Open Source Agriculture Technology
A special issue of Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080). This special issue belongs to the section "Information and Communication Technologies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2021) | Viewed by 12192
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Dear Colleagues,
We are planning to publish a Special Issue on “Open Agricultural Technology”. It is beneficial to all of us who eat if the technologies that produce our food and the data about our food system are both made public and enable control by the farmers that produce them. One way of accomplishing this is to apply open source design principles to agricultural technologies. We are interested in publishing work from developers creating advanced, high-quality open source agricultural technologies for a wide range of applications that provide better control and lower costs than conventional technologies.
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide original research in (1) low-cost agricultural technology designs; (2) performance validation and evaluation studies of newly developed agriculture technology, including openly accessible reference standards; and (3) review articles on the current status of open source agricultural technology and their applications.
We are especially interested in submissions covering open source technologies for:
- Monitoring soil and water quality;
- Irrigation and water use efficiency;
- Agriculture machinery at the small and large scale;
- Agriculture-focused remote sensing;
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for agriculture.
All the participants of Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology (GOAT 2020), on 7–10 June 2020, in New York, USA and their colleagues are encouraged to submit to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Joshua M. Pearce
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- open source hardware
- open source software
- open source agriculture
- agriculture technology
- agriculture machinery
- organic agriculture
- sustainable agriculture
- conservation agriculture
- precision agriculture
- organic farming
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