GIS Support for Climate-Smart Agriculture
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2021) | Viewed by 1241
Special Issue Editors
Interests: precision agriculture; climate change; remote sensing; GIS; crop modelling; grasslands; pastures
Interests: GIS; remote sensing; environmental and agricultural applications; landscape dynamics; geostatistics; precision agriculture; crop modelling; climate change impacts.
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) become very useful tools in agriculture to store and handle in-field variability. They support farmers as they apply appropriate management of resources and accurate adoption of agricultural practices in the field. This determines an increase of crop production and reduction of farm operational costs (e.g., the site-specific application of phytosanitary products and fertilizers), ensuring an agricultural sustainability under climate change scenarios. The objective of the “GIS Support for Climate-Smart Agriculture” Special Issue of the journal Agronomy is to collect original research articles and review papers concerning the use of GIS to support agro-management practices for an improved agriculture sustainability, providing scientific-based information to support the adoption of specific adaptation and mitigation strategies under a changin climate. We encourage authors to submit articles about innovative research or case studies analysis which explore the use of GIS as smart-precision farming techniques to reduce external inputs or increase their effectiveness regarding spatial crop monitoring and production (intra- and inter-crop variability). We also encourage authors to present new approaches for smart agricultural techniques and to develop strategies (or products) able to contribute to climate change mitigation and preserving agricultural sustainability, food security, and farmers’ income.
Dr. Camilla Dibari
Dr. Sergi Costafreda-Aumedes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Climate-smart agriculture
- GIS applications in agriculture
- Climate change
- Precision agriculture
- Sustainability
