Agroecometry: a toolbox for the design of virtual agriculture
Abstract
Agriculture has rarely been an area of great attraction for technological
and scientific innovations. Nevertheless, as there is evidently a risk of
a non-sustainable management of agroecosystems, it is necessary to
use better the technological opportunities. One of these oportunities is
to use the advances in of high-yield computation (and in parallel)
mathematical modeling in order to unify the information data bases
(Smith et al., 2002), that arise in areas as diverse as the study of
natural resources, economics, and sociology, or rural revelopment,
aiming them towards a common purpose. The objective of this study
was to answer one specific question: Is there a way to measure the
structural patterns of the physical, chemical, and biological systems
as well as the economic and social structural patterns with one and the
same variable, and visualize their competitive contribution to the
sustainability of an agroecosystem? We have constructed the
mathematical bases and those of computer simulation to answer the
aforementioned questions and to introduce a new discipline to
agricultural sciences, whose theoretic-methodological frame seems
promising in the field of unification of the extensive, multifaceted
information. This new discipline which we call Agroecometry, has as
its fundamental objetive to construct metric spaces effective for
agricultural sciences, and visualize the performance of an
agroecosystem in all its the richness its in the frame of virtual model.
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