The survey ran on the ISPA web platform over the months of April and May 2018. A four steps development program was agreed upon, consisting of: 1) a survey for key elements 2) the elaboration of kernel definitions 3) a Codigital consultation and 4) approval by the ISPA Board of Directors. ISPA then President Nicolas Tremblay, from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, teamed up with Secretary of the time Viacheslav Adamchuk from McGill University and ISPA member Alex Escolà from Lleida University. Since then, other components of variability and other sectors of agriculture related to the concept in a duly manner.įrom the beginning, the ISPA Board of directors wanted the definition process to tap into the working force of ISPA members and engage them to the highest possible degree.
The Precision Agriculture concept emerged in the early ''90s and was then totally focused on the study and management of spatial variability in crop production. As the sole international scientific society completely devoted to Precision Agriculture, the ISPA could not avoid the need to provide clarity and guidance on this important concept. A non-exhaustive list of definitions assembled by the Research Group in AgroICT & Precision Agriculture reported 27 different contributions from the very beginning of PA to date. There was clearly a need to clarify what Precision Agriculture really is. This Precision Agriculture (PA) definition has recently been recognized by the Board of directors as the official definition of the International Society for Precision Agriculture (ISPA).
‘Precision Agriculture is a management strategy that gathers, processes and analyzes temporal, spatial and individual data and combines it with other information to support management decisions according to estimated variability for improved resource use efficiency, productivity, quality, profitability and sustainability of agricultural production.’
The International Society of Precision Agriculture ( ) adopted the following definition of precision agriculture in 2019:
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