Precision Agriculture in China: Sensing Technology and Application.

Abstract

Precision agriculture (PA) is a farming management method that allows farmers to optimize their resource inputs to achieve high yields. It mainly focuses on fast acquisition of growth and physiological parameters of soil and plants, and distribution of insect pests and weeds, and can provide decision support for PA. Thus, it is possible to realize "overall perception, reliable transmission, and intelligent processing" for a variety of agriculture elements, and achieve the goal of high yield, high efficiency, ecological sustainability, and safety. Since 2000, the National Development and Reform Commission of China and the Beijing Municipal Government invested together to establish the first National Demonstration Base for Precision Agriculture. Currently, the base has achieved fruitful results in terms of PA resource management geographic information system, field information collection systems, airborne remote sensing platform applications, intelligent production and measurement systems, and variable-rate treatment machinery applications.