Novel Studies in High-Performance and Smart Plant Protection Products Application—3rd Edition
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 924
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pesticide application technology; unmanned aerial spraying system (UASS); atomization; droplet; spray deposition; spray drift
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the last 70 years, with the widespread use of plant protection products (PPPs), food quality and human life expectancy have been vastly improved. At the same time, considerable attention has been paid to environmental protection, and especially to the minimisation of PPP pollution in water, with emphasis on minimising spray drift from the treated areas. Both manual and high-efficiency sprayers, such as knapsack sprayers, spray guns, boom sprayers, air-blast sprayers, manned fixed-wing aircrafts, manned helicopters, and so on, have been widely applied in different scenarios worldwide. Since the beginning of this decade, agricultural unmanned aerial spraying systems (UASSs) for plant protection, with high flexibility and mobility, as well as low acquisition and maintenance costs, have rapidly been gaining traction as a new means of PPP application, especially in China and other Asian countries. In addition, both aerial and ground plant protection machines are used for unmanned, precise, and high-performance standardisation and informationisation. More and more frontier technologies, such as multispectral/hyperspectral imaging technology, AI, deep learning, IoT, lasers, high-speed data transmission, robots, nano-pesticides, etc., have been proposed and applied, with fewer PPPs being lost in the environment. More research is needed for these new technologies to be fully incorporated to minimise agrochemical use and improve the timing of applications.
In this Special Issue, we aim to focus on any novel studies pertaining to high-performance, smart PPP utilisation, including theory, algorithms, models, simulations, systems, equipment, technologies, and evaluation methods. Both research and review articles are welcome.
Dr. Changling Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart PPP application
- atomization
- spray deposition
- spray drift
- control efficacy
- boom sprayer
- air-blast sprayer
- manned agricultural aircraft
- unmanned aerial spraying system (UASS)
- robot sprayer
- frontier technologies
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