Digital Agriculture: Pathway to Prosperity and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2020) | Viewed by 395
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spatial informatics; data analytics; computer science; digital agriculture; sustainability
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Dear Colleagues,
Agricultural production will need to increase to meet demand from an increased global population and economic growth. Simultaneously, agricultural practices are under increased pressure to decrease their negative social and environmental impacts. The need to do ‘more with less’ will define agriculture over the coming decades. Digital agriculture can assist agricultural stakeholders with this by improving efficiency, enabling better decisions, and establishing trust. We invite authors to submit papers on digital agriculture and sustainability pertaining to areas such as:
- Robotics and automation;
- Smart sensors;
- Computational models;
- Data analytics;
- Advances in cloud computing;
- Remote sensing from satellites or unmanned aerial vehicles;
- Application of digital technology through the supply chain;
- Use of virtual/augmented reality;
- Indoor or vertical farming;
- Zero waste and circular economy;
- Digitally enabled management decisions;
- Digitally-focused law and policy decisions;
- Digitally inspired community collaboration and engagement
Dr. Alan Woodley
Dr. Chris Lehnert
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital agriculture
- future farming
- AgTech
- sustainability
- prosperity
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