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Agriculture GIS and Precision Farming

Precision Farming lets farmers perform site-specific spatial analyses of agronomic data. The study of geographic features and the relationship between them can be applied to all agriculture sectors. By better understanding how features within the landscape interact, decision makers can optimize efficiency and improve economic returns.

Regardless of scale, whether at the subfield level analyzing crop yield information or internationally assisting government organizations with commodity subsidy programs, organizations such as the United States Department of Agriculture and local or international farmers can benefit by using GIS and GPS.

The following examples illustrate how agriculture GIS assists in precision farming. The following images shows a vineyard in Monterey County. The vineyards is sectioned off into areas known as blocks. The vegetation is analyzed and each block is given a greenness value. The higher the value the more green and biomass is present.

In a vineyard the green healthy vines will produce less and smaller grapes. The good grapes are found on the vines that are more stressed. Stressed vines produces larger more desirable grapes. By using GIS and precision farmer harvest levels are easier to predict and more accurate.

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To learn more about geospatial technology in agriculture please read our vegetation mapping page.