Advanced Sensing Technologies for Precision Agriculture
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 5760
Special Issue Editors
2. Departamento de Producción Agrícola, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: aquaculture; environmental monitoring; precision agriculture; water quality; wireless sensor networks; chemical sensors; physical sensors; pollution monitoring
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Interests: agricultural crops; propagation; agroenergy; precision agriculture; remote sensing; irrigation and fertilization efficiency; turfgrass sustainability; vegetation indices; canopy temperature; RGB image processing and derived agronomical parameters
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The technological revolution of the agriculture sector is boosting the development of different applications, prototypes, and systems to increase the efficiency of the sector. Several solutions have been proposed, most of them addressing a single aspect of agriculture. The vast majority of these solutions are integrated under the precision agriculture concept and allow the monitoring and management of scarce resources. Nonetheless, considering the expected restrictions in farms, advanced systems are needed that help farmers to manage their orchards.
The monitorization of soil and crops to ensure and optimize the use of resources (water, fertilizer, and biostimulants, among others) in just one aspect of precision agriculture. Identifying weed plants to optimize the use of phytosanitary products, the identification of stress in plants, or the monitorization of fruits to identify the best moment to harvest are other relevant issues. The most advanced solutions can blend several of the aforementioned aspects or include new ones and combine different technologies such as sensor networks, drones or robot tractor, among others.
Although the application of monitoring systems in the orchards is one of the most relevant areas of precision agriculture, smart machinery such as robot tractors or programmed drones can be part of the solutions. The inclusion of novel concepts as the Internet of Things and blockchain might endow new functionalities and higher impact on the future precision farming systems.
The abovementioned are only some examples of multiple areas within the scope of this Special Issue “Advanced Sensing Technologies for Precision Agriculture”. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Internet of Things (IoT) for agriculture
- Smart applications for crops monitoring and management
- Unmanned aerial vehicles for agriculture
- Remote sensing data and water irrigation scheduling
- Remote sensing data and quantification of crop production
- Sensors for measuring crop quality
- Sensing technologies for pest management in fields
- Sensor network deployment for smart agriculture
- Combination of remote sensing with wireless sensor networks for enhanced precision agriculture
- Data fusion for orchard monitoring
- Artificial Intelligence for decision making in agriculture
Dr. Lorena Parra
Dr. Pedro V. Mauri
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agriculture
- WSN
- orchard
- remote sensing
- crop monitoring
- fruit monitoring
- soil monitoring
- sensors
- image processing
- rural areas
- deployment
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