Role of precision agriculture in phosphorus management practices

Phosphorus: Agriculture and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 881-908

  Mallarino, Antonio P ^a   Schepers, James S ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agronomic phosphorus recommendations; Computer hardware; Environmental phosphorus management; Global positioning systems; Precision agriculture technologies; Product application controllers; Remote sensing; Spatial variability; Temporal variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949125801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr46.c27     Document Type: Chapter

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