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Datasets in Intelligent Agriculture

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Cross Data".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2026 | Viewed by 4545

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Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 230 Agricultural Engineering Building, 460 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing; machine learning; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based imaging platform developments; precision agriculture; high-throughput plant phenotyping
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Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
Interests: application of advanced ideas of robotics; remote sensing; data mining and information technology in precision agriculture; multispectral/hyperspectral imaging; spectroscopy; machine learning; geographic information system (GIS); digital mapping; biochemical sensing; phenotyping
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasing age and decreasing number of practitioners, the application of intelligent agricultural equipment and robots in key areas of agricultural production, such as processing, storage, and quality control, is inevitable. As such, there is a need to obtain a large number of smart agricultural datasets to intelligently detect and analyze agricultural product quality and help meet the Earth's demand for a continuous supply of rich, nutritious, and delicious food. This Special Issue focuses on the breakthrough application of new-generation information technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and robots in the key areas of agricultural product quality control, alongside cross-integration and innovative research to solve bottleneck problems such as agricultural product information perception, intelligent decision making, and quality control.

This peer-reviewed Special Issue, titled “Datasets in Intelligent Agriculture”, focuses on the use of original datasets in this field. As such, we would like to invite experts and researchers to contribute original, high-quality research articles and reviews on the topic.

Dr. Wen-Hao Su
Dr. Zhou Zhang
Dr. Ce Yang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • intelligent plant identification
  • high-throughput phenotyping
  • deep learning
  • image segmentation
  • weed control
  • pest and disease monitoring
  • yield prediction
  • quality evaluation
  • grading equipment

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DLCPD-25: A Large-Scale and Diverse Dataset for Crop Disease and Pest Recognition
by Heng-Wei Zhang, Rui-Feng Wang, Zhengle Wang and Wen-Hao Su
Sensors 2025, 25(22), 7098; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25227098 - 20 Nov 2025
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 3919
Abstract
The accurate identification of crop pests and diseases is critical for global food security, yet the development of robust deep learning models is hindered by the limitations of existing datasets. To address this gap, we introduce DLCPD-25, a new large-scale, diverse, and publicly [...] Read more.
The accurate identification of crop pests and diseases is critical for global food security, yet the development of robust deep learning models is hindered by the limitations of existing datasets. To address this gap, we introduce DLCPD-25, a new large-scale, diverse, and publicly available benchmark dataset. We constructed DLCPD-25 by integrating 221,943 images from both online sources and extensive field collections, covering 23 crop types and 203 distinct classes of pests, diseases, and healthy states. A key feature of this dataset is its realistic complexity, including images from uncontrolled field environments and a natural long-tail class distribution, which contrasts with many existing datasets collected under controlled conditions. To validate its utility, we pre-trained several state-of-the-art self-supervised learning models (MAE, SimCLR v2, MoCo v3) on DLCPD-25. The learned representations, evaluated via linear probing, demonstrated strong performance, with the SimCLR v2 framework achieving a top accuracy of 72.1% and an F1 score (Macro F1) of 71.3% on a downstream classification task. Our results confirm that DLCPD-25 provides a valuable and challenging resource that can effectively support the training of generalizable models, paving the way for the development of comprehensive, real-world agricultural diagnostic systems. Full article
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