Revolutionizing Crop Management: Integrating UAV Technology for Precision Agriculture
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 1033
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; crop and range management; agricultural information engineering
Interests: sensors and controls; precision agriculture technology; unmanned vehicles
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Dear Colleagues,
Precision agriculture is a modern farming strategy that places emphasis on site-specific crop management to respond to spatial and temporal field variability in crop growth, soils, and environmental conditions. It is made possible through integrating UAV technology for real-time or near-real-time observations and assessments of crop conditions throughout the growing season. UAVs equipped with various sensors allow imaging crops at a canopy level, enabling a fast and convenient field-level quantification and estimation of crop height, stresses, pest occurrence, and crop yield, which enhances the efficiency of decision making and operations compared to conventionally manned field surveys. Based on the above, we initiated a Special Issue in Agronomy on “Revolutionizing Crop Management: Integrating UAV Technology for Precision Agriculture”, which will focus on, among other things, the following:
- The spatial and temporal analysis and zoning of field-level variability with UAVs;
- Combining UAV technology with other methods in precision agriculture;
- Crop sensing with UAV multispectral, hyperspectral, and other sensors;
- Applications of crop management enabled by UAV technology;
- Spray and seeding applications with UAVs.
Dr. Biquan Zhao
Dr. Cengiz Koparan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- UAV remote sensing
- precision farming
- site-specific management
- UAV image processing
- robotic and sensor technology
- crop modeling
- drone applications
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