AGRICULTURE AND SATELLITES – THINK PIECE
February 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLFARMING may be becoming increasingly high-tech, but somehow, it still seems rather odd to couple digging potatoes with launching shiny satellites into orbit around the Earth. But, in fact - as many British farmers well know - space technology has offered useful services to agriculture and will increasingly do so in the future.It's an expensive business firing a functional satellite into space, and so not only are most European efforts coordinated via the European Space Agency (ESA), but they are designed with maximising commercial return very much ...
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