Table of Contents

1. Precision Agriculture Technology: A Pathway Toward Sustainable Agriculture
2. Soil Spatial Variability and its Management with Precision Agriculture
3. Geospatial Technologies for the Control of Pest and Disease in Crops
4. Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Agriculture
5. Applications of Geospatial Technologies for Precision Agriculture
6. Precision Irrigation: Challenges and Opportunities
7. Variable Rate Technologies Development, Adaptation and Opportunities in Agriculture
8. Yield Monitoring and Precision Harvesting to Improve Farm Profitability Topics and Subtopics
9. Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Applications for Agriculture
10. Artificial Neural Modeling for Precision Agricultural Water Management Practices
11. Precision Agriculture: Making Agriculture Sustainable
12. Environment: Role of Precision Agriculture Technologies

Adoption of Precision Agriculture Technologies

About the Author

Qamar Zaman is a professor of precision agriculture at the Department of Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, Canada, and the vice-chancellor of the University of Arid Agriculture Rawalpindi, in Pakistan. He has authored more than 100 scientific research publications, several industry presentations and has reviewed and refereed research projects, papers, books, and articles from various journals and organizations. Dr. Zaman has over twenty-five years of experience in teaching, research and extension in precision agriculture from various national and international universities and international organizations, including the University of Agriculture (Pakistan), the University of New Castle upon Tyne (England), the University of Florida (USA), Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (Japan), and Dalhousie University (Canada).