INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE

Abstract

Information support of technology of variable rate application of fertilizers is one of the most important and difficult blocks of technology components. Methods and technical means for obtaining information about spatially distributed data and their
assessment are analyzed in the article. Efficiency of the variable rate application of fertilizers in many respects depends on the volume of the received information and its quality. For the purpose of decrease in costs of obtaining information development of
methods of a choice of ways of obtaining information and justification of that minimum quantity of information at which the maximum payback of fertilizers can be provided is necessary.