Applications of Remote Sensing for Livestock and Grazing Land Management

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is focused on the application of remote sensing to aid livestock and grazing land management. Here, Grazing lands include rangelands, pastures and grazed forest. Tremendous increases in the number of ground-, air- and space-borne instruments offer unprecedented opportunities to assist livestock and rangeland management. Nearly all aspects of monitoring herd movement, vegetation conditions, water availability, weather, soil, and developing quantitative risk management strategies use remote sensing in some manner to improve outcomes.

We welcome research that examines the use of remote sensing technology, at any scale, to improve management outcomes in land or livestock management. The special issue should encompass a wide variety of foci including:

1) Remote sensing technologies and methodologies of grazing lands, and livestock using on-ground static sensors, aerial vehicles, ground vehicles, or satellite platforms.

2) Remote measurement of vegetation for determination of productivity, growth, biomass, nutritive quality, carbon and nitrogen stocks and fluxes.

3) Remote Monitoring of soil and water characteristics as relevant for livestock production and vegetation management.

4) Remote measurement of animal behavior, location and movement using for example GNSS, accelerometers, or high-resolution videography

5) Remote measurement of animal forage intake, nutrient excretion, performance, and body composition

6) Decision support systems based on remote sensing information and mathematical modeling

Dr. Matt Reeves
Dr. Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso
Prof. Luciano A. Gonzalez
Mr. Edward C. Rhodes
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Remote Sensing is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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