Proximal Soil Sensors in Precision Agriculture
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 6775
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Interests: soil physics; vadose zone hydrology; precision agriculture; proximal soil sensing; digital soil mapping; soil spatial variability
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Dear Colleagues,
To achieve food security, it is important to optimize the use of land resources and to facilitate information technologies suitable for revealing the spatial variability required for optimum and economic management of crop production inputs; this approach is known as precision agriculture (PA). Since the early 1990s, researchers involved in conceptualizing PA indicated the need for proximal soil sensors (sensors that help measure soil conditions while placing in close proximity to the soil being evaluated), as it is more immune to the quality of soil coverage and atmospheric conditions. Today, this need is more urgent given rising costs of energy, labor, crop production inputs (e.g., seeds, fertilizer, pesticides), as well as increased environmental concerns such as soil health, surface water quality, and greenhouse gas emissions. Recent innovations in geophysics, spectroscopy, sensor technology, computing and others have resulted in some sensor types that are affordable and acceptable by end users.
The main goal of this special issue on ‘Proximal Soil Sensors in Precision Agriculture’ is to capture the current state-of-the-art and contemporary progress and perspectives on proximal soil sensors for precision agriculture applications. This issue aims at bringing together contributions from designers, developers, modellers, users and decision makers of various proximal soil sensors and tools for precision agriculture applications. Contributions related to any proximal soil sensors and sensor systems with current, potential, and perceived applications in precision agriculture are encouraged.
Dr. Asim Biswas
Guest Editor
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