Machine Learning for Applications in Agriculture and Vegetation Using Remote Sensing
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 1137
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machine learning; crop modelling; agriculture remote sensing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Earth observation through remote sensing provides an essential source of continuous spatio-temporal data. Artificial intelligence, in turn, can use these big data to gain new insights and information, as well as find correlations and patterns. Nevertheless, these data-driven algorithms sometimes lack interpretability and physical accuracy, which could be enhanced by combining machine learning approaches with process-based physical modeling.
This Special Issue on “Machine Learning for Applications in Agriculture and Vegetation Using Remote Sensing” aims to gather high-quality state-of-the-art research contributions on recent applications to support sustainable agricultural practices or new methods for vegetation monitoring, among others.
Manuscript submissions are encouraged to cover a broad range of related topics, including but not limited to the following:
- Data- and process-driven model integration for agriculture and vegetation applications;
- Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs);
- Digital twin with a focus on agriculture/vegetation;
- Potentials and limitations of AI algorithms and methods for agriculture/vegetation applications;
- AI for agricultural decision making;
- Data fusion and super-resolution;
- Time series analysis;
- Image processing, classification, semantic segmentation, and object detection;
- Hyperspectral imaging for agriculture/vegetation (e.g., protein quantification, soil carbon content);
- Change detection and agriculture/vegetation monitoring;
- Urban heat islands and green spaces;
- Drought monitoring;
- Pest and disease monitoring;
- Smart farming and agriculture.
All proposals related to the application of AI to remote sensing data in agriculture and vegetation will also be evaluated.
Dr. Christoph Jörges
Dr. Aaron Moody
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- deep learning
- remote sensing
- data mining
- water–energy–food nexus
- crop yield prediction
- agriculture
- climate change
- sustainable irrigation and fertilization
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