The Role of Precision Agriculture in Cropping Systems

Journal of Crop Production

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 361-381

  Koch, Bradley ^a   Khosla, Rajiv ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Global positioning system; Management zones; Parallel swath bar; Variable rate application; Yield monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345446565     PISSN: 1092678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J144v09n01_02     Document Type: Review

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