Opinion: Smart farming is key to developing sustainable agriculture

By A. Walter, Robert Finger, Robert Huber, Nina Buchmann. 2017

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A survey of data fusion in smart city applications (2019, background): “3) Smart Agriculture: In order to produce sustainable food resources in smart city, smart farming [177], [178] has become a trend to meet the food supply demand in a smart city.”
Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators (2021, background): “Smart (digital) farming such as innovative precision farming uses extensively ICTs and is seen key for the development of a sustainable agriculture [26].”
Security and Privacy in Smart Farming: Challenges and Opportunities (2020, background): “In fact, it has impacted the complete food supply chain, by employing big data analytics to provide useful insights about the entire farming process [10] by facilitating real-time operational decision making, and revolutionizing existing agriculture business models.”
Extracting leaf area index using viewing geometry effects—A new perspective on high-resolution unmanned aerial system photography (2018, background): “…will facilitate basic research, but also industry-related tasks30 such as innovative breeding, crop protection, or fertilizer monitoring programs (Walter et al., 2017).31 Moreover, high-throughput, automated phenotyping approaches for traits such as leaf area index (LAI),32 canopy cover (CC) or…”
Global urbanization and food production in direct competition for land: Leverage places to mitigate impacts on SDG2 and on the Earth System (2019, background): “Even if we assume technological advances (Walter et al., 2017), the answer is not straightforward.”
A Systematic Review of IoT Solutions for Smart Farming (2020, background): “In view of this, smart farming is a new farm management concept that employs techniques and technologies at various levels and scales of agricultural production, enabling to overcome the challenges in food production demands and reduction in the workforce [3,4].”
Quantitative Remote Sensing at Ultra-High Resolution with UAV Spectroscopy: A Review of Sensor Technology, Measurement Procedures, and Data Correction Workflows (2018, methodology): “We think that the ultra-high resolution of UAV images can be used for precise measurements needed by smart farming [203], agricultural [204] and phenotyping applications [42,205–207] and with the powerful tools provided by object-based image analysis (OBIA; [208,209]) for classification tasks (e.”
Leverage Points for Governing Agricultural Soils: A Review of Empirical Studies of European Farmers’ Decision-Making (2018, background): “However, modern technological developments, such as precision farming and the thus generated data, may lower this load if the information currently provided by farmers could be generated, stored, and transmitted (semi-)automatically and with higher precision [130,146].”
A Survey on Information and Communication Technologies for Industry 4.0: State-of-the-Art, Taxonomies, Perspectives, and Challenges (2019, methodology): “[209] suggested that it is undergoing a fourth revolution triggered by the increasing use of ICTs, that are proving to be the game changers, not only in developed countries but also in developing countries where, e.”
Internet of Things (IoT) and Agricultural Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in smart farming: A comprehensive review (2020, background): “Smart farming is a green technology approach, since it reduces the ecological footprint of traditional farming [3] .”