Spatial-temporal agricultural information system to optimize pesticide usage by creating a buffer-zone

The estimation of agriculture yields is a challenging and suitable task for every farmer. In the world economy, agriculture sector plays a big role. In most countries worldwide, their populations most likely above seventy percent practice and depend on agriculture produces for feed their lives and earning incomes. Today, farmers do not only produce yields but also generate huge amounts of agricultural data. This data can be collected, stored and analyzed for useful information. In an attempt to increase agriculture produce, farmers tend to apply excessive pesticides. This has led to spray drift problem whenever liquid sprays are applied and hence causing harm to adjacent crops and other non-target areas. A lot of research has been carried done to mitigate the problem of pesticide spray drift by erosion. However, research has been carried out on pesticide drift by agents such as wind, boom height, driving speed but not to the extreme. Therefore, our research focuses on creating a buffer zone as measure to counter rampant spray drift during pesticide application. In this research, a GIS model was used to capture spray area (farm) points. The spray drift distance that was obtained using the mentioned agents above, was appended to these geographic points of the farm to create a buffer zone area. This thus can be essential for optimizing pesticide usage and better management.