Sensors Technology and Sensing for Postharvest Quality Management in Agri-Food Chains
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 July 2022) | Viewed by 10909
Special Issue Editors
Interests: postharvest fruit treatments; physiological disorders of fruits in storage; the effect of preharvest factors on postharvest behavior of fruit; fruit quality; nondestructive methods of fruit quality determination; introduction of less known fruit species
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Interests: sensors (IoT, flexible sensors) and data processing in food supply chain/industrial engineering; live animal management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Postharvest management plays a crucial role in ensuring a safe, economically viable, and sustainable supply of agricultural products to the growing world population. Postharvest losses of fruits and vegetables are estimated to be more than 30%, even in developed countries where adequate infrastructure and technology are widely available. Therefore, it is of crucial importance to speed up the development of innovative technologies that will help to optimize the postharvest chain and decrease postharvest loss. Sensor-based digital technologies are valuable tools with huge potential to achieve this goal in a cost-effective, sustainable, and efficient way.
Therefore, this Special Issue invites the submission of both review and original research articles related to sensors technology and sensing in the post-harvest phase of agri-food chains. This issue is open to contributions covering all aspects from both theoretical and practical points of view (signal acquisition and processing, data mining and fusion from sensors, together with applications in the decision-making process and quality monitoring) for postharvest quality management of agricultural products. It is focused on horticultural products (fruits, vegetables, and ornamentals) and live animal transportation, given their high value and high possibility of postharvest loss/death. However, contributions dealing with other agricultural products are also acceptable if they fit within the primary scope of the Special Issue.
We welcome original research papers and review articles on postharvest sensor technology, their applications, and comparison between different applications and solutions for postharvest problems in the agri-food chain.
Prof. Dr. Tomislav Jemrić
Prof. Dr. Xiaoshuan Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- New Sensor and/or system development for postharvest application
- Postharvest applications of sensor and sensing technologies
- Data mining and analysis of data from such postharvest sensors
- Machine learning approaches involving data from postharvest sensors
- Postharvest quality monitoring of horticultural products and live animals
- Optimization of the postharvest chain using sensor technologies
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