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How remote sensing is offering complementing and diverging opportunities for precision agriculture users and researchers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2017

R. Jackson ,
R. C. Gaynor ,
A. Bentley ,
J. Hickey ,
I. Mackay  and
E. S. Ober
R. Jackson*
Affiliation:
NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE UK
R. C. Gaynor
Affiliation:
Roslin, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, EH25 9RG, UK
A. Bentley
Affiliation:
NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE UK
J. Hickey
Affiliation:
Roslin, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, EH25 9RG, UK
I. Mackay
Affiliation:
NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE UK
E. S. Ober
Affiliation:
NIAB, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE UK
*
† E-mail robert.jackson@niab.com
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Abstract

Precision farming advances are providing opportunities in both production agriculture and agricultural research. For growers and agronomists, the benefits of identifying where crops are stressed, the location of weeds and estimating yields on a large scale are clear. Researchers, who have different needs, can benefit from a detailed focus on a specific characteristic, such as one disease (e.g. yellow rust). This paper will review how recent advances in technology are beginning to allow the development of specialised tools within research and agriculture and how current precision agriculture tools can be effective at measuring desirable traits.

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ResearchSensorsMultispectralHyperspectralThermal

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