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Article: Agricultural aircraft for site specific agriculture: an integrated solution for remote sensing and variable-rate application.
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- Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Many areas of the United States rely on readily available agricultural airplanes or helicopters for pest management. Only recently have these systems been put into use for variable-rate aerial application, providing a solution for applying field inputs such as cotton growth regulators, defoliants, and insecticide. However, remote sensing, which provides the necessary data, is usually accomplished using general aviation aircraft. Image analysis and image georeferencing to create variable or "on-off" field prescriptions are accomplished externally. These prescriptions are customarily created in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and then converted to prescription format ...