A Hierarchical Planning Scheme Based on Precision Agriculture

Víctor M. Albornoz (), Néstor M. Cid-García (), Rodrigo Ortega () and Yasmín A. Ríos-Solís ()
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Víctor M. Albornoz: Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Néstor M. Cid-García: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)
Rodrigo Ortega: Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
Yasmín A. Ríos-Solís: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)

Chapter Chapter 6 in Handbook of Operations Research in Agriculture and the Agri-Food Industry, 2015, pp 129-162 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The process for agriculture planning starts by delineating the field into site-specific rectangular management zones to face within-field variability. We propose a bi-objective model that minimizes the number of these zones and maximizes their homogeneity with respect to a soil property. Then we use a method to assign the crops to the different plots to obtain the best profit at the end of the production cycle subject to water forecasts for the period, humidity sensors, and the chemical and physical properties of the zones within the plot. With this crop planning model we can identify the best management zones of the previous bi-objective model. Finally, we show a real-time irrigation method to decide the amount of water for each plot, at each irrigation turn, in order to maximize the total final yield. This is a critical decision in countries where water shortages are frequent. In this study we integrate these stages in a hierarchical process for the agriculture planning and empirically prove its efficiency.

Keywords: Pareto Front; Production Cycle; Management Zone; Humidity Sensor; Potential Zone (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2483-7_6

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