Remote Sensing for Future Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture: Part II
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 3111
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Interests: remote sensing; ICT; IoT; open data; big data; agriculture; rural development; semantic data; artificial intelligence
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Interests: earth observations; data cube; sustainable development; GEO/GEOSS; environmental sciences
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Remote Sensing, titled “Remote Sensing for Future Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture”. There are several reasons behind this Special Issue. Agriculture is a vital economic sector producing food, agro-industrial feedstock, and energy and providing environmental services through managing soil, water, air, and biodiversity holistically. The agri-food chain involves multiple actors and stakeholders that produce and provide food and agricultural commodities to consumers. In addition to farmers, there are farm suppliers, processors, transporters and market intermediaries. These actors make the agri-food chain efficient. Current agriculture is under pressure to produce high-quality products with fewer inputs and in smaller areas.
In order to provide solutions to all complex problems related to the agri-food chain, we need to better understand all processes and build an interoperable knowledge management system for each agriculture sector. Data are a key part of such knowledge management systems, including remote sensing data. The intention of this Special Issue is to collect ideas on how remote sensing and data derived from remote sensing can help future knowledge management for global food security and better sustainability of agriculture production in varying climatic conditions, and how remote sensing can support the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal.
There are new systems for Earth monitoring; a number of delivery platforms have been developed, and new technologies such as artificial intelligence are now starting to be used. Remote sensing can bring data and knowledge from the global scale to provide global monitoring, monitor production on a country or regional level, and monitor field variability. In order to optimally use remote sensing for agriculture, capacity building and training people will become a key part of the entire process.
As the Special Issue looks for innovative methods of applying remote sensing in agriculture at all scales, many different aspects have to be addressed. We hope you find the topic of this Special Issue interesting, and we look forward to your research contributions.
Dr. Karel Charvat
Dr. Gregory Giuliani
Dr. Tomas Mildorf
Dr. Sarka Horakova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- satellites
- knowledge management
- agriculture
- food security
- sustainability
- biodiversity
- artificial intelligence
- cloud computing
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