Information and Communication Technologies for Improving Monitoring and Management Schemes in Agricultural Environments

Dear Colleagues,

In last two decades, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with wireless sensors has improved a great deal and has been widely used in many fields, including in the improvement of living standards and activities, as well as environmental monitoring and management. Current ecosystem monitoring schemes of agricultural environments could profit immensely from ICT by extending our ability to develop, introduce and adopt innovative agricultural technologies and collaborate with research and stakeholders for the improvement of agricultural practices and environments. Accordingly, ICTs in agriculture can help stakeholders to secure healthy agricultural environments and increase irrigation efficiency, which would result in increased production efficiency and sustainability, not to mention secure food quality by providing information and knowledge sharing. Specific monitoring infrastructural changes can include things like automatic monitoring devices, indigenous wireless sensor nodes and gateways in agricultural networks. ICTs also provide real time monitoring data information such as water quality and quantity to stakeholders through mobile smart phone applications, sharing such data in real time can no doubt reduce agricultural pollution events a great deal. Recently, green ICTs have been discussed in reducing energy consumption that may be considered as a novel innovation for environmental sustainability. The proposed Special Issue will showcase recent studies in the field of developments and applications of green ICTs or ICTs in agricultural environmental monitoring and management, as well as assessments.

Prof. Dr. Yu-Pin Lin
Prof. Dr. Tsun-Kuo Chang
Prof. Dr. Chihho Fan
Guest Editors

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