Remote Sensing Assessment of Soil and Crop Health Under Varying Agronomic Practices
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GIS (Geographic Information Systems); remote sensing; positioning and navigation; digital cartography; precision agriculture
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: soil health; agronomy; fertilization; plant physiology; agrochemistry; GIS
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on the transformative role of remote sensing (RS) in evaluating the impact of diverse agrotechnical practices on soil and crop health. Traditional field sampling is costly and spatially limited, whereas advanced RS, using satellites, UAVs, and sensors such as hyperspectral sensors and LiDAR, enables non-invasive monitoring at scale.
The aim of this Special Issue is to consolidate research that quantifies how practices such as conservation tillage, cover cropping, and fertilization affect key indicators such as soil organic carbon, moisture, crop nutrient status, and water stress. We seek original research, review articles, and methodological papers and are particularly interested in submissions utilizing cutting-edge approaches such as AI/machine learning, sensor fusion, and time-series analysis. Contributions that present rigorous validation studies that compare RS data with ground-truth measurements across various scales are also welcome.
Dr. Dorijan Radočaj
Guest Editor
Dr. Lucija Galić
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- soil health
- Earth observation
- precision agriculture
- digital agriculture
- sustainable agriculture
- crop health monitoring
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