Unmanned Aerial Systems in Precision Agriculture
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2026 | Viewed by 1095
Special Issue Editors
Interests: precision agriculture; remote sensing; sensor networks; IoT; digital farming; decision support systems; agricultural engineering; agricultural automations
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Interests: agricultural robotics; agricultural engineering; digital agriculture; artificial intelligence; operation managment; smart farming
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decades, the management of agricultural fields has advanced significantly with the emergence of a new management concept called Precision Agriculture (PA). With the development and utilization of sensing systems for agricultural operations, farmers and farm managers are now able to take informed decisions based on real data from the field. Within the framework of applying PA, there is a growing interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), as they provide high potential to vastly promote remote sensing and targeted applications in agricultural environments. With the advanced UAS solutions that are now available for agricultural use, efficient and effective mapping and monitoring of field, crop, and soil status as well as implementation of targeted applications in variable rates are possible bringing agriculture towards the new aera of digitalization.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish research papers, as well as review articles addressing recent advances in unmanned aerial systems and processes in Precision Agriculture. Original, high-quality contributions that have not yet been published and that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Indicatively, the following research topics related to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in agriculture may be considered for publication in this Special Issue:
- Remote sensing;
- Computer vision;
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning for sensor data analysis;
- UAV sensing systems;
- UAV edge computing applications;
- Sensors fusion for agricultural applications;
- ICT applications;
- SLAM- Simultaneous localization and mapping;
- Flight planning;
- Field, crop and soil properties monitoring and mapping;
- UAV-enabled variable rate applications
Dr. Aristotelis C. Tagarakis
Dr. Dimitrios Kateris
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- computer vision
- UAV
- artificial intelligence for data analysis
- sensors fusion for agricultural applications
- simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
- flight planning
- field, crop and soil properties monitoring and mapping
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