Interpreting Remote Sensing Data

Summary:

Can remote sensing fulfill its 30-year-old promise for enhancing profitability in agriculture? The answer is still not clear-cut for everyone, but a combination of past experience and technological improvements is now making it profitable to incorporate remote sensing into many farm and ranch enterprises.
This guideline explores some of the basic analysis options for agricultural applications of remote sensing data. Once remote sensing data have been collected, the user must interpret the data to derive the information needed to help make decisions. It is a given that the data and information will have some associated error. As a producer or service provider, you must decide what amounts of certainty are necessary and whether or not the information is worth the investment.

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