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Off-road Equipment Engineering Group
Tools for Precision Agriculture
 
With powerful tools, mechanization enormously increased farm productivity, and, when combined with other science and engineering developments, has provided Americans with one of the healthiest diets in the world at minimal cost.  With intelligent tools, precision agriculture is going to enable better farm management decision-making, improve economic efficiency and more.  Dr. Lei Tian, Dr. Donald Bullock (Crop Sci) and Dr. James Westervelt (ACE) have been collaborating on the new information technology for agricultural production:
 
Illinois Laboratory for Agricultural Remote Sensing
 
Sensor-based precision farming system -- Smart sprayer project
 
Sensor development for precision farming systems
 
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