Revolutionizing Agriculture and Natural Resource Management with Artificial Intelligence Approaches
A special issue of Informatics (ISSN 2227-9709).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 449
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machine learning; deep learning; big earth data; crop classification; mobility analysis
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: remote sensing; earth observation; UAV photogrammetry; machine learning; crop type/LC classification; digital agriculture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture and natural resource systems lie at the nexus of food security, climate resilience, biodiversity, and rural livelihoods. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—with a particular emphasis on machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL)—from GeoAI and foundation models to AI-enabled sensing at the edge are transforming how we observe, understand, and steward working landscapes.
This Special Issue of Informatics examines how AI is reshaping agriculture and natural resource management through GeoAI, AIoT, computer vision, UAVs, and field robotics. We invite original research and comprehensive review articles that advance theoretical understanding, propose novel methodologies, or present innovative practical AI approaches that turn Big Earth Data from Earth observation (EO)-based satellites, UAVs, and in situ/AIoT sensors into decision-ready insights for understanding crop planning, crop health, yield forecasting, soil and water management, biodiversity monitoring, and risk assessment. By uniting theoretical advances in AI with field-ready systems, this Special Issue aims to chart new directions across GeoAI, AIoT, computer vision, UAVs, and field robotics for agriculture and natural resource management.
We welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Big Earth Data and GeoAI for crop health, crop yield, soil health, evapotranspiration, and drought/stress monitoring;
- AI approaches of spatiotemporal forecasting for agro-ecological systems;
- Edge and AIoT systems for scalable field analytics;
- Computer vision for disease/weed detection, phenotyping, and quality grading;
- Autonomous, multi-modal UAV systems from sensing to actuation;
- Field robotics: autonomous scouting and precision spraying/harvesting;
- AI applications for water allocation/quality monitoring; watershed-scale modeling and decision support;
- The role of AI in biodiversity assessment, restoration monitoring, and anti-deforestation analytics;
- Integrating AI approaches together with remote sensing data such as satellite, weather stations and in situ data in monitoring health management and sustainable agricultural practices.
Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat
Dr. Jaturong Som-ard
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agriculture
- natural resource management
- big earth data
- artificial intelligence
- AIoT
- computer vision
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