Precision Agriculture and Crop Models for Climate Change Adaptation
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 783
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agrometeorology; crop modeling; climate projections; stress analysis; climate adaptation
Interests: precision agriculture; remote sensing; crop monitoring; digital farming
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is reshaping agriculture: rising temperatures, erratic extremes, shifting habitats, tightening water budgets, and accelerating soil erosion are all converging while a growing population demands not only more food, but higher nutritional quality and safety. At the same time, advances in crop modeling and precision agriculture enable site-specific, real-time, and anticipatory management—turning data into resilient decisions.
This Special Issue invites studies that—whether rooted in field or laboratory experiments or in crop modeling—quantify climate-related risk and design actionable adaptation/mitigation strategies. These strategies can range from plot and farm to national, continental, or even global levels, and across time horizons from historical baselines through to near-term or end-century projections. This Special Issue will explore precision farming solutions where the data and experience provided can contribute to adapting to the challenges of climate change.
We welcome contributions from across the field that promote climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture. This includes studies that integrate in situ measurements, as well as remote/proximal sensing and management data to improve yield, quality, and nutritional traits, stability, resource use efficiency (water, plant nutrition, and energy), and soil health.
Dr. Katalin Somfalvi-Tóth
Prof. Dr. Gábor Milics
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- precision agriculture
- crop models
- adaptation
- soil conservation
- data-based agriculture
- phenology
- crop yield
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