Sensing Approaches for Precision Agriculture

Chapter 1. Introduction and Basic Sensing Concepts.- Chapter 2. Satellite Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture.- Chapter 3. Sensing Crop Geometry and Structure.- Chapter 4. Soil Sensing.- Chapter 5. Sensing with Wireless Sensor Networks.- Chapter 6. Sensing for Health, Vigour and Disease Detection in Row and Grain Crops.- Chapter 7. On-Combine Sensing Techniques in Arable Crops.- Chapter 8. Sensing in Precision Horticulture.- Chapter 9. Sensing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.- Chapter 10. Sensing for Weed Detection.- Chapter 11. Applications of Sensing To Precision Irrigation.- Chapter 12. Applications of Optical Sensing of Crop Health and Vigour.- Chapter 13. Applications of Sensing for Disease Detection.- Chapter 14. Conclusions: Future Directions in Sensing for Precision Agriculture.- Index.

Ruth Kerry: Trained in the UK at the Universities of Oxford (BA, MA Oxon.) and Reading (MSc and PhD) in Geography and Soil Spatial Analysis for Precision Agriculture, respectively, Ruth has been based in the Geography Department at Brigham Young University in Utah, USA since receiving her PhD in 2004.She was hired as an Associate Professor at Brigham Young University in January 2021. She is also an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences at Auburn University, Alabama, USA (2017-2022). Her research has involved mapping and spatial statistics for precision agriculture, soil studies and other applications. She has collaborated on research projects with academics in the UK, USA, Europe, Iran and Chile across a range of precision agriculture and soil science topics. Along with her own research publications, she has a broad overview of the subjects of precision agriculture and spatial analysis having served as guest editor of two special issues of the journal, Precision Agriculture (2008 and 2019) featuring articles from ECPA conferences and a double special issue of Geographical Analysison geostatistical applications. She has attended ECPA conferences since 2003 and has served on the scientific review committee for the last several meetings. She serves on the editorial board for Precision Agriculture (Springer) and is currently the treasurer of the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA).
Alexandre Escolà: Studied Technical Agricultural Engineering at undergraduate level and Agronomical Engineering at Masters level, both at the School of Agrifood and Forestry Science and Engineering of the Universitat de Lleida, Catalonia. His PhD and Masters theses were related to the use of sensors to enhance pesticide spray applications in fruit orchards and he received his PhD in 2010. In 2001, he was employed as part-time equivalent to assistant professor in the same centre and since 2006 as an equivalent to assistant