Data-Driven Fields: AI and Unmanned Sensing Technologies in Agricultural Optimization

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue invites cutting-edge research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and sensor technology to accelerate the transition to digital, precise, and intelligent agriculture. High-resolution remote sensing, combined with deep learning and emerging foundation/generative models, is reshaping how we scout fields, diagnose crop stress, guide variable-rate inputs, and forecast yield. We particularly welcome studies that reduce data-acquisition costs through synthetic data and domain adaptation, fuse multi-modal sources (satellite, UAV, robot in-situ/IoT, agronomic text), and operationalize real-time decision support for irrigation, fertilization, and pest/disease management. Contributions that integrate physical knowledge with data-driven models, e.g., digital twins of fields and greenhouse, are encouraged.

This Special Issue focuses on, but is not limited to, agricultural engineering in the following areas:

• Multi-modal data fusion;
• Intelligent monitoring and field robotics;
• Crop disease and pest detection using deep learning and generated data;
• Sensors and detection technologies for precision agriculture;
• Muti-scale remote sensing and artificial intelligence in agriculture;
• Intelligent crop monitoring and management systems;
• Combination of physical knowledge with data-driven models in the agricultural digital twin systems;
• Real-time decision-making systems for digital agriculture.

Dr. Lang Qiao
Dr. Dehua Gao
Dr. Jiang Chen
Guest Editors

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