Smart Sensor-Based Systems for Crop Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Modern agricultural systems face increasingly complex challenges, including climate variability, population growth, resource depletion, and food security concerns. Precision agriculture systems that employ real-time crop physiology monitoring for the control of crop growth status and health conditions offer transformative potential, integrating direct plant feedback with smart control systems. Such technologies are being integrated into applications that support precision irrigation management, early crop stress detection, automated nutrient delivery, resource optimization, and sustainable crop production, primarily through smart sensor-based systems that can assess crop status.

This Special Issue invites original research articles, reviews, and perspectives that provide valuable insights into the applications of crop physiology monitoring technologies in precision agriculture, focusing on systems that utilize direct plant feedback for crop growth optimization and health condition assessment.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Plant physiology status sensors for real-time crop monitoring and automated control;
• Sensor-driven irrigation and nutrient management based on plant physiological status;
• Plant stress detection and early warning systems that use crop physiology monitoring;
• Microcontroller-based systems for crop condition monitoring;
• Machine learning algorithms for plant physiological status data interpretation;
• Decision support systems for comprehensive crop growth status assessment;
• Edge computing solutions for real-time plant physiology status processing and control.

Dr. Xanthoula Eirini Pantazi
Guest Editor

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