Special Issue "Agriculture and Forestry: Sensors, Technologies and Procedures"
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2015) | Viewed by 315495
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer vision; image processing; pattern recognition; 3D image reconstruction, spatio-temporal image change detection and tracking; fusion and registering from imaging sensors; superresolution from low-resolution image sensors
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Interests: agriculture; actuators; precision agriculture; automation & robotics; mechatronics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture and forestry are two areas where advances in sensors and technologies play an important role. Used individually or integrated into devices and machinery, sensors and technologies allow a more efficient use of resources while facilitating the realization of harsh, and occasionally dangerous tasks by the use of agrochemicals.
Methods and procedures, designed to make operational and profitable devices, allow the processing of relevant information oriented toward the efficiency of agricultural tasks.
The following is a list of the main topics covered by this special issue. The special issue will, however, not be limited to these issues:
- Sensors and technologies based on physical designs, including mechanical tools.
- Sensors for chemical analysis or applications: soil nutrients and properties, herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers.
- Sensors for monitorization: humidity, solar radiation, weeds densities, canopy analysis, soil compaction, energy consumption, diameter of trees, crown height, bark thickness, 3D structures.
- Sensors for quality: fruit identification and ripeness, yield estimation, storage monitoring.
- Sensors for autonomous agricultural vehicles: navigation, localization, crop rows detection, plants alignments, obstacle avoidance, communications, path following.
Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Pajares Martinsanz
Prof. Dr. Pablo González-de-Santos
Guest Editors
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Related Special Issues
- Sensor-Based Technologies and Processes in Agriculture and Forestry in Sensors (45 articles)
- Sensors in Agriculture and Forestry in Sensors (54 articles)