This article considers the tremendous potential for satellite remote sensing information delivered via mobile digital applications to improve decision making in emerging agricultural economies. Earth observations have been available for use in weather and other models to support decision making since the late 1970s, with the launch of the advanced very-high-resolution radiometer and the Landsat sensors. Despite early recognition of the potential for satellite remote sensing to transform farm-level decision making, information from satellite data is still not widely used by farmers day to day except in highly mechanized precision agricultural systems that represent a very small minority of farmers globally.

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卫星遥感数据在新兴农业经济中的决策支持：卫星数据如何改变农业决策[观点]

本文认为，通过移动数字应用交付的卫星遥感信息具有巨大的潜力，可以改善新兴农业经济体的决策。自1970年代末以来，随着先进的超高分辨率辐射计和Landsat传感器的推出，地球观测已可用于天气和其他模型以支持决策。尽管人们早已认识到卫星遥感技术可以改变农场一级的决策的可能性，但是除了在代表全球少数农民的高度机械化的精密农业系统中，卫星数据的信息仍未被农民每天广泛使用。