Sensing Modeling and Robots for Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Modeling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 2354
Special Issue Editor
Interests: smart urban agriculture; artificial intelligence; agricultural robotics; automated control; unmanned aerial vehicle; plant phenotyping; computer vision; crop plant signaling; machine (deep) learning; food processing and safety; fluorescence imaging; hyper/multispectral imaging; Vis/NIR/MIR imaging spectroscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change poses a great threat to sustainable plant-based food production worldwide, but the rapid growth of human demand for foods requires that plant yields have to continue to increase each year. This requires making full use of existing land resources to ensure sustainable food production. As the global population continues to increase, fewer people are willing to work in agriculture. It is imperative to develop intelligent agricultural systems and robots, which can effectively alleviate the shortage of rural labor and improve agricultural production efficiency. The goal of smart agriculture is to achieve high-precision, high-efficiency, and green development of agricultural production, which requires smart agricultural equipment to be efficient, energy-saving, and environmentally friendly, and to improve the automation and intelligence level of agricultural operations. For future plant production, intelligent sensing and automatic control technology can be deeply integrated into agriculture, enabling automated perception of agricultural production information, quantitative decision-making, and intelligent control, thereby enabling precise input of agricultural inputs and providing customized services.
This Special Issue welcomes innovative research on intelligent sensing and automatic control technology for sustainable plant-based food production. We would like to invite experts and researchers in the field to contribute original and high-quality research articles and reviews to the journal (plants) peer-reviewed Special Issue: “Sensing Modeling and Robots for Plants”
Dr. Wen-Hao Su
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart agriculture
- artificial intelligence
- intelligent machines
- crop growth modeling
- robot–plant interaction
- high-throughput phenotyping
- target detection
- computer vision
- remote sensing
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