PDA and Handheld GPS Adoption in Precision Cotton Production

Advances in information technologies used in precision agriculture have increased the degree at which spatial variation in cropland and crop performance can be measured. In addition to the information technologies that have been specifically developed to collect precision farming data, a number of other more broad-based information management technologies are playing an increasingly important role in precision farming. Personal digital assistants (PDA) and other handheld computers utilizing the global positioning system (GPS) are being used by farmers to facilitate the handling of precision farming data such as remotely sensed images, yield maps, and soil maps.