Paper On Precision Agriculture

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, have transitioned from primarily military applications to use in the private sector; being used to film movies, delivering packages for Amazon, and even personal entertainment. Because of the advancement in drone

In Vijay Kumar’s point of view, technologies are very beneficial and helpful. Vijay Kumar says, “one thing we're interested in doing is detecting the early onset of chlorosis -- and this is an orange tree -- which is essentially seen by yellowing of leaves. But robots flying overhead can easily spot this autonomously and then report to the farmer that he or she has a problem in this section of the orchard” (Kumar, 2015). Systems like this can really help to control farmers’ fields. It means that technologies make peoples’ lives easier and help them to save their

As an agriculture surveyor who is trying to utilize drones to increase the efficiency of the surveying the land for my customers, I would have a lot to consider before starting usage of drones. Currently, the FFA has been given the power to create federal regulations around the operation of drones, but the regulations have not been clearly defined yet which would legal environment of operating drones ambiguous. Some states and local municipalities have even also created their own statutes in order to keep up with the technology. Due to the fragmented rules governing different areas and a lack of clear regulation from the federal government, operating a drone could open my business up to substantial unforeseen liabilities. I would need

Because of the Vietnam War, drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are still used in the modern society. Drones have become more advanced and methodological to provide updated images of particular locations or fly greater distances than an airplane. As P.W. Singer confirmed drones are the most revolutionary change in weapons technology in the history of man and are considered to be equivalent to the invention of the computer according to Bill Gates. Both of these given statements are ascertained through their use not only in war, but also surveillance, agriculture, and the building of the database by scientists for climate change.

Noxious weeds can be very harmful to all aspect of rangeland. They can outcompete native grasses and forbs causing a loss of forage to livestock and wildlife. A large number of noxious weeds have been purposely introduced to the United States for purposes such as food, forage, fiber and decorative ground cover. Programs have been created to help with the invasion of weeds. It’s taken lots of time and resources to get programs started up to be able to combat the effect of noxious weeds.

Today, in the United States, farmers and ranchers produce a wide variety of commodities for food, fuel, and fiber in response to markets. These farmers understand and recognize the significance of managing their soil as well as their plant productivity. America’s farmers are true professionals because crop production is a very complex business.

As an agriculture surveyor who is trying to utilize drones to increase the efficiency of the surveying the land for my customers, I would have a lot to consider before starting usage of the drones. Currently, the FFA has been given the power to create federal regulations around the operation of drones, but they have not been clearly defined yet which would make operating drones. Some states and local municipalities have even also created their own statutes in order to keep up with the technology. Due to the fragmented rules governing different areas and a lack of clear regulation from the federal government, operating a drone could open my business up to substantial unforeseen liabilities. I would need to make sure to I have done enough

In agriculture, noxious weeds pose a threat to a successful yield in crops and a healthy livestock crop each year. While some weeds are not as extreme as others, all pose a threat of some sort. Take Knapweed for example. Varieties of Knapweed tend to inhibit crops and their

By improving the current systems we can then work on integrating new technology to improve the Ag experience. With already well developed machines, for instance I.F.A.R.M.s that help to examine the quality of the soil and crops. Field and container nurseries are another way to not only maximize the fertility of the plants but also reduce the production time that comes with the growing process. Though even with the nursery production systems to help us, they are still labor intensive and require pruning, weeding, and irrigation. Robotic farming is yet another advancement in technology being employed in agriculture. Robots in California are wielding so called “Water Knives”, high pressure sprays of water, to harvest lettuce heads. As you can see we already have a general idea of what we want heading into the

In addition, farmers who are subject to working conditions along with the simple nature of human abilities which detract from their ability to inspect a field compared to technology, are eliminated in UAV practices of inspection. The benefit transfers down the line of agriculture when the product the farmer was able to grow has ended up at the grocery store, and by the same means, the support for the drones’ integration is bound to follow.

The “busts” occur because, by forcing a plant to have the highest yield it cause most of the energy to go into growing and not natural defense. To counteract the lower defenses, farmers heavily utilize pesticides. The Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources dubs heavy pesticide use as the “kill ‘em dead” approach which does kill non resistant pests however, pesticide usage selects the resistant strains (Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources). By using pesticides a feedback loop comes to fruition as pesticides increase resistance among pests while farmers find different pesticides in the hopes of staying one foot ahead. Trap cropping has been shown as a solution to the pesticide usage problem. While working towards a PhD in horticulture Jude Boucher, from the Tolland County Extension Office at the University of Connecticut, he experimented with trap cropping (SARE). Boucher set up a system where hot cherry pepper plants were planted around a crop of sweet bell peppers creating a “poisoned fence” protecting the bell pepper crop. By using trap cropping Boucher could use small and well-timed applications of pesticides resulting in a 90% decrease in pesticide use (SARE). Other farmers have also used trap cropping and have found an 18% increase in vine crop yields, a 96% decrease in pesticide use,

The advancement of UAV abilities and technology in recent years has promoted substantial scientific and commercial research into the application and management of this technology. In some areas of development UAV capability has surpassed the regional flight policies and capabilities of manned operations. One of the predominant implementations of UAVs pertains to automated persistent monitoring and surveillance (Nikhil Nigam 2014). Automated persistent surveillance is the use of sensors to continuously capture the activities of a region by adjusting the field of view (FOV) and position of the sensors with minimal or no human interaction (Nikhil Nigam 2014). These surveillance systems provide a powerful solution for perpetual monitoring and

Mankind survival has been supported by various revolutions (agricultural, industrial etc.) for continuous growth and expansion on Earth. Our natural resources are being exhausted from population increase. Food availability is a necessity that will become harder to obtain. The future will rely on applying technology to support population increase. Utilizing new developing technologies into agroforestry systems will fundamentally improve food production, generate higher revenue and will promote sustainability for long-term human existence. This could be essential for developing rural counties where livelihood is dependent on

Agricultural production has increased manifold due to the advent of automation and intelligence in various stages of a crop’s life cycle. Introduction of such processes has led to a significant increase in the output and reduction in the costs incurred in manual labour and other farm equipment. A scheme where machine vision is implemented can be used to perceive the position of a fruit for harvesting. This technology has been used to develop both land and aerial based systems for fruit detection and harvesting. Machine vision in harvesting is broadly based on visual cues and properties of fruit. Machine vision based systems have an advantage as apart from recognition of colour, texture and shape of any object, numerical points for the object are also defined.

In row spot spraying technology has been in the constant development as a means to reduce the application of herbicide. A vision system was develop for a spot spraying mechanism on an autonomous ground vehicle using Hu invariant moment which aims to enable autonomous spot spraying of selective herbicide crop rows [82]. Hu invariant moment plays an important role in weed management which objective is to discriminate between