Application of GPS in Precision Agriculture

• With the help of GPS, we can record variability in the field in form of geographically encoded data.
• We can continuously record and determine the correct position.
• Into this technology, we can get more details of our agricultural land as we got previously, so a bigger database is available for users.
• The correct yield data can only be recorded only on those points where recording is done with GPS position.
• Here the yield monitors and GPS receivers are coupled to provide spatial coordinates for the data of yield monitor.
• It can be made for each field into yield maps.
• The collected information from different satellite and it can be referenced with the help of GPS cab be included to create field management strategies for cultivation, harvest, and chemical application.
• The implementation and development of site-specific farming is only possible by combining the GPS and GIS tools.
• With those technologies, we can collect real-time data with correct position, which will further lead us to effective analysis and manipulation of large amounts of geospatial data.
• For precision farming GPS based application works well and very useful in farm planning as well, like tractor guidance, field mapping, crop scouting, soil sampling, yield mapping and variable rate applications.
• On other hand GPS also helps farmers to work in such typical weather conditions like fog, dust, rain, darkness, and low visibility.