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Precision Agriculture: An Overview of the Field and Women’s Contributions to It

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Women in Precision Agriculture

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Precision agriculture is about viewing and treating the agricultural process as a system and incorporating information available from all its parts to improve its performance. In order to do so, new enabling processes, tools, and technologies had to be developed to enable the observation and measurement of important variables, facilitate the study and assessment of these variables to extract relevant information and knowledge, and use this knowledge to control the agricultural process and its inputs/outputs. This book is a compilation of contributions, breakthroughs, and impactful research done by leading female researchers and scholars from various fields and from around the world toward making precision agriculture a reality. These researchers are creating new technological advances that are revolutionizing agriculture and providing innovative solutions to some of today’s most challenging global food problems, paving the way for a smarter, more precise, more efficient, and more profitable agriculture for the twenty-first century. This is the only known book focused on advances in precision agriculture for both land and livestock, led by women researchers and scholars, hence providing a unique woman’s perspective in a field primarily dominated by men. This chapter presents a holistic overview of the field, highlighting relevant technologies, decision-making strategies, practices, applications, economics, opportunities, and challenges for both land and livestock applications.

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Hamrita, T.K., Deal, K., Gant, S., Selsor, H. (2021). Precision Agriculture: An Overview of the Field and Women’s Contributions to It. In: Hamrita, T. (eds) Women in Precision Agriculture. Women in Engineering and Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49244-1_1

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