Chapter 1
Introduction to Agro-Geoinformatics:
Theory and Practices
Liping Di and Berk Üstündağ
Abstract Agro-geoinformation, the agricultural-related geo-information, is the key
information in the agricultural decision making and policy formulation process.
Agro-geoinformatics is the interdisciplinary field of study on acquisition,
processing, management, and applications of agro-geoinformation. This book summarizes the recent progresses of the agro-geoinformatics in both theory and practices. This introduction chapter provides the overview of the book and introduces the
contents in each chapter.
Keywords Agro-geoinformation · Agro-geoinformatics · Agriculture · Information
technology · Data science
Agro-geoinformation is a prominent factor in the agricultural planning, decisionmaking, management, and policy formulation process. Recent advances in informatics and the geoinformatics have created new opportunities and challenges for
agricultural applications and the management systems. Agro-geoinformation covers
agricultural data and the information at spatial, spatiotemporal, and the administrative domains. Agro-geoinformatics, a new interdisciplinary study dealing with agrogeoinformation, has an increasing role against continuously raising efficiency
requirement in agricultural activities. It incorporates processing, storing, archiving,
retrieving, managing, visualizing, analyzing, synthesizing, presenting, disseminating, and usage of agro-geoinformation through monitoring, communication, and
computational systems and devices. Agro-geoinformation science and the applications deal with agricultural production and management activities at all scales,
including parcel, basin, region, country, and the global.
L. Di (*)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
e-mail: ldi@gmu.edu
B. Üstündağ
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
e-mail: bustundag@itu.edu.tr
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
L. Di, B. Üstündağ (eds.), Agro-geoinformatics, Springer Remote Sensing/
Photogrammetry, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66387-2_1
1
Introduction to Agro-Geoinformatics:
Theory and Practices
Liping Di and Berk Üstündağ
Abstract Agro-geoinformation, the agricultural-related geo-information, is the key
information in the agricultural decision making and policy formulation process.
Agro-geoinformatics is the interdisciplinary field of study on acquisition,
processing, management, and applications of agro-geoinformation. This book summarizes the recent progresses of the agro-geoinformatics in both theory and practices. This introduction chapter provides the overview of the book and introduces the
contents in each chapter.
Keywords Agro-geoinformation · Agro-geoinformatics · Agriculture · Information
technology · Data science
Agro-geoinformation is a prominent factor in the agricultural planning, decisionmaking, management, and policy formulation process. Recent advances in informatics and the geoinformatics have created new opportunities and challenges for
agricultural applications and the management systems. Agro-geoinformation covers
agricultural data and the information at spatial, spatiotemporal, and the administrative domains. Agro-geoinformatics, a new interdisciplinary study dealing with agrogeoinformation, has an increasing role against continuously raising efficiency
requirement in agricultural activities. It incorporates processing, storing, archiving,
retrieving, managing, visualizing, analyzing, synthesizing, presenting, disseminating, and usage of agro-geoinformation through monitoring, communication, and
computational systems and devices. Agro-geoinformation science and the applications deal with agricultural production and management activities at all scales,
including parcel, basin, region, country, and the global.
L. Di (*)
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
e-mail: ldi@gmu.edu
B. Üstündağ
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
e-mail: bustundag@itu.edu.tr
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
L. Di, B. Üstündağ (eds.), Agro-geoinformatics, Springer Remote Sensing/
Photogrammetry, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66387-2_1
1