This book provides a review of precision agriculture technology development, followed by a presentation of the state-of-the-art and future requirements of precision agriculture technology. It presents different styles of precision agriculture technologies suitable for large scale mechanized farming; highly automated community-based mechanized pr

Dr. Qin Zhang is the director of the Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems and a professor of agricultural automation in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University (WSU). Before joining the faculty at WSU, he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has authored two textbooks and six separate book chapters, edited two technical books and two conference proceedings, published 125 journal articles, presented more than 200 papers at professional conferences, and been awarded 10 U.S. patents. He is currently the editor in chief of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

A History of Precision Agriculture. Sensing Technology for Precision Crop Farming. Data Processing and Utilization in Precision Agriculture. Control of Precision Agriculture Production. Intelligent Agricultural Machinery and Field Robots. Precision Agriculture in Large-Scale Mechanized Farming. A Systems Approach to Community-Based Precision Agriculture. Precision Agriculture in China: Sensing Technology and Application. Good Agricultural Practices, Quality, Traceability, and Precision Agriculture. State of the Art and Future Requirements.