Towards a Holistic Precision Irrigation Model: Transition to Climate Neutrality and Resilience

Dear Colleagues,

Water and energy are essential resources to ensure the productivity of agricultural irrigation systems: the former because of its limited availability, the latter because of both the environmental impacts of CO₂ emissions and its cost that, in some cases, could threaten the activity of irrigation. It is becoming more critical to use the right amount of water while minimizing energy costs and carbon footprint.

In recent years, there have been many technological advances, whose incorporation into agriculture has enabled us to establish the Agriculture 4.0 framework that can monitor agricultural processes in real time, reducing uncertainties. Furthermore, the new EU guidelines, such as the Green Deal and digitization, pose new challenges for making agriculture more sustainable and resilient to climate change, contributing effectively to climate change mitigation.

This Special Issue welcomes research works about efficient water and energy use in irrigation, mainly including new technologies and approaches such as precision irrigation, sensors, big data, Internet of Things  (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), modelling techniques, renewable energy sources, and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Prof. Dr. Juan Antonio Rodríguez Díaz
Dr. Rafael González Perea
Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Moreno
Guest Editors

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