This volume collects and presents the fundamentals, tools, and processes of utilizing geospatial information technologies to process remotely sensed data for use in agricultural monitoring and management. The issues related to handling digital agro-geoinformation, such as collecting (including field visits and remote sensing), processing, storing, archiving, preservation, retrieving, transmitting, accessing, visualization, analyzing, synthesizing, presenting, and disseminating agro-geoinformation have never before been systematically documented in one volume. The book is edited by International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics organizers Dr. Liping Di (George Mason University), who coined the term Agro-Geoinformatics in 2012, and Dr. Berk Üstünda (Istanbul Technical University) and are uniquely positioned to curate and edit this foundational text.
The book is composed of eighteen chapters that can each stand alone but also build on each other to give the reader a comprehensive understanding of agro-geoinformatics and what the tools and processes that compose the field can accomplish. Topics covered include land parcel identification, image processing in agricultural observation systems, databasing and managing agricultural data, crop status monitoring, moisture and evapotranspiration assessment, flood damage monitoring, agricultural decision support systems and more.

Offers comprehensive coverage of tools and technologies related to the use geo-information for agriculture Useful for researchers, senior undergraduate and graduate students, and decision makers in the agro-geoinformatics related fields Provides a foundational volume in a rapidly developing field

Autorentext

Dr. Liping Di serves as Professor and Director of the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems at George Mason University in Virginia, USA. He coined the term "Agro-geoinformatics" in 2012. Dr. Berk Üstündag serves as Associate Professor and Director of the Agricultural Monitoring and Information System Center at IStanbul Technical University in Turkey.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction to Agro-geoinformatics: Theory and Practices.- Chapter 2: Remote sensing for agriculture.- Chapter 3. GIS fundamentals for agriculture.- Chapter 4. Agro-geoinformatics data sources and sourcing.- Chapter 5. Standards and interoperability.- Chapter 6. Image processing methods in agricultural observation systems.- Chapter 7. Data Fusion in Agricultural Information Systems.- Chapter 8. Big Data and its Applications in Agro-Geoinformatics.- Chapter 9. Land Parcel Identification.- Chapter 10. Crop Pattern and Status Monitoring.- Chapter 11. Crop Growth Modeling and Yield Forecasting.- Chapter 12. Spatial and Temporal Monitoring System for Agriculture.- Chapter 13. Spatial Data Usage in Turkish Agriculture.- Chapter 14. Geospatial Land Use and Land Cover Data for Improving Agricultural Area Sampling Frames.- Chapter 15. Mapping and Monitoring of Soil Moisture, Evapotranspiration and Agricultural Drought.- Chapter 16. Flood Monitoring and Crop Damage Assessment.- Chapter 17. Remote sensing-based mapping of plastic-mulched landcover.- Chapter 18. Design and Implementation of Geospatial Data Services for Agriculture.