Soil Sensing and Mapping in Precision Agriculture: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 52
Special Issue Editors
Interests: precision agriculture; probabilistic models; sensing; GIS
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Interests: agricultural mechanization; precision agriculture; sensors; agro-silvo-pastoral systems
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Interests: sensing; GIS; multispectral imagery; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue welcomes studies focusing on the use of proximal or remote soil sensing techniques for obtaining information related to any soil property and/or digital mapping, allowing, for example, the definition of homogeneous zones and promoting the use of the precision agriculture approach. Manuscripts may consider applications in agricultural or pasture and grassland fields. The following are examples of suitable topics: methods for the collection of soil and soil-related data, data modelling, the interpretation and elaboration of focused soil and/or plant information, and the application of soil and/or plant information in sectors (agriculture, forestry, natural resource management, climate change mitigation, etc.) or systems at different spatial levels, providing a basis for the implementation of field differentiated management, for example, through variable-rate technology (soil amendment, soil fertilization, etc.).
Particular interest will be paid to research using and/or developing novel data integration techniques, studies using novel proximal or remotely sensed data, and research outcomes for local stakeholders, including GIS-based planning and decision support tools.
Prof. Dr. Francisco Jesús Moral García
Dr. João Manuel Pereira Ramalho Serrano
Prof. Dr. Fernando Carvajal-Ramírez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- proximal soil sensing
- remote soil sensing
- digital soil mapping
- precision agriculture
- management zones
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