BOOK REVIEWS - Precision agriculture

Precision agriculture (PA) is a term, which has recently become very popular in agronomy. In short this term means crop production based on site-specific crop management (SSCM). Precision agriculture is an integrated agricultural management system incorporating different science disciplines e.g. crop science, agricultural engineering and geostatistics. It also uses numerous tools i.e., geographic information system (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), remote sensing yield monitors. Because of the multidisciplinary character of precision agriculture, books published on this subject differ in their content. The first books on this topic appeared in the mid 90’ of the last century. The intention of this paper is to present reviews of three books the titles of which each contains the term “precision agriculture”. The books are as follows:1) Handbook of Precision Agriculture – Principles and Applications (2006) edited by Ancha Srinivasan. 2) Precision Agriculture’05 (2005) edited by John V. Stafford 3) Precision Agriculture (2006) by Terry A. Brasse.