Big Data in Smart Farming – A review
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In this paper, the authors present a review of the state-of-the-art of Big Data applications in Smart Farming and identify the related socio-economic challenges to be addressed.About:
This article is published in Agricultural Systems.The article was published on 2017-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1477 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Big data & Supply chain.read more
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Internet of underground things in precision agriculture: Architecture and technology aspects
TL;DR: State-of-the-art communication architectures are reviewed, and underlying sensing technology and communication mechanisms for IOUT are presented, and recent advances in the theory and applications of wireless underground communication are reported.
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Scientific development of smart farming technologies and their application in Brazil
Dieisson Pivoto,Paulo Dabdab Waquil,Edson Talamini,Caroline Pauletto Spanhol Finocchio,Vitor Francisco Dalla Corte,Giana de Vargas Mores +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize the scientific knowledge about smart farming that is available in the worldwide scientific literature based on the main factors of development by country and over time and describe current smart farming prospects in Brazil from the perspective of experts in this field.
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Nanoparticle-Based Sustainable Agriculture and Food Science: Recent Advances and Future Outlook
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the critical points to address the current nanotechnology-based agricultural research that could benefit productivity and food security in future, and highlight some of the most important issues to be addressed.
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Internet of Things in arable farming: Implementation, applications, challenges and potential
TL;DR: This review is addressing an analytical survey of the current and potential application of Internet of Things in arable farming, where spatial data, highly varying environments, task diversity and mobile devices pose unique challenges to be overcome compared to other agricultural systems.
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Automated pastures and the digital divide: How agricultural technologies are shaping labour and rural communities
Sarah Rotz,Evan Gravely,Ian Mosby,Emily Duncan,Elizabeth Finnis,Mervyn Horgan,Joseph LeBlanc,Ralph C. Martin,Hannah Tait Neufeld,Andrew Nixon,Laxmi Prasad Pant,Vivian Shalla,Evan D. G. Fraser +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use literature and field data to outline some key trends being observed at the nexus of agricultural production, technology, and labour in North America, with a particular focus on the Canadian context.
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TL;DR: The Mechanisms of Governance as discussed by the authors is an important work in the field of transaction cost economics, a branch of the New Institutional Economics with which Oliver Williamson is especially associated.