An introduction to precision management
January 28, 2023
This summary from the 2006 PACE Turfgrass Research Seminar on precision turfgrass management (PTM) reveals that the basics of PTM implementation have not advanced much in the past 17 years. The persistent barrier to adoption of many PTM techniques is data processing. It is easy to acquire mountains of data from various sensors, but it has been difficult to make practical sense and application of the data.
The use of GPS (global positioning systems) and GIS (geographic information systems), in…