Artificial Intelligence in Horticulture Production

Dear Colleagues,

Today, the agricultural sector faces huge challenges due to local and global ecological and political factors. However, to feed a growing world population, new approaches are needed to optimize resource allocation for precision agriculture, predictable production planning to ensure food security, and autonomous solutions for harvesting, processing and marketing of agricultural products. In this context, data-driven AI offers a wide range of application areas such as crop monitoring to detect diseases, nutrient deficiencies, pests, yield prediction, and price prediction. The papers in this Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence in Horticulture Production” will focus on basic and applied research targeting AI in all stages of agriculture. This Special Issue will cover a number of topics of interest, including but not limited to:

• AI for smart farming and agriculture;
• AI-assisted automation;
• AI-assisted real-time IoT data analytics;
• Computer vision in agriculture;
• Spatial AI-based agricultural robotics;
• AI-based soil and plant nutrient analysis;
• AI-based crop monitoring;
• AI-assisted intelligent irrigation for agriculture;
• AI-assisted phenotyping and genotyping;
• AI-assisted livestock health monitoring;
• AI in food supply chain;
• AI-assisted predictive analytics for agriculture;
• DL for managing security in IoT data processing;
• DL for IoT attack detection and prevention.

Dr. Md Parvez Islam
Prof. Dr. Kenji Hatou
Dr. Xudong Sun
Guest Editors

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