Participative site-specific agriculture analysis for smallholders

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 594-610

  Aragó Galindo, Pau ^a   Granell, Carlos ^a   Molin, Paulo Guilherme ^b   Huerta Guijarro, Joaquín ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

GIS; Low technology; Participatory GIS; Site specific; Smallholders

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GIS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SMALLHOLDER;

EID: 84866052643     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-012-9267-4     Document Type: Review

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