Overview
- Interdisciplinary approach that pervades all chapters
- The concept to deal with complicated topics simply
- 178 illustrations, half in colour
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“This well-designed, well-written book covers appropriate topics related to production crop farming anywhere in the world. … This book can be used in a beginning and/or intermediate precision farming course. It can also serve as a reference in a more comprehensive course or series of courses on precision crop farming. The material presented will enhance students’ knowledge of specific production practices. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners.” (M. K. Swan, Choice, Vol. 51 (8), April, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
The editor and main author – Hermann J. Heege – is Professor Emeritus of the University of Kiel and was formerly head of its Department of Agricultural Systems Engineering. He conceived and initiated the worldwide known concept of the “N Sensor”.
The chapter about weed control is from Roland Gerhards, Professor of the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim.
Contributions about the use of plant-fluorescence are from Eiko Thiessen, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Agricultural Systems Engineering of the University of Kiel.
Markus Demmel from the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture in Freising-Weihenstephan and its section head for System Engineering in Crop Farming is author of the chapter about yield sensing.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Precision in Crop Farming
Book Subtitle: Site Specific Concepts and Sensing Methods: Applications and Results
Editors: Hermann J. Heege
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6760-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6759-1Published: 15 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9445-0Published: 07 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6760-7Published: 03 July 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 356
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Sciences, Soil Science & Conservation, Plant Biochemistry, Engineering, general, Control and Systems Theory