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Digital Agriculture

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Editors:
  1. Daniel Marçal de Queiroz

    1. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Vicosa, Brazil

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  2. Domingos Sárvio M. Valente

    1. Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Viçosa, Brazil

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  3. Francisco de Assis de Carvalho Pinto

    1. Federal Universidade of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

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  4. Aluízio Borém

    1. Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

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  5. John K. Schueller

    1. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

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  • Digital Farming is a novel concept so this is the first book covering this subject
  • It addresses the digital transformation taking place in modern agriculture
  • This textbook is designed for students and professionals introducing new concepts used in digital farming

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Agriculture Eras

    • Aluízio Borém, Lucas de Paula Corrêdo
    Pages 1-12

  3. Global Navigation Satellite Systems

    • Daniel Marçal de Queiroz, Domingos Sárvio M. Valente, Andre Luiz de Freitas Coelho
    Pages 13-26

  4. Spatial and Temporal Variability Analysis

    • Samuel de Assis Silva, Julião Soares de Souza Lima, Nerilson Terra Santos
    Pages 27-43

  5. Images and Remote Sensing Applied to Agricultural Management

    • Flora Maria de Melo Villar, Jorge Tadeu Fim Rosas, Francisco de Assis de Carvalho Pinto
    Pages 45-57

  6. Geoprocessing Applied to Crop Management

    • Lucas Rios do Amaral, Gleyce Kelly Dantas Araújo Figueiredo
    Pages 59-80

  7. Sampling and Interpretation of Maps

    • Tiago Cappello Garzella, Verônica Satomi Kazama, Mario Hideo Sassaki
    Pages 81-98

  8. Application of Drones in Agriculture

    • Lucas Rios do Amaral, Rodrigo Greggio de Freitas, Marcelo Rodrigues Barbosa Júnior, Isabela Ordine Pires da Silva Simões
    Pages 99-121

  9. Sensors and Actuators

    • Daniel Marçal de Queiroz, Domingos Sárvio M. Valente, Andre Luiz de Freitas Coelho
    Pages 123-142

  10. Control and Automation Systems in Agricultural Machinery

    • Daniel Marçal de Queiroz, Domingos Sárvio M. Valente, Andre Luiz de Freitas Coelho
    Pages 143-156

  11. Digital Irrigation

    • Roberto Filgueiras, Lucas Borges Ferreira, Fernando França da Cunha
    Pages 157-172

  12. Digital Livestock Farming

    • Mario L. Chizzotti, Fernanda H. M. Chizzotti, Gutierrez J. de F. Assis, Igor L. Bretas
    Pages 173-193

  13. Internet of Things in Agriculture

    • José Augusto M. Nacif, Herlon Schmeiske de Oliveira, Ricardo Ferreira
    Pages 195-219

  14. Data Transmission, Cloud Computing, and Big Data

    • Hannes Fischer, Jose Vitor Salvi, Luis Hilário Tobler Garcia
    Pages 221-235

  15. Machine Learning

    • Domingos Sárvio M. Valente, Daniel Marçal de Queiroz, Gustavo Willam Pereira
    Pages 237-258

  16. Platforms, Applications, and Software

    • Andre Luiz de Freitas Coelho, Thiago Furtado de Oliveira, Maurício Nicocelli Netto
    Pages 259-272

  17. Digital Data: Cycle, Standardization, Quality, Sharing, and Security

    • Antonio Mauro Saraiva, Wilian França Costa, Fernando Xavier, Bruno de Carvalho Albertini, Roberto Augusto Castellanos Pfeifer, Marcos Antonio Simplício Júnior et al.
    Pages 273-285

  18. Case Study: SLC Agrícola

    • Ronei Sandri Sana
    Pages 287-301

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 303-306
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About this book

This textbook addresses the most recent advances and main digital technologies used in farming. The reader will be able to understand the main concepts and techniques currently used to efficiently manage agricultural production systems. The book covers topics in a general and intuitive way, with examples and good illustrations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Vicosa, Brazil

    Daniel Marçal de Queiroz

  • Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Viçosa, Brazil

    Domingos Sárvio M. Valente

  • Federal Universidade of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

    Francisco de Assis de Carvalho Pinto

  • Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil

    Aluízio Borém

  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

    John K. Schueller

About the editors

Daniel Marçal de Queiroz: Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biology Engineering from Purdue University, post-doctoral fellow in the same field at the University of Florida. Currently, he is full professor at the Federal University of Vicosa, working in the areas of precision agriculture and agricultural machinery design.

Domingos Sárvio M. Valente: Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering from the Federal University of Viçosa (2010), post-doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois. Currently, he is associate professor at the Federal University of Viçosa, working on research in Precision Agriculture and Digital Farming.


Francisco de Assis de Carvalho Pinto: Ph.D. and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois in Agricultural Engineering. Currently, he is full professor at the Federal University of Viçosa, working in the areas of precision agriculture, artificial vision and image processing.


Aluizio Borem: Dr. Borem is a senior scientist with a successful publishing carrier. He has published 120+ books in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Mandarin and Korean.  With Springer Borem has published several other books in different areas of Agronomy.


John K. Schueller: Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1983. Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Affiliate Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at University of Florida. Prof. Schueller is the Chair Editor-in-Chief of Computers and Electronics in Agriculture and serves on the Management Committee of the Club of Bologna. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digital Agriculture

  • Editors: Daniel Marçal de Queiroz, Domingos Sárvio M. Valente, Francisco de Assis de Carvalho Pinto, Aluízio Borém, John K. Schueller

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14533-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14532-2Published: 08 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14535-3Published: 09 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14533-9Published: 07 November 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 306

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 123 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Agriculture, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Applications, Geography, general, Simulation and Modeling

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