Features of Implementation of Precision Agriculture Technologies on Cultivated Slope Lands

DOI

10.2991/agrosmart-18.2018.157How to use a DOI?

Keywords

precision agriculture, Earth's remote sensing, monitoring of agricultural machinery

Abstract

The article discusses the specific features of implementation of precision farming technologies on cultivated slope lands. Culti-vated slope land is a natural-territorial complex, the natural vege-tation of which is mostly replaced by agrocenoses. Because of their ecological instability, the complex of agronomic, melioration and ecological measures is carried out to ensure the stability of this sort of soil. When estimating the condition of the cultivated slope lands, it is necessary to take into account the parameters of the slopes, the size of the contours, hydrological regime, types and varieties of soils, erosion processes, economic conditions, location, etc. The monitoring of these parameters will make it possible to detect timely hidden impacts or changes, and to recover the stability of the agroecosystem as in case of maintaining the hydrodynamic characteristics of the soil cover for a certain period of time. In order to detect the hydrodynamic characteristics of soil and vegetation cover, some measurement data are necessary to esti-mate the water balance components of the cultivated slope lands, a number of measurement data of soil and vegetation cover and data of Earth's remote sensing (ERS). For remote monitoring of agricultural lands, we use multi-spectral satellite images made by means of Earth`s remote sensing offered by the European space Agency that allows one to estab-lish Normalized Difference Vegetation Index NDVI and land configuration. The RTK-mode ensures the operation of the autopilot system and course indicator with the accuracy of 5 cm. The system receives, processes and stores data of the remote diagnostics of agricultural machinery, weather forecast and other data for 5-10 days. Ground-based technical means of control of the underlying surface were used for ground monitoring. Field research procedures have been performed using different soil fertility with the use of the laser profile recorder of non-contact and contact type. As a result of experimental studies, the specific features of precision farming technologies implementation were established and the prospects of their application on slope lands were determined.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sergey Anatolyevich Vasilyev
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Features of Implementation of Precision Agriculture Technologies on Cultivated Slope Lands
BT  - International scientific and practical conference "AgroSMART - Smart solutions for agriculture" (AgroSMART 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 841
EP  - 844
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/agrosmart-18.2018.157
DO  - 10.2991/agrosmart-18.2018.157
ID  - Vasilyev2018/12
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