Sensors and Digital Technologies for Smart Agriculture
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 1476
Special Issue Editor
Interests: automation and electronics in agriculture; sensors; wireless sensor networks; precision agriculture; artificial intelligence; machine learning; smart sensors; edge computing and reinforcement learning; smart agriculture; Internet of Things; embedded intelligence; technology governance; Agriculture 4.0
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability is defined as the process of maintaining the vital changes in a balanced environment, where the exploitation of resources is presumed for humanitarian needs and aspirations. In this regard, institutional changes, the orientation of technological development and the direction of public and private investments must all be in harmony and advance current and future potential to meet human needs. Sustainability, based on the principles of Systems Thinking, is usually defined through the three interconnected pillars of the environment, economics, and society, with sub-domains of sustainable development considering political, cultural, and technological aspects.
We are pleased to invite you to this Special Issue, where we will try to set the proper roadmap of agricultural digitalization and avoid many wrong efforts realised in the business intelligence sector.
Knowledge, the principal production input applied through a digitized biosphere, is a present stage necessity for fast deployment of research new results in a fast-changing bio-technological environment. Smart farming is a development that emphasizes the use of information and communication technology in the cyber–physical, deep-knowledge-based farm management cycle. The sustainable development of agriculture to meet future vital needs of humanity has been recognized as a foremost priority by all political parties and governments around the world. To avoid any contradiction between sustainability and development, all the domains (mentioned previously) must be well sited in the planning stage.
All in all, digitalization depends on a successful infrastructure design to provide an effective data aggregation tool while the end results rest on system intelligence and wisdom that is contingent upon cropping knowledge evolution casting an ever-evolving eco-system.
The world agriculture is undergoing an irreversible transformation due to climate change worsening resource supplies while green production intensification is a necessity. It is empowered by wireless Internet of Things applications, becoming smarter via the collection of data and intelligent information retrieval.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include the following:
- Smart sensors and other devices, from Earth to space (IOT), produce big data that provide unparalleled knowledge mediated decision-making mechanisms, improving all sustainability domains.
- Big Data is expected to have a great impact on smart farming and the whole supply chain.
- Technology such as:
a. Infrastructure open hardware and software platforms;
b. Communications and data standards, security and data categorization as private or open (sharing), in a hypermarket environment;
c. Farm-level competent hardware and knowledge applications
Prof. Dr. Nick Sigrimis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sensor
- digital agriculture
