A management Opportunity Index for Precision Agriculture.
A management Opportunity Index for Precision Agriculture.
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精准农业管理机会指数。
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2000
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M. Pringle
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A. McBratney;B. Whelan;J. Taylor;M. Pringle
Many farmers are employing emerging technologies to characterise the variation in their production systems. The most common of these technologies are real-time yield sensors. Farmers, however, are often left wondering how the subsequent yield maps can be used to justify a change to a Precision Agriculture management philosophy. The Opportunity Index is an attempt to provide a pragmatic solution to this problem. The Opportunity Index for Site-Specific Crop Management (SSCM) is conditional on three components: i) the magnitude of variation (CVa) present in a yield map, relative to a given threshold; ii) the spatial structure (S) of yield variation, relative to the minimum area within which variable-rate controllers can reliably operate; and, iii) the economic and environmental benefit (E) of SCCM relative to uniform management. Methods for assessing the magnitude and spatial structure of variation in yield maps are proposed. These methods are then incorporated into an Opportunity Index to predict the potential for SSCM. Results are encouraging however further research especially into the economic and environmental impact of SSCM is required before the Opportunity Index can be considered complete.