New Trends in Smart Horticulture

Dear Colleagues,

The rapid advancements in technology are reshaping horticultural practices, enabling more efficient, sustainable, and data-driven crop management. This Special Issue, New Trends in Smart Horticulture, aims to highlight cutting-edge research and innovations that integrate precision agriculture, artificial intelligence, remote sensing, high-throughput phenotyping (HTP), automation, and robotics into horticultural systems.

We welcome contributions addressing topics such as smart sensors for plant and soil monitoring, UAV and satellite-based imaging for crop analysis, AI-driven decision-making tools, and novel approaches to controlled-environment agriculture. Additionally, studies exploring IoT applications, digital twins, and machine learning models to optimize resource use and improve yield prediction are encouraged.

By gathering recent scientific advancements, this Special Issue will serve as a platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss how smart technologies are transforming horticulture. We invite original research articles and reviews that demonstrate the impact of these innovations on productivity, sustainability, and resilience in horticultural production systems.

We look forward to your contributions to this exciting field of research.

Dr. Adão Felipe dos Santos
Dr. Rouverson Pereira Silva
Prof. Dr. Aitazaz A. Farooque
Dr. Edgard Henrique Costa Silva
Guest Editors

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