New Horizon in Climate Smart Agriculture
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Agricultural Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2025) | Viewed by 2900
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; agrometeorology; sustainability; sensor synergies; food-water nexus
Interests: imaging spectroscopy; vegetation properties retrieval; FLEX, vegetation fluorescence; optical remote sensing; radiative transfer models; retrieval methods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human-induced climate change is causing frequent agricultural and ecological droughts in various parts of our planet—a new economic challenge for a vast majority of agriculture-dependent societies. Increased atmospheric evaporative demand (AED) and water deficits combined with extreme weather events have intensified these droughts. For mitigation, greener agriculture is required that could align farming with local climates whilst enabling the practice of systematic crop management and climate adaptation. In this regard, early stress detections and agricultural water loss mitigations can be proactive multiactor solutions for soil–water management alongside improving crop water productivity. Our agricultural system needs a proper subsoil water hydrology balance for drought- and heat-tolerant crop varieties. There is tremendous scope for future studies on climate-resilient breeding lines, early stress detection, precision farming, and other such crop-management-related measures that can prepare society for combating the growing agricultural droughts. This issue aims to find a new horizon in climate-smart agriculture that could guide us towards achieving resource-efficient production systems with scalable approaches in the rapidly changing environment.
This Special Issue welcomes high-quality research in the following topics:
- Advanced precision and regenerative agriculture;
- Actual evapotranspiration and crop productivity;
- Drought-resilient crop breeding;
- Scalable remote sensing approaches;
- Crop phenotyping and sensor synergies for early stress detection.
Dr. Zaib Unnisa
Dr. Jochem Verrelst
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drought-resilient breeding lines
- water use efficiency
- water productivity
- phenotyping
- remote sensing
- agricultural droughts
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