New Technologies Applied in Horticultural Crop Protection
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Protected Culture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 258
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant protection; precision agriculture; sensor
2. College of Agricultural Unmanned System, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: plant protection machinery; precision pesticide application technology; plant protection drone downwash airflow; CFD
Interests: R&D of orchard moving robots; R&D of orchard intelligent spray machinery; research on intelligent perception and obstacle avoidance technology of agricultural machinery; research on intelligent control technology of agricultural machinery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Crop protection is a critical aspect of horticultural crop production and thus new technologies, equipment and methods, including drones, robots and other precision applications, are being developed. These provide various means of applying pesticides and other chemicals, potentially enhancing the efficiency and reducing the dosage of chemicals. The aim of this Special Issue, entitled "New Technologies Applied in Horticulture for Crop Protection", is to present an overview of the new technologies recently developed by researchers in crop protection practice. We welcome the submission of innovative articles that address crop protection in any fruit and vegetable, as well as those that present reliable experiments. This is not limited to the application of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, but includes all types of plant protection products (PPPs). In addition, the scope of this Special Issue is not limited to unmanned aerial spraying systems (UASSs) and the use of remote sensing and computer vision (CV) in crop protection. However, the development of new machines and pure mathematical methods are beyond the scope of this Special Issue.
Dr. Zhichong Wang
Dr. Peng Qi
Dr. Xianping Guan
Dr. Zhan Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant protection
- applied agriculutre
- precision agriculture
- UASS
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