Frontier Studies in Agricultural Greenhouse Equipment and Systems

Dear Colleagues, 

Greenhouse and screenhouse systems are important consumers of material, chemical matters, and energy resources. Based on a precise spatial and time determination of the sheltered ecosystems, the quest for energy and environmental sobriety requires both detailed information and proper control strategies toward the use of more efficient systems and equipment. New methods determining the physical environment of plants and other biotic agents in protected cultivations have been developed, requiring the use of multi-physical models, coupled with plant interactions. These models, coupled with numerical tools, allow forecasting the climatic, physiological, and ecological parameters inside the shelters for all types of external solicitations. Parallelly, important technological advances have been carried out since the last decades regarding the building materials, especially the envelop, the cover, and the screening materials, together with the optimal control of the system.

In this Special Issue, we propose to report and highlight information about the use of new hardware or software technologies, new models and materials, and their combination in greenhouse and screenhouse systems. Expected papers shall deal with original experimental cases combined with the modelling of the involved physical and/or biological phenomena. The state of art concerning specific technologies also matches the scope of this issue.

Dr. Jean-Claude Roy
Dr. Thierry Boulard
Dr. Shumei Zhao
Guest Editors

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