title: Precision farming and precision pest management: the power of new crop production technologies.
abstract: The use of new technologies including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), Variable Rate Technology (VRT), and Remote Sensing (RS) is gaining acceptance in the present high-technology, precision agricultural industry. GIS provides the ability to link multiple data values for the same geo-referenced location, and provides the user with a graphical visualization of such data. When GIS is coupled with GPS and RS, management decisions can be applied in a more precise "micro-managed" manner by using VRT techniques. Such technology holds the potential to reduce agricultural crop production costs as well as crop and environmental damage.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Strickland
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Ess
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Parsons