ABSTRACT
Nutrition management and automation plays an important role in the whole agriculture automation system. In this chapter, we will introduce nutrition management and automation in the following three aspects: (1) nutrition acquisition methods and instruments relating to crop growing information, soil information, satellite remote sensing system, aerial photography remote sensing system, radar, and lidar systems; (2) nutrition management relating to sampling methods and managements, nutrition disputation map based on geographic information system (GIS), and nutrition automation systems; and (3) nutrition control and automation systems with several specic examples in agriculture.
