Agriculture and Forestry
Increasing level of awareness
of the importance of the Environment
for the man need for its protection,
as well as need for sustainable development
combined with new technologies and
the possibility of gaining more precise
information about his condition,
naturally leads to
new, more efficient , and on the other
hand more balanced, forms of
agriculture and forestry. New definitions of determining that kind of
management are precised agriculture and precised forestry.
Precised agriculture is based on several
fundamental issues that require the
collection, processing and use of relevant data by integration with agricultural machinery. They are:
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Gathering accurate information about land use (mainly by using GPS technology). This includes:
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surface field,
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the coordinates of the field,
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the creation of yield maps, by defining the diversification of crops on the field,
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mineral content in soil,
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Processing the collected data using a computer and specialized software the introduction of processed data to special control devices of agriculture devices,
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Work performance by machinery using VRA technology (Variable Rate Aplication), a variable rate fertilizer technology, using yield maps,
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Management of agricultural machinery with GPS or cooperating with it automatically setting the track cylinders driving on the field precised Forestry, as well as precised agriculture is the term determining the way of conducting sustainable forest management supported by GIS tools.
The definition of precised forestry has three main components:
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Management of farm forestry based on the geospatial data base
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Selective Forestry
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An integrated system for product evaluation
Studies conducted by remote sensing methods and Geographical Information Systems were originally used in forestry - mainly because of huge interest often difficult accessible areas of forests. Along with gained experiences and the development of these techniques they have began be also used for agricultural purposes.