Remote Sensing Applications for Crop Phenotyping and Modelling
A special issue of Crops (ISSN 2673-7655).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 271
Editors
Interests: remote sensing; vegetation phenology; vegetation indices; crop monitoring; time series analysis; climate change
Interests: geography; GIS; predictive modeling; remote sensing; environmental monitoring
Interests: crop phenomics; remote sensing; artificial intelligence
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing has become an essential tool for monitoring crop growth and supporting agricultural modelling at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The use of satellite, airborne, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and ground-based fixed-sensor observations enables the characterisation of the biophysical, biochemical, and phenological variables of crops under diverse management and environmental conditions.
This Special Issue, “Remote Sensing Applications for Crop Phenotyping and Modelling”, will focus on the use of remote sensing to analyse crop growth dynamics, yield estimation, phenological development, and stress detection across different cropping systems and environments. The scope includes studies based on single- or multi-sensor observations, empirical or model-based approaches, the integration of remote sensing data with crop growth models, and the use of artificial intelligence for crop phenotyping.
We welcome original research articles, reviews, and applied case studies addressing methodological applications, regional or operational implementations, precision agriculture practices, and assessments of climate and environmental impacts on crops, with an emphasis on approaches that support sustainable and data-driven agricultural decision-making.
Dr. Jose A. Caparros-Santiago
Dr. Lorenzo Quesada-Ruiz
Dr. Shichao Jin
Guest Editors
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Crops is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- crop growth modelling
- crop monitoring
- vegetation indices
- time series analysis
- agricultural management
- Earth observation
- precision agriculture
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