Chapter 1 A history of precision agriculture / David Franzen and David Mulla -- chapter 2. Sensing technology for precision crop farming / Marvin L. Stone and William R. Raun -- chapter 3. Data processing and utilization in precision agriculture / Chunjiang Zhao, Liping Chen, Guijun Yang, and Xiaoyu Song -- chapter 4. Control of precision agriculture production / Qin Zhang -- chapter 5. Intelligent agricultural machinery and field robots / Shufeng Han, Brian L. Steward, and Lie Tang -- chapter 6. Precision agriculture in large-scale mechanized farming / Chenghai Yang, Ruixiu Sui, and Won Suk Lee -- chapter 7. A systems approach to community-based precision agriculture / Sakae Shibusawa -- chapter 8. Precision agriculture in china: sensing technology and application / Hong Sun and Minzan Li -- chapter 9. Good agricultural practices, quality, traceability, and precision agriculture / Josse De Baerdemaeker and Wouter Saeys -- chapter 10. State of the art and future requirements / Hermann Auernhammer and Markus Demmel.