Introducing processes and applications based on a global scale, the book reveals how precision agriculture can be used in large-scale agriculture, community agriculture, and diversified farming. It includes site-specific information from a variety of information sources for planning, planting, growing, and harvesting agricultural crops. It also presents a new concept based on the control system theory that can be used to formulate systematic methods for more effective precision crop production.--COVER.

A history of precision agriculture /David Franzen and David Mulla -- Sensing technology for precision crop farming / Marvin L. Stone and William R. Raun -- Data processing and utilization in precision agriculture / Chunjiang Zhao, Liping Chen, Guijun Yang, and Xiaoyu Song -- Control of precision agriculture production / Qin Zhang -- Intelligent agricultural machinery and field robots / Shufeng Han, Brian L. Steward, and Lie Tang -- Precision agriculture in large-scale mechanized farming / Chenghai Yang, Ruixiu Sui, and Won Suk Lee -- A systems approach to community-based precision agriculture / Sakae Shibusawa -- Precision agriculture in China: sensing technology and application / Hong Sun and Minzan Li -- Good agricultural practices, quality, traceability, and precision agriculture / Josse De Baerdemaeker and Wouter Saeys -- State of the art and future requirements / Hermann Auernhammer and Markus Demmel.