Innovations in Smart and Safe Agriculture: Drone Technologies, Path Optimization, and Monitoring Systems
A special issue of AgriEngineering (ISSN 2624-7402).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 July 2026 | Viewed by 9
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Dear Colleagues,
The escalating global population, which is projected to reach 10 billion by 2050, intensifies the critical challenges of water scarcity and food security amidst a changing climate. With the global population on the rise and the limited area of crop land, the need for innovative solutions in agriculture has become more critical than ever. These circumstances necessitate a paradigm shift from conventional agricultural practices to advanced farming techniques, encompassing precision agriculture, digital agriculture, e-agriculture, smart agriculture, and safe agriculture.
With the rapid development of smart agriculture, the use of drones for smart agriculture, combined with path optimization and monitoring systems, provides farmers with powerful tools to optimize their farming practices and offers actionable insights to enhance crop productivity.
This Special Issue, titled ‘Innovations in Smart and Safe Agriculture: Drone Technologies, Path Optimization, and Monitoring Systems’, aims to showcase cutting-edge research on drone technologies and applications in smart agriculture. We invite authors to submit their work on experimental (laboratory, pilot, or actual-scale) and analytical methods. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- AI-based monitoring systems for agriculture;
- Object detection in crop management;
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for smart spraying and monitoring;
- Development and evaluation of variable-rate spraying technologies;
- IoT and edge intelligence applications in agriculture;
- Computer vision for agricultural monitoring and analysis;
- Cybersecurity in smart farming;
- Path optimization in smart farming.
Prof. Dr. Bruno S. Faiçal
Dr. Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart agriculture
- artificial intelligence
- drone technologies
- path optimization
- precision agriculture
- safe agriculture
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