The Global Positioning System and precision agriculture: an overview of applications in Mauritius

Code (CO)	MSI01P3576
Author (AU)	Jhoty, I. Autrey, L. J. C.
Title - English (ET)	The Global Positioning System and precision agriculture: an overview of applications in Mauritius
Document Type(DT)	periodical article
Language of text (LT)	En
Language of summaries (LS)	En
Abstract (AB)	The Global Positioning System (GPS) is an information technology tool that has been successfully used for cane field mapping, providing data in the geographical information system (GIS) and assisting in the management of transport. In the Mauritian sugar industry, the GPS is helping in the production of large-scale contour maps, the positioning of centre pivot irrigation systems, and in establishing ground reference points to enable further controlled field surveys with the Total Station. The use of Differential GPS (DGPS) and the integration of other technologies towards a total system for precision agriculture for sugar cane are discussed.
Descriptors - English (DE)	Sugarcane Global positioning systems GPS precision agriculture Contour mapping irrigation ground control points geographic information systems DGPS precision agriculture
Descriptors - Geographic (DG)	Mauritius
Sort Key 1(K1)	Sugarcane
Sort Key 2 (K2)	Precision agriculture
Date record entered (DA)	2001-09-11
Language of analysis (LA)	En
MSIRI Staff (MS)	LRD