Advances in Measurement, Instrument, and Sensing Methods for Sustainable Agriculture
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2024) | Viewed by 3780
Special Issue Editors
2. College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310012, China
Interests: biosensing; rapid detection of pathogenic microorganisms; early diagnosis of diseases
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Interests: UAV-based remote sensing; hyperspectral imaging; deep learning; precision agriculture; information fusion; SIF; vegetation indices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable agriculture is agriculture that continuously meets contemporary human needs with regard to the quantity and quality of agricultural products through the management, conservation, and sustainable use of natural resources and through the adaptation of farming systems and technologies without harming the interests of future generations. Additionally, sustainable agriculture maintains and makes rational use of land, water, plant, and animal resources without causing environmental degradation, while being technologically appropriate and feasible, economically viable, and widely accepted by society. Sustainable agriculture is about to shift the paradigm of our current high-input, high-pollution, high-waste agriculture production. To achieve this, modern agriculture needs to treat agricultural information as a factor of agricultural production, and use modern information technology for the visual expression, digital design, and information management of agricultural objects, the environment, and the whole process. Agriculture needs modern technology, especially new measurements, instruments, and sensor methods, more than ever to make it smart. We have seen advances in this field, such as hyperspectral cameras, multispectral cameras, thermal sensors, LiDAR, SAR, etc., mounted on different platforms such as UAVs, mobile vehicles, and towers, and implemented with different analysis methods including graphic methods, computer vision, deep learning, etc. to quantify factors that influence field production. We have seen innovations in measurements and instruments as well, such as handheld devices, ground-penetrating instruments, electronic noses/tongues, biosensors, etc. We have seen the breakthrough in sensing technology that introduced new approaches to agriculture, such as wireless sensor networks, cloud/edge computing, wide-area networks, Internet of Things (IoT), precise satellite navigation/localization, air quality sensors, and soil sensors. To embrace the latest science and technology advances in this field, we are pleased to announce this Special Issue, “Advances in Measurements, Instruments, and sensing methods for Sustainable Agriculture”, which will include all possible topics related to this research field.
For this Special Issue, authors are invited to publish articles focusing on their recent scientific progress and innovations in measurements, instruments, and sensing methods for sustainable agriculture. We welcome novel research, reviews, and opinion papers covering all related topics that promote the application of the latest measurement and sensing techniques, including thermo-acoustic-optical-electromagnetic-based sensors, as well as the latest instruments used in agriculture, such as those used in plant or animal agricultural production, including for agricultural soils, water, pests, controlled environments, structures, and wastes, in addition to those used on the plants and animals themselves. On-farm, post-harvest operations that considered to be a part of the agricultural process (such as drying, storage, logistics, production assessment, trimming, and separation of plant and animal material) will also be covered.
Dr. Lizhou Xu
Dr. Yanchao Zhang
Dr. Wei Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agricultural instrument
- remote sensing
- plant phenomics
- biosensors
- electronic nose/tongue
- electrochemical sensors
- optical sensors
- sustainable agriculture
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