| Description |
1 online resource (522 pages) |
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Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Part I: Pest Population Monitoring: Modern Tools -- 1: Applications of Geospatial Technologies in Plant Health Management -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Need for Remote Sensing in Plant Protection -- 1.2.1 Nature and Magnitude of Crop Losses -- 1.2.2 Changing Agroecosystems and Related Pest Problems -- 1.2.3 Timeliness and Accuracy of Information -- 1.2.4 Organization of Plant Protection and Gaps in the Existing System -- 1.2.5 Gaps in the Existing System |
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1.3 Physical and Physiological Basis of Plant Health Assessment -- 1.3.1 Leaf Reflectance -- 1.3.2 Canopy Reflectance -- 1.3.3 Crop Canopy Temperature -- 1.3.4 Vegetation Indices -- 1.3.5 Vitality Indicator for Plants -- 1.3.6 Chlorophyll Fluorescence as Stress Indicator -- 1.3.7 Image Interpretation and Spatial Data Analysis -- 1.4 Application of Remote Sensing in Plant Health Management: Select Examples -- 1.4.1 Beginning and Development -- 1.5 Case Studies -- 1.5.1 Vegetation Indices for Stress Detection and Damage Assessment |
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1.6 Satellite Remote Sensing Survey of Ecological Conditions and Forecasting Desert Locusts -- 1.7 Forecasting Wheat Stem Rust and Crop Condition Assessment Using Satellite and Landsat Data -- 1.8 Satellite Remote Sensing Techniques for Pest Management of Brown Plant Hopper -- 1.9 Remote Sensing Applications in the Management of Cotton Whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) -- 1.10 Short-Range Forecast of Rainfall for Pesticide Applications -- 1.11 Use of IR5-1 A Data for Disease Detection -- 1.12 Present Constraints and Future Perspectives -- References |
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2: Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Pest Surveillance, Monitoring and Management -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 UAV as a System, Payloads and Sensors -- 2.3 UAV Platform (Flying Unit) -- 2.3.1 Airframe -- 2.3.2 Flight Control System -- 2.3.3 Ground Control Station -- 2.4 Payload -- 2.5 Aerial Imaging/Remote Sensing Using UAVs -- 2.6 Types of Sensors for Remote Sensing in Agriculture -- 2.7 The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Light -- 2.8 How Does Remote Sensing Work? -- 2.9 Sensors Used in UAV-Based Imaging or Remote Sensing -- 2.10 Thermal Camera |
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2.11 Multispectral Imaging -- 2.12 Hyperspectral Imaging -- 2.13 UAV for Monitoring Pests -- References -- 3: Unmanned Aerial System Technologies for Pesticide Spraying -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 UAVs for Pest Management -- 3.3 UAV-Based Remote Sensing -- 3.4 UAV Types -- 3.5 UAV Payloads -- 3.6 UAV Remote Sensing Application -- 3.6.1 Flight Campaign -- 3.6.2 UAV Remote-Sensed Aerial Imagery Processing for Paddy Crop-Pest Mapping -- 3.7 Mechanism of Functions -- References -- 4: Insect Pest Detection, Migration and Monitoring Using Radar and LiDAR Systems -- 4.1 Introduction |
| Summary |
Several Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approaches are available for managing pests of varied kinds, including individual and integrated methods for pest suppression. Recently the focus has shifted to pest management tools that act on insect systems selectively, are compatible with the environment, and are not harmful for ecosystems. Other approaches target specific biochemical and physiological aspects of insect metabolism, and involve biotechnological and genetic manipulation. Still other approaches include the use of nanotechnology, endophytes, optical and sonic manipulation to detect and control pest insects. Unfortunately, conventional forms of pest management do not focus on technology transfer to the ground level workers and farmers. As a result, farmers are incurring huge losses of crops and revenues. This book highlights the importance of using communication tools in pest management and demonstrates some success stories of utilizing automated unmanned technologies in this context. The content is divided into three sections, the first of which, "Pest Population Monitoring: Modern Tools," covers long and short-range pest population monitoring techniques and tools such as satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles/drones, remote sensing, digital tools like GIS, GPS for mapping, lidar, mobile apps, software systems, artificial diet designs and functional diversity of info-chemicals. The second section of the book is devoted to "Emerging Areas in Pest Management" and offers a glimpse of diversified tactics that have been developed to contain and suppress pest populations such as endophytes, insect vectors of phytoplasma, Hymenopterans parasitoids, mass production and utilization of NPV etc. In turn, the third section focuses on "Integrated Pest Management" and presents farming situations that illustrate how research in diversified aspects has helped to find solutions to specific pest problems, and how some new and evolving tactics can be practically implemented. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable asset for entomology and plant pathology researchers, students of zoology and plant protection, and readers whose work involves agriculture, horticulture, forestry and other ecosystems |
| Notes |
4.2 Marking and Tracking |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pests -- Control -- Technological innovations
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Insect pests -- Control.
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Insect Control
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2000s
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Insect pests -- Control
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chakravarthy, A. K. (Akshay Kumar), 1955-
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| ISBN |
9789811507946 |
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9811507945 |
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9811507937 |
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9789811507939 |
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9789811507953 |
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9811507953 |
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9789811507960 |
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9811507961 |
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