Kubota to enhance precision farming for higher crop yields in Japan

Base stations will augment GPS, slashing errors to just 3cm

20241031N Kubota

Driverless tractors need precise positioning data with errors as low as 3 cm in order to maximize crop yields. (Kubota)

NARUSHI NAKAI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Farm machinery builder Kubota looks to increase harvest yields in Japan by installing base stations that improve the precision of positioning data used by its automated agricultural equipment.

The Global Positioning System is conventionally used for positioning and guiding such agricultural machinery. But with deviations of about 10 centimeters, GPS alone is unsuitable for precision farming.

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