Satellite based Technologies as Key Enablers for Sustainable Ict-based Agricultural Production Systems

This paper describes and stretches the perspective of achieving increasing agricultural productions system's sustainability through the usage of advanced information and communication technologies supported by satellite based navigation. Such a direction of development implies a renewed focus on the usage of these advanced technologies and increase the demand for a system approach that integrates advanced management tools (for planning, on-line coordination, route planning, mission planning, etc.) able to cope with the inherent dynamic nature of agricultural production systems. Selected key solution domains for enhanced production efficiency and decreased environmental degradation that involve satellite-based navigation are presented and discussed.