Although the site-specific technology has provided farmers opportunities in improving their profitability and enhancing sustainability in production, the increase in information intensity make it difficult to manage and utilize information effectively. Effective site-specific production is an information intensive operation. Success in precision agriculture heavily relies on the capability of information processing. The goal of this research is to develop a production information management platform for tractors which is capable of utilizing the information residing in off-machinery sources and obtained from on machinery sensors to support precision agriculture.
Tractors are the platforms for performing site-specific production.
It is very important to furnish the platforms with efficient information processing and decision-making support capabilities. An automated guided tractor equipped with a vision sensor and GPS system furnished the capability of obtaining position and pathway information in real time.