Unmanned Farms in Smart Agriculture—2nd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 115
Special Issue Editors
Interests: onboard sensor design; sensor fusion; signal/image processing; agriculture; controlling system; navigation and position/orientation; autonomous take-off and landing
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Interests: intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment; unmanned farm; agricultural robots; agricultural artificial intelligence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change is emerging—information technology, biotechnology, new materials technology and new energy technology have been widely integrated into the field of agriculture, giving rise to a large number of strategic new industries, advanced manufacturing of agricultural equipment, te agricultural Internet of Things, agricultural data and agricultural robotics, and other technologies gradually applied to various areas of agricultural production. Smart agriculture has also shown a strong momentum of development and unmanned farms have become an important way to achieve smart development in agriculture. Unmanned farms are supported by biotechnology, intelligent farm machinery, and information technology. Biotechnology provides a variety of cultivation patterns adapted to mechanized operations for unmanned farms, intelligent farm machinery provides equipment support for automated operations of unmanned farms, and information technology provides support for precise positioning, data transmission, and the intelligent management of unmanned farms for operation by farm machinery.
Previously, we successfully published a Special Issue entitled “Unmanned Farms in Smart Agriculture”, and we now propose a second edition covering a broader range of applications.
In this Special Issue, we aim to exchange knowledge on any aspect related to unmanned farms in smart agriculture, thus promoting the rapid development of agricultural mechanization and intelligence, and facilitating the construction of unmanned farms in a period of rapid development.
Prof. Dr. Zhiyan Zhou
Prof. Dr. Lian Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart agriculture
- unmanned farms
- intelligent farm machinery
- automatic navigation
- precision operation
- unmanned farm
- information technology
- agricultural internet of things
- smart management
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