Advanced Machine Learning and Remote Sensing in Agriculture
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: closed (1 March 2022) | Viewed by 31714
Special Issue Editor
Interests: machine learning; computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition; remote sensing; application in agriculture
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing has a pivotal role in many areas of research and applications. Indeed, the last decade has seen significant technological advances in sensors, data acquisition, storage, and computing resources. The availability of data at multiple scales over large geographical areas has great potential to enable interesting methodologies and knowledge development in the agricultural domain. On the other hand, advanced machine learning has emerged as a powerful approach for analyzing remote sensing data. There is a growing trend to develop such an approach to assist in the digital transformation of agriculture, such as land use monitoring, crop yield forecasting and optimization, ecosystem management, etc.
However, despite these advances and the growing level of knowledge, significant challenges remain in the processing and analysis of remote sensing images in agriculture. For instance, the semantic gap between the information contained in the images and the functioning of crops or biophysical models, unlabeled and unbalanced data, generalization of learned models across different scales and environments, model explicability and interpretation, etc.
This Special Issue will disseminate the latest research findings in the machine learning methods using remote sensing data. It includes but is not limited to crops classification, disease identification and assessment, yield prediction and optimization, phenotyping, etc.
Dr. Adel Hafiane
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Supervised and unsupervised learning
- Weakly learning
- Deep learning
- Domain knowledge and adaptive learning
- Semantic models
- Generative models
- Feature engineering
- Crop monitoring and tools
- Ecosystem and environment management
- Agricultural models
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