An In-Situ Precision Agriculture Framework for Sri Lanka based on Reflectance Spectroscopy
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Precision Agriculture is completely new to the Sri Lankan agricultural community. The objective of this paper is to identify the methods and implementations that can be applied to the agricultural sector of Sri Lanka. While composing the framework with identified implementations the cost, scientific and technological knowledge of the farmers were taken into consideration.
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