The role of the precision agriculture in an environmental management system

Abstract

The practical precision agricultural system has a 10 years past since 1992, the date of the first American conference. The standards of the environmental management systems (EMS) have a same short practice time. Both of the two research area were effectively inspired by the fast develop of the information technology. These are the reasons, why we haven Y got enough practical experiences in these research areas. In this study we tried to define the possibility of common introducing of the two systems in a given agricultural Inc. using it’s data and our own measuring. We looked for the frame conditions, the needy resources, the potential risks factor, the economical and natural advantages of the common installing. The soil-information system of the investigated area with 1:10000 scale and the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the produced plants were prepared. The results shows, that the detailed geographical information data complemented by the data of the LCA give enough information to follow the changes in the natural and the cultured environment. Using this data the economical and environmental advantage can be established. It was demonstrated by a calculation of difference between the environmental and economical impacts of ti-aditional (extensive) and on the geographical information data based tilling.