Precision Agriculture in Crop Production
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Modeling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 175
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Precision Agriculture (PA) is a modern strategy of farming management. PA is also referred to as Precision Farming or Smart Agriculture because it uses information technology to measure inter- and intra-field variability with the aim of obtaining better quality products, sustainable profitability and higher production efficiency with minimum environmental impact. PA combines several technological advances such as remote sensing, sensors, satellite technology, variable rate application machinery, Internet of Things, geostatistics and Geographical Information Systems. The efficiency of applications of inputs such as irrigation, fertilizer and other agrochemicals, and the levels of sustainability as well as farmers’ profit, depend on applying inputs in the correct place and at the right time.
This Special Issue intends to cover the state of the art and recent progress in different aspects related to the real implementation of Precision Agriculture in a wide range of cropping systems (grain crops, grassland, horticultural crops, fruit trees and aromatic/medicinal crops). All types of manuscripts (original research and reviews) providing new insights in the application and benefits of Precision Agriculture methods and technology are welcome. Articles may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Proximal and remote sensing of soils and crops;
- Internet of Things, Wireless sensor networks;
- Big data analysis for PA purposes;
- Sampling, mapping and geostatistical analysis;
- Precision Irrigation;
- Precision crop protection;
- Delineation of management zones;
- Ag-engineering, robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs);
- Crop models and decision support tools;
- Augmented reality in PA.
Dr. Vasileios Liakos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- spatial–temporal analysis
- remote sensing
- proximal sensing
- variable rate technology
- precision farming
- smart agriculture
