Special Issue "Water Management Using Drones and Satellites in Agriculture"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water Resources Management, Policy and Governance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2018) | Viewed by 52722
Special Issue Editors

Interests: crop water requirements; soil–water management; irrigation management; soil science; fertility; precision viticulture; remote sensing; unmanned aerial vehicles; satellite imagery
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Interests: precision agriculture; neuronal networks; software implementation; remote sensing; geographic information systems
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Interests: irrigation; soil science; viticulture; modelling; crop water requirements; sustainability; environment
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Interests: viticulture; grape and wine quality; biochemistry; sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of drones and satellites in agriculture is a reality, although we are currently at the crossroads of quickly and efficiently exploiting the information obtained to render it useful to farmers, selecting the most appropriate and versatile tool for each situation. In this sense, water management is one of the key issues in agriculture in which these new technologies can provide solutions, such as where to manage irrigation water, maximizing its efficiency, adapting crops to climate change, and facilitating the worldwide increase of food production. This improvement of productivity should be linked to the assurance of the quality of the final product, by using less inputs (water and nutrients), thus, maintaining soil and water resources, and vegetal material. The use of aerial images, after being processed through different statistical techniques, combined with ground-based remote sensors, are key lines for future research in which new solutions and applications must be proposed, combining the number of techniques currently available.
Dr. Javier J. Cancela
Dr. Xesús P. González
Dr. José Manuel Mirás-Avalos
Dr. Mar Vilanova
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Precision Agriculture
- Irrigation Water Management
- Crop Water Requirements
- Soil Science
- Crop Quality
- Sensors
- Remote Sensing