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Ye 2013
Ye 2013
Ye 2013
Abstract—This thesis is based on the application of Internet of of crops amount distribution and the logistics monitoring.
Things (IoT) and WebGIS in precision agriculture. Through However, the technique is still in the stage of research and
analyzing the current development of precision agriculture in perfecting. In addition, most of the application sites are large
China and considering its advantages and shortcomings, we farms that will have a positive economic benefit.
choose an ecology farm as an example to conduct a new precision
agriculture management system (PAMS) based on the above two The start of research and application of precision
techniques. We designed the four architectures of PAMS: the agriculture in China was later than in foreign countries. In 1991,
spatial information infrastructure platform, the IoT the Beijing government organized “the Research on the
infrastructure platform, the agriculture management platform Application of GPS Navigation in Protecting the Crops from
and the mobile client. Users can monitor and manage the Flying Insects” project team with financial support. In 1992, 8
agriculture production by PAMS. What’s more, module units including Beijing plant protection institute, the National
integration method and open source software can help us to Academy of Sciences, Beijing University of Aeronautics and
reduce the development cost and to improve the system efficiency. Astronautics, Beijing University of Technology, and so on,
cooperated to research together on protecting the wheat from
Keywords-Precision Agriculture; Internet of Things; WebGIS; aphids by satellite navigation plane. Through 3 years of hard
LBS work, they succeeded in protecting the wheat from aphids in
I. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRECISION AGRICULTURE the large area. In the late part of 1990’s, the spatial variation of
soil nutrients based on precision agriculture was successfully
Precision agriculture is an agriculture management system applied in our country. In 2000, Tsinghua University and
which is based on information technology. It uses sensors and Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture had an experiment.
modern advanced monitoring techniques to get land and crop They divided the cropland in detail by using the GPS cropland
data completely, correctly and timely. With the analysis by GIS management system and the Beijing basic cropland
(Geography Information System), precision agriculture can information management system, so they can achieve the goal
help people to make the correct decision. It is an important part of accurate sampling and fertilization. Since 2006, China has
of digital agriculture and a good combination of the modern used Long-March 4D rocket to successfully launch the first
agriculture production methods and the newest high-tech remote sensing satellite to the orbit at Jiuquan Satellite Launch
techniques. Nowadays, the main techniques of precision Center, Gansu, China. Until 2009, China has successfully
agriculture are GPS (Global Positioning System), RS (Remote launched all seven remote sensing satellites into space. These
Sensing) and GIS. By these techniques, we can monitor the satellites are used for land resources exploration, environment
distribution of crops production, the composition of soil and its monitoring and protection, city planning, crop production
distribution, fertilize, seed, and spray reasonably, and reduce evaluation, disaster prevention and mitigation, experiment of
the operation costs, so that we can raise the production and spatial scientific, and so on. All of these applications will help
economy benefit and reduce the environment pollution caused the development of China’s economy. Many kinds of variable
by abusing agricultural chemicals. input systems have been studied and have gotten a few
Nowadays, precision agriculture is applied widely in achievements, such as the management system of auto variable
developed countries, while the integration technique is applied fertilizing in precision agriculture designed by Shuhui Zhang
in the precision agriculture. The American National Research and Chenglin Ma, the GIS system of variable fertilizing in
Institute, which is the birthplace of precision agriculture, has precision agriculture designed by Xinzhong Wang and Xi
proposed this technique into the national development Wang, and the monitoring and decision maker system of
strategies since 1997. European countries have also carried out cropland water designed by Fuyu Ma.
the research on precision agriculture and had a lot of practice. In conclusion, our country has started the research on the
In Asia, the Japanese government launched the plan named application of precision and informalization agriculture, but the
“Agricultural Machinery Emergency Development Project In whole technique is still at a low level. By using the traditional
the 21st Century”. Then South Korea and Malaysia also have 3S(GPS, RS, GIS) technique, we can only get the large scale
conducted the same research. The main techniques are and non-real time data in the data gathering process, but the
information acquisition, positioning technique, the monitoring more detail data, real time data and the environment data which
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