Agricultura de Precisão: Um Mapeamento da Base da Scielo

Abstract

Precision agriculture is a highly relevant topic since Brazil plays an important role regarding exporters of agricultural products, being one of the main agricultural exporters of the world. Thus, Precision Agriculture emerges with the goal of optimizing efficiency and effectiveness of the agricultural areas through soil studies and spacial variability by using state of the art technology to settle deficiencies in management zones. Accordingly, there is a need for an evaluation of the situation of academic essays about the topic. Therefore, the goal of this study is based on verifying such academic essays on the PA and its approaches. For this purpose, a descriptive quantitative bibliometric research was performed on SciELO data base with 184 analyzed essays. This analysis resulted in: identification of participation in periodicals, publishing year, language, number of authors, keywords or keyterms frequency on the essays objectives in order to relate them to the areas of application and the yield that are most quoted in such essays. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]