Recent Progress in GIS and Remote Sensing for Agriculture-Related Applications (Second Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "AI Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 2117
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geoinformation science; flood hazard; crop mapping; land use and land cover change
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Interests: remote sensing; agro-geoinformatics; environmental modeling; geospatial information interoperability and standards; cyberinfrastructure; digital twin; AI/machine learning; image processing and analysis; pattern recognition; crop mapping
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Interests: earth system science; geospatial information science; agro-geoinformatics; geospatial web service; spatial data infrastructure; geospatial data catalog; interoperability standard; agricultural drought monitoring and forecasting
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Monitoring agricultural activities can provide valuable information to farmers, investors, and decision makers. In recent years, space-based crop identification and monitoring have played a significant role in agricultural studies due to the development of remote sensing and GIS technology. Moreover, recent progress in digital technologies, such as cloud computing, data fusion, deep learning, artificial intelligence, social media, and cyber-infrastructure, has enhanced the spatial and temporal scale of crop mapping with new tools and methods for facilitating and promoting new innovative approaches in agriculture. This Special Issue will enable the publication of papers that explore the progress in innovative crop mapping and monitoring research and applications.
Papers suitable for this Special Issue must address relevant topics in agricultural mapping and monitoring and include sound implementation and validation procedures. We welcome submissions that describe state-of-the-art approaches in the progress in GIS and remote sensing for agriculture-related applications, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Research on remote sensing crop mapping theory, methodology, and practices;
- Geospatial information for stratification and sampling;
- Data fusion, calibration, validation, and ground truths for agricultural monitoring;
- Crop mapping, condition monitoring, acreage estimation, and yield modeling;
- Cropland evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and drought monitoring and assessment;
- Remote sensing-based agricultural disaster monitoring, assessment, mitigation, and emergency response;
- Global climate and environmental change and its impacts on agriculture sustainability and food security;
- Remote sensing monitoring and modeling on agricultural greenhouse gases;
- Agricultural environment and public health;
- Crop/plant disease detection, monitoring, and assessment;
- Cloud computing and big data in agriculture-related applications;
- Agricultural land use and land cover change;
- Agricultural deep learning and artificial intelligence technology;
- Analysis of spatial data uncertainty.
Dr. Li Lin
Dr. Chen Zhang
Prof. Dr. Liping Di
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- GIS
- crop mapping
- crop modeling
- crop yield estimation
- data processing
- agricultural monitoring
- AI and machine learning
- spatial–temporal analysis
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