USE OF GEOPROCESSING IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE

Abstract

Increased competitiveness has transformed agriculture, for a long time, producers dealt with crop management without storing information in databases, it was through the emergence of new technologies, such as geoprocessing, that this changed, making it possible to carry out accurate comparisons with previous data and with the history the analyzed area. Precision agriculture is a set of tools and technologies that allows the producer to get to know the entire area for cultivation, helping to increase production yield. This agricultural model has helped professionals in the area, through specific data, historical productivity, application and quantification, fertilizers used, corrective, based on the spatial variability of nutrients in the soil, helping in decision making. Geoprocessing is a set of technologies designed to collect and treat spatial data for a specific purpose. This article aims to analyze the efficiency of the use of geoprocessing in precision agriculture.