African Journal of
Agricultural Research

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Agric. Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1991-637X
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJAR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 6854

Full Length Research Paper

Moving beyond manual software-supported precision irrigation to human-supervised adaptive automation

Peter George Raeth
  • Peter George Raeth
  • Independent Consultant in Computational Science and Distributed Systems, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA
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  •  Received: 03 September 2020
  •  Accepted: 15 October 2020
  •  Published: 30 November 2020

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