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What it is:
Precision Agriculture is something that is viewed as only being used by large farms with money to spare. There are systems that are extremely elaborate, precise, and expensive that are used, and there are systems that are adequately precise at a very reasonable price. While the less expensive systems are viewed less favorably, they are far superior to none at all. Giving accuracy within a couple of meters, the systems used today help to track application of various chemicals, land loss to erosion, and even automatically pilot equipment to account for these things while it does the driving and application on its own. These systems have unique advantages in the fact that they allow farmers to now work in low visibility from things like rain, dust, fog, and even darkness.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Why it is done:
These systems in a broad sense have large favorability in environmental impact as it reduces reapplication of chemicals and water on plants. The application of these systems in a farm by farm view are noticeable to the individual farmer, and the application of these systems in a global view are noticeable to the whole population.
 
This project presents the information to Precision Agriculture today. Each page on this site provides information relevant to this area from the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) used for mapping fields, GPS (Global Positioning System) that uses the maps from GIS systems, remote sensing, and products that incorporate these technological advances today.
 
This site was created with help from wix.com by Justin Abel, Dane Boring, and Alex Hajek-Jones for the group project in EB/ES/GE 351 Introduction to Geospatial Analysis at Emporia State University.
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