Special Issue "Laser in Agriculture"
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2023 | Viewed by 3383
Special Issue Editor
Interests: optical metrology; biospeckle laser; agricultural engineering; sensors; image analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of lasers as a tool of measurement and assistance has been a valuable asset within broad areas of knowledge such as medicine, industry, agriculture, and the military. Material cutting is also an active area of their application, for instance, in medicine and in industry. In agriculture, lasers can be used as sensors, for instance, to assist land levelling and the identification of the height of crops.
With broad potential applications as sensors, lasers can also be used to measure small changes in biological material through dynamic laser speckle, or biospeckle laser (BSL). The evaluation of seed viability and vigour or the identification of bruising in fruits and potatoes are some examples of biospeckle laser usage.
Similarly, the adoption of BSL to determine the bruising or maturity of fruits and the growth of roots in tissue cultures is often found in the literature. Other applications, such as the identification and control of parasites in wastewater from agricultural processes, can also be pointed out as a reliable use of biospeckle laser.
Besides interferometric techniques, it is possible to envision the application of a laser sheet (or line) to create a profile of samples and soil within a dedicated and commercial laser scanner or similar equipment developed in universities, as well as its use as a stimulating light to activate seed germination and other biological samples. Therefore, the influence of lasers in different wavelengths must be considered throughout research and tuned according to the envisioned applications.
This Special Issue of Agriculture welcomes novel works regarding the use of lasers in agriculture, without any restrictions of their applications.
Prof. Dr. Roberto Alves Braga Júnior
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lasers in agriculture
- optical metrology
- land levelling
- dynamic laser speckle
- seed germination stimulus
- bruising
- maturation in fruits
- laser scanning
