Encyclopedia of Digital Agricultural Technologies (Hardcover)

Digital agriculture is an emerging concept of modern farming that refers to managing farms using modern Engineering Information and Communication Technologies (EICT) aiming at increasing the overall efficiency of agricultural production improving the quantity and quality of products and optimizing the human labor required and natural resource consumption in operations. This encyclopedia is designed to collect the summaries of knowledge on as many as subjects or aspects relevant to ECIT for digital agriculture present such knowledge in entries and arrange them alphabetically by articles titles. Springer Major Reference Works platform offers Live Update capability. Our reference work takes full advantage of this feature which allows for continuous improvement or revision of published content electronically.The Editorial Board Dr. Irwin R. Donis-Gonzalez University of California Davis Dept. Biological and Agricultural Engineering Davis USA (Section: Postharvest Technologies) Prof. Paul Heinemann Pennsylvania State University Department Head of Agricultural and Biological Engineering PA USA (Section: Technologies for Crop Production)Prof. Manoj Karkee Washington State University Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems Washington USA (Section: Robotics and Automation Technologies) Prof. Minzan Li China Agricultural University Beijing China (Section: Precision Agricultural Technologies) Prof. Dikai Liu University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Faculty of Engineering & Information Technologies Broadway NSW Australia (Section: AI Information and Communication Technologies) Prof. Tomas Norton University of Leuven Dept. of Biosystems Heverlee Leuven Belgium (Section: Technologies for Animal and Aquatic Production) Dr. Manuela Zude-Sasse Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) Precision Horticulture Potsdam Germany (Section: Engineering and Mechanization Technologies)