Application of Smart Technologies in Orchard Management
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 91
Special Issue Editors
Interests: precision agriculture; UAV; crop coefficient; irrigation management; crop management
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Interests: mechanical harvest; breeding and clonal selection of new varieties; abiotic stress; fruit growth; ripening indexes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From several years the role of the technology applied to the agriculture led to promising results. In fact, the smart technologies help the optimization of the use of the input such as water and fertilizers for the increasing sustainability of the orchard. In a contest of climate change, it is important to develop and test smart technology solutions for increasing of the production. In addition, IoT-enabled sensor networks and aerial drones generate high-resolution spatial-temporal data, empowering growers with actionable insights for proactive management.
This Special Issue focuses on the role that smart technology in the production of high-quality food and continuously over time. For this reason, it welcomes highly quality studies includes, but is not limited to the follow scope:
- Computer vision for fruit detection and yield estimation;
- AI-driven microclimate and soil health monitoring systems;
- IoT-based pest and disease monitoring models;
- AI-optimized irrigation and nutrient delivery systems;
- scalable digital for orchard management.
Dr. Alessandra Vinci
Dr. Daniela Farinelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- irrigation
- UAV
- irrigation systems
- yield
- IoT
- precision agriculture
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