Geostatistical Applications for Precision Agriculture

✍ Scribed by Margaret A. Oliver (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this book is to bring together a series of contributions from experts in the field to cover the major aspects of the application of geostatistics in precision agriculture. The focus will not be on theory, although there is a need for some theory to set the methods in their appropriate context. The subject areas identified and the authors selected have applied the methods in a precision agriculture framework. The papers will reflect the wide range of methods available and how they can be applied practically in the context of precision agriculture. This book is likely to have more impact as it becomes increasingly possible to obtain data cheaply and more farmers use onboard digital maps of soil and crops to manage their land. It might also stimulate more software development for geostatistics in PA.

✦ Table of Contents

Geostatistical Applications
for Precision Agriculture
Preface
Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1: An Overview of Geostatistics and Precision Agriculture
Chapter 2: Sampling in Precision Agriculture
Chapter 3: Sampling in Precision Agriculture, Optimal Designs from Uncertain Models
Chapter 4: The Spatial Analysis of Yield Data
Chapter 5: Space-Time Geostatistics for Precision Agriculture: A Case Study of NDVI Mapping for a Dutch Potato Field
Chapter 6: Delineating Site-Specific Management Units with Proximal Sensors
Chapter 7: Using Ancillary Data to Improve Prediction of Soil and Crop Attributes in Precision Agriculture
Chapter 8: Spatial Variation and Site-Specific Management Zones
Chapter 9: Weeds, Worms and Geostatistics
Chapter 10: The Analysis of Spatial Experiments
Chapter 11: Application of Geostatistical Simulation in Precision Agriculture
Chapter 12: Geostatistics and Precision Agriculture: A Way Forward
Appendix: Software
Index