Overview
- Focuses on advances in precision agriculture led by leading women researchers, scholars, and professionals
- Provides insight into women’s technical contributions in precision agriculture
- Takes a holistic approach to precision agriculture, addressing both land and livestock applications
Part of the book series: Women in Engineering and Science (WES)
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This book features influential scholarly research and technical contributions, professional trajectories, disciplinary shifts, personal insights, and a combination of these from a group of remarkable women scholars within precision agriculture. The authors provide a holistic and critical overview of the field of precision agriculture (both crop and livestock), highlighting breakthroughs and impactful research led by women investigators including relevant technologies, decision making strategies, practices, applications, economics, opportunities and challenges. They discuss the urgent need for reduced cost, increased productivity, more optimal use of resources, and reduced impact on our environment. The leading female researchers contributing to this book are creating new technological advances that are revolutionizing agriculture.
- Focuses on advances in precision agriculture led by leading women researchers, scholars, and professionals;
- Provides insight into women’s technical contributions in precision agriculture;
- Takes a holistic approach to precision agriculture, addressing both land and livestock applications.
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Keywords
- Women in Science and engineering
- STEM Careers for Women
- Precision farming
- Precision agriculture
- Smart farming
- Smart agriculture
- Automation in precision farming
- Smart machines in precision farming
- GPS farming
- Smart sensors in precision farming
- Sensor networks in precision farming
- Women leaders in agriculture
- Influential women in agriculture
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women in Precision Agriculture
Book Subtitle: Technological breakthroughs, Challenges and Aspirations for a Prosperous and Sustainable Future
Editors: Takoi Khemais Hamrita
Series Title: Women in Engineering and Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49244-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49243-4Published: 18 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49246-5Published: 18 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49244-1Published: 17 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2509-6427
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6435
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 216
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mechatronics, Agriculture, Robotics and Automation, Sustainable Development, Communications Engineering, Networks, Job Careers in Science and Engineering