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Application of Gis in Precision Farming

Precision farming uses GIS and remote sensing technologies to manage variability in fields and increase profits while reducing environmental impact. GIS can be used to monitor crop growth stages, identify weed and pest infestation hotspots, map soil nutrients, plan precision conservation activities, enable variable rate application of inputs, and create yield maps. Key technologies that have advanced precision farming include GPS, sensors, remote sensing, variable rate treatment, and GIS.

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Application of Gis in Precision Farming

Precision farming uses GIS and remote sensing technologies to manage variability in fields and increase profits while reducing environmental impact. GIS can be used to monitor crop growth stages, identify weed and pest infestation hotspots, map soil nutrients, plan precision conservation activities, enable variable rate application of inputs, and create yield maps. Key technologies that have advanced precision farming include GPS, sensors, remote sensing, variable rate treatment, and GIS.

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APPLICATION OF GIS IN

PRECISION FARMING
FPPT.com
WHAT IS PRECISION FARMING?
• It is defined as the application of technologies and
principles to manage spatial and temporal variability
associated with all aspects of agricultural production
(Pierce and Nowak, 1999)
• A management strategy which identifies, analyses and
manages within field variability for increased profit and
reduced environmental impact
• Farming by the foot, farming by satellite, site specific
management and prescription farming
APPLICATIONS OF GIS
• Crop Growth Stages
• Weed Insect and Disease infestation
• Soil fertility, Micro and Macro nutrients
• Precision Conservation
• Variable Rate Application
• Yield Mapping
• Location Technology and Farming
CROP GROWTH STAGES
• The crop growth can be monitored ysing RS and GIS it is
very easy to identify the stages of crop growth such as
the period of maturity, weed and paste infestation, crop
stresses like water and nutrients stress, diseases etc.
integrating the data collected through the different
censors using GPS, it is easy to gather and integrate
information for field management strategies like
application of the chemicals, mode of cultivation and
harvest.
WEED INSECT AND DISEASE INFESTATION

• As a part of post disaster management, hotspots for disease


infestation are often mapped after the entire crop gets destroyed.
Apart from mapping the incidence of diseases, GIS and RS also assist
the experts in understanding the reason behind the crop infestation.

• Once the spatial integration of the maps of all the occurrences of


diseases is made with the agroecological zones, it becomes very easy
to locate the possible future hotspots of similar infestation.

• GIS and RS is advantageous in not only for providing the maps but also
as tools of signaling early warning of precaution to the farmers
regarding possible crop infestations
Soil fertility, Micro and Macro nutrients

• Provide flexibility to the users in overlaying the different real world layers and
find the most suited model of a précised agricultural practice.
• At the village level, scale of datasets generated in the national level is made
available. The national and state level government also runs mobile units for soil
sampling which conduct soil tests and also sample them as coordinates on the
GPS. The spatial inventory at the state level maintains these datasets. This further
helps in generating data for the type of soil based on the slope, terrain and the
other aspects of hilly areas. Once the soil mapping is over, it can be of great use in
simulating the yield of the crop with various sets of varieties and other
agricultural inputs
Precision Conservation
• The potential sites of irrigation can be identified
through GIS
• GIS expert can also helps the farmers in locating the
suitable natural slopes which can retain the monsoon
water through rain harvesting or water storage tanks.
• With the intervention of GIS the farmers also can set
new channels, linked with the local hilly streams for
irrigation purpose.
Variable Rate Treatment (VRT)
Variable rate treatment provides the precision
farmer with the ability to accept information pertaining
to within-field variability and plan management
operations to best release the potential of a field.
Use of multiple flow-rate fertilizer spreaders that vary
application across the field to match the local
requirements and the management of weeds with flow
rate controlled sprayers to match previously collected
weed incidence maps
Yield mapping
Combines the accurate location information of DGPS
with the results of a variable-flow rate (yield) sensor.
The resulting yield-variability map can then be used to
spatially locate high- and Iow-yielding areas of
managerial interest for further investigation
Key Technologies

Technologies that have advanced the


introduction of precision farming include GPS,
continuous data sensors, remote sensing, VRT, and GIS

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