Title :
A conception of digital agriculture
Author :
Tang, Shihao ; Zhu, Qijiang ; Zhou, Xiaodong ; Liu, Shaomin ; Wu, Menxin
Author_Institution :
Dept. Geogr., Beijing Normal Univ., China
Abstract :
On the analysis of characteristics of current agriculture, we put forward the conception of digital agriculture, and construct its framework. Relationships between precision agriculture, digital Earth, information agriculture, virtual agriculture and digital agriculture are analyzed. The necessities to put forward the concept of digital agriculture, the feasibility to realize digital agriculture and the measures should be taken are also discussed in our paper.
Keywords :
agriculture; farming; geographic information systems; remote sensing; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; GIS; concept; digital Earth; digital agriculture; farming; geographic information system; information agriculture; precision agriculture; remote sensing; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; virtual agriculture; Agricultural machinery; Agriculture; Centralized control; Databases; Fertilizers; Geographic Information Systems; Information analysis; Meteorology; Remote sensing; Soil;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7536-X
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026858
