Spectroscopic Analysis of Plants and Vegetation
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 December 2021) | Viewed by 36522
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Interests: agronomic applications of earth observation; remote sensing; digital image processing; geoinformatics; spectroscopy; precision agriculture; UAV; crops; irrigation; soil
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Interests: remote sensing; multiscale fusion robotic agriculture; sensor networks; robotics; development of cognitive abilities; fusion of global and local cognition
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent technological advances in sensor and platform technology have led towards the penetration of spectroscopy into new fields of application. In agricultural production, spectroscopy is an emerging field that proves novel applications every day. Spectrometers of higher spectral accuracy and light enough to be carried by commercial UAVs are being used to detect subtle changes in reflectance of plant parts or vegetation canopy. Novel data analysis techniques are being introduced to improve the accuracy and efficiency of the collected spectra, moving towards operational real-time applications.
This special issue aims to bring together recent research and developments concerning spectroscopic analysis of plants and vegetation. Submissions on the following topics are invited (but not limited to), as long as they present innovative methods and approaches, or novel applications of existing tools on spectroscopy of plants and vegetation:
- Point spectroscopy
- Imaging spectroscopy
- Satellite hyperspectral imaging
- Airborne hyperspectral cameras (UAV)
- Spectroscopy of crop health status determination
- Spectroscopy for crop phenotyping, germination, emergence and determination of the different growth stages of crops
- Spectroscopy for detection of microorganism and pest management
- Multisensor systems, sensor fusion
- Non-destructive plant and vegetation spectroscopy
- Yield estimation and prediction
- Detection and identification of crops and weeds
- Spectra analysis
- Machine learning and emerging algorithms
- Cloud computing
- Real time processing
- On-board processing
- Multiple source data fusion
- Hyperspectral data cubes
- Precision agriculture applications
- Monitoring water use and irrigation requirements
- Crop damage assessment (frost, droughts, hail)
- Site-specific applications and management of agricultural resources
- Plant phenotyping
Prof. Dimitrios Moshou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Spectroscopic information acquisition
- Spectral data processing
- Spectroscopy in agriculture
- Hyperspectral
- Chemometrics
- Bioinformatics
- Precision agriculture
- Phenotyping
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