdr edition (February 13,2007) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0849375266 # ISBN-13: 978-0849375262