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  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,248 Views
29 Pages

22 November 2013

Nurse crops of widely spaced pioneer trees are a silvicultural approach to protect the regeneration of frost sensitive target tree species. If overstorey nurse crops are harvested, they can provide additional short-term benefits through increased bio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,495 Views
14 Pages

Assessment of the effects of crop management practices on soil physical properties is largely limited to soil moisture content, air content or bulk density, which can take considerable time to change. However, soil pore space indices evolve rapidly a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,575 Views
16 Pages

30 November 2023

The monitoring of crop phenology informs decisions in environmental and agricultural management at both global and farm scales. Current methodologies for crop monitoring using remote sensing data track crop growth stages over time based on single, sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access

TABS-Net: A Temporal Spectral Attentive Block with Space–Time Fusion Network for Robust Cross-Year Crop Mapping

  • Xin Zhou,
  • Yuancheng Huang,
  • Qian Shen,
  • Yue Yao,
  • Qingke Wen,
  • Fengjiang Xi and
  • Chendong Ma

21 January 2026

Accurate and stable mapping of crop types is fundamental to agricultural monitoring and food security. However, inter-annual phenological shifts driven by variations in air temperature, precipitation, and sowing dates introduce systematic changes in...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,585 Views
11 Pages

Bibliometric Analysis of Remote Sensing Research Trend in Crop Growth Monitoring: A Case Study in China

  • Lijuan Wang,
  • Guimin Zhang,
  • Ziyi Wang,
  • Jiangui Liu,
  • Jiali Shang and
  • Liang Liang

4 April 2019

Remote sensing of crop growth monitoring is an important technique to guide agricultural production. To gain a comprehensive understanding of historical progression and current status, and future trend of remote sensing researches and applications in...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,457 Views
14 Pages

Research Progress on a Wide and Narrow Row Cropping System for Crops

  • Liqun Tang,
  • Jian Song,
  • Yongtao Cui,
  • Honghuan Fan and
  • Jianjun Wang

20 January 2025

Optimizing planting density enhances light capture, improves air circulation, and promotes more efficient resource utilization, ultimately leading to increased crop productivity. It facilitates uniform growth, maximizes land use efficiency, reduces n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
343 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Row Spacing and Tropical Grass Intercropping on Biomass Sorghum Yield and Silage Quality

  • Giuliano Reis Pereira Muglia,
  • Marco Antonio Previdelli Orrico Junior,
  • Isabele Paola de Oliveira Amaral,
  • Marciana Retore,
  • Gessí Ceccon,
  • Ana Carolina Amorim Orrico,
  • Pedro Henrique Felipe da Silva and
  • Yara América da Silva

25 November 2025

This study aimed to determine the optimal combination of forage grass and row spacing to maximize the balance between sorghum silage yield and quality in a simultaneous sowing system for integrated crop-livestock production. The experiment evaluated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,109 Views
21 Pages

A Cloud Computing Framework for Space Farming Data Analysis

  • Adrian Genevie Janairo,
  • Ronnie Concepcion,
  • Marielet Guillermo and
  • Arvin Fernando

This study presents a system framework by which cloud resources are utilized to analyze crop germination status in a 2U CubeSat. This research aims to address the onboard computing constraints in nanosatellite missions to boost space agricultural pra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,057 Views
27 Pages

An Efficient Method for Counting Large-Scale Plantings of Transplanted Crops in UAV Remote Sensing Images

  • Huihua Wang,
  • Yuhang Zhang,
  • Zhengfang Li,
  • Mofei Li,
  • Haiwen Wu,
  • Youdong Jia,
  • Jiankun Yang and
  • Shun Bi

26 February 2025

Counting the number of transplanted crops is a crucial link in agricultural production, serving as a key method to promptly obtain information on crop growth conditions and ensure the yield and quality. The existing counting methods primarily rely on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
687 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2025

Detecting small split pins on transmission lines poses significant challenges, including low accuracy in complex backgrounds and slow inference speeds. To address these limitations, this study proposes a novel two-stage collaborative detection framew...

  • Review
  • Open Access
986 Views
23 Pages

1 November 2025

Water scarcity has become a significant constraint to agricultural development in China. In this study, we employed bibliometric methods to systematically review the current research on crop water use efficiency (WUE) and the development trends in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,524 Views
13 Pages

In Saudi Arabia, the tomato is susceptible to a wide range of insect pests that could destroy this valuable vegetable crop, cause yield losses, and affect fruit quality and quantity. Insecticides are widely applied to protect tomatoes and control pes...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,807 Views
16 Pages

14 September 2022

As a new theme in agricultural water resources evaluation, the crop water footprint (CWF) has attracted much attention, and the number of published studies has shown rapid growth. In order to explore the research prospects of the CWF, this paper cond...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,350 Views
16 Pages

Conquering Space with Crops That Produce Ample Oxygen and Antioxidants

  • Stephanie K. Polutchko,
  • William W. Adams,
  • Christine M. Escobar and
  • Barbara Demmig-Adams

6 June 2022

Sustainable long-term space missions require regenerative life support from plants. Traditional crop plants lack some features desirable for use in space environments. The aquatic plant family Lemnaceae (duckweeds) has enormous potential as a space c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,201 Views
13 Pages

Supporting Crop and Different Row Spacing as Factors Influencing Weed Infestation in Lentil Crop and Seed Yield under Organic Farming Conditions

  • Piotr Kraska,
  • Sylwia Andruszczak,
  • Ewa Kwiecińska-Poppe,
  • Mariola Staniak,
  • Krzysztof Różyło and
  • Hubert Rusecki

19 December 2019

A field study was conducted at the Certified Organic Farm in Poland over the period 2014–2016. This study evaluated weed infestation and seed yield of the lentil varieties ‘Tina’ and ‘Anita’, as well as of a mixture of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,919 Views
13 Pages

Soybean Relative Maturity, Not Row Spacing, Affected Interseeded Cover Crops Biomass

  • Hans J. Kandel,
  • Dulan P. Samarappuli,
  • Kory L. Johnson and
  • Marisol T. Berti

Adoption of cover crop interseeding in the northwestern Corn Belt in the USA is limited due to inadequate fall moisture for establishment, short growing season, additional costs, and need for adapted winter-hardy species. This study evaluated three c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,662 Views
33 Pages

Evaluation of the U.S. Peanut Germplasm Mini-Core Collection in the Virginia-Carolina Region Using Traditional and New High-Throughput Methods

  • Sayantan Sarkar,
  • Joseph Oakes,
  • Alexandre-Brice Cazenave,
  • Mark D. Burow,
  • Rebecca S. Bennett,
  • Kelly D. Chamberlin,
  • Ning Wang,
  • Melanie White,
  • Paxton Payton and
  • Maria Balota
  • + 5 authors

18 August 2022

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important food crop for the U.S. and the world. The Virginia-Carolina (VC) region (Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina) is an important peanut-growing region of the U.S and is affected by numerous biotic an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,174 Views
19 Pages

Testing New Concepts for Crop Cultivation in Space: Effects of Rooting Volume and Nitrogen Availability

  • Silje A. Wolff,
  • Carolina F. Palma,
  • Leo Marcelis,
  • Ann-Iren Kittang Jost and
  • Sander H. Van Delden

6 October 2018

Long term human missions to the Moon and Mars, rely on life support systems for food production and regeneration of resources. In the EU H2020 TIME SCALE-project, an advanced life support system concept was developed to facilitate plant research and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,954 Views
22 Pages

Νarrow Row Spacing and Cover Crops to Suppress Weeds and Improve Sulla (Hedysarum coronarium L.) Biomass Production

  • Ioannis Gazoulis,
  • Panagiotis Kanatas,
  • Nikolaos Antonopoulos,
  • Alexandros Tataridas and
  • Ilias Travlos

10 October 2022

Sulla (Hedysarum coronarium L.) is a new candidate crop for biofuel production. A field trial was conducted in 2018–2020 in Pyrgos, Greece, and repeated in 2019–2021 to evaluate different row spacings and cover crops for weed management i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,128 Views
17 Pages

31 August 2016

This paper presents the potential of the four-image spectral endmember (EM) space comprising sand (SL), green vegetation (GV), saline land (SA), and dark materials (DA), unmixed from Landsat TM/ETM+ to map dryland agricultural soil alkalinity and sal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,470 Views
17 Pages

12 August 2022

In agriculture, efforts are being made to reduce pesticides and fertilizers because of the possible negative environmental impacts, high costs, political requirements, and declining social acceptance. With precision farming, significant savings can b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,170 Views
19 Pages

Cultivar-Specific Performance and Qualitative Descriptors for Butterhead Salanova Lettuce Produced in Closed Soilless Cultivation as a Candidate Salad Crop for Human Life Support in Space

  • Christophe El-Nakhel,
  • Maria Giordano,
  • Antonio Pannico,
  • Petronia Carillo,
  • Giovanna Marta Fusco,
  • Stefania De Pascale and
  • Youssef Rouphael

14 July 2019

Plant production is crucial for space journeys self-autonomy by contributing to the dietary intake necessary to sustain the physical and psychological well-being of space colonists, as well as for contributing to atmospheric revitalization, water pur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,159 Views
13 Pages

Subirrigation of Container-Grown Tomato II: Physical and Chemical Properties of the Growing Medium

  • Juana Cruz García-Santiago,
  • Luis Alonso Valdez-Aguilar,
  • Donita L. Cartmill,
  • Andrew D. Cartmill,
  • Porfirio Juárez-López and
  • Daniela Alvarado-Camarillo

24 October 2019

Subirrigation of containerized vegetable crops is a promising strategy to increase water and nutrient use efficiency, however, the longer growing seasons for cultivation of vegetable species may cause marked changes in the physical and chemical subst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,156 Views
11 Pages

Sugarcane Row Gaps Assessment over Successive Burned and Unburned Annual Harvests

  • Roberta Q. Cavalcanti,
  • Mário M. Rolim,
  • Renato P. de Lima,
  • Pedro F. S. Ortiz,
  • Elvira M. R. Pedrosa and
  • Joez A. de Moraes Rodrigues

3 October 2023

Mechanized harvesting operations promote a series of benefits to sugarcane production but are also a cultivation step responsible for developing a series of problems for the soil and the plants due to plant mechanical damage, resulting in a decline i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,949 Views
16 Pages

Bibliometric Network Analysis of Crop Yield Gap Research over the Past Three Decades

  • Yimin Hu,
  • Shuqi Yang,
  • Xin Qian,
  • Zongxin Li,
  • Yuchuan Fan,
  • Kiril Manevski,
  • Yuanquan Chen and
  • Wangsheng Gao

6 November 2023

Achieving global food security requires an understanding of the current status and the future trends in the yield gap for cropping systems worldwide. The aim of this study was to scientifically understand the existing yield gap research, recognize th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
13,811 Views
17 Pages

Challenges for a Sustainable Food Production System on Board of the International Space Station: A Technical Review

  • Petronia Carillo,
  • Biagio Morrone,
  • Giovanna Marta Fusco,
  • Stefania De Pascale and
  • Youssef Rouphael

The possibility of prolonging space missions—and consequently the permanence of humans in space—depends on the possibility of providing them with an adequate supply of fresh foods to meet their nutritional requirements. This would allow s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,622 Views
21 Pages

25 May 2018

In this study, planting density and site effects on hybrid poplar productivity and stem dimensions were evaluated on the mid-term and longer term (8 and 14 years) in southern Québec (Canada). We also evaluated the effects of planting density a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,123 Views
20 Pages

Substrate Matters: Ionic Silver Alters Lettuce Growth, Nutrient Uptake, and Root Microbiome in a Hydroponics System

  • LaShelle Spencer,
  • Blake Costine,
  • Tesia Irwin,
  • Anirudha Dixit,
  • Cory Spern,
  • Angie Diaz,
  • Brittney Lozzi,
  • Wenyan Li,
  • Christina Khodadad and
  • Aubrie O’Rourke
  • + 2 authors

Ionic silver (Ag+) is being investigated as a residual biocide for use in NASA spacecraft potable water systems on future crewed missions. This water will be used to irrigate future spaceflight crop production systems. We have evaluated the impact of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,549 Views
15 Pages

Hybrid Percolation–Ultrasound Method for Extracting Bioactive Compounds from Urtica dioica and Salvia officinalis

  • Ana-Maria Tăbărașu,
  • Florin Nenciu,
  • Dragoș-Nicolae Anghelache,
  • Valentin-Nicolae Vlăduț and
  • Iuliana Găgeanu

9 September 2024

Enhancing the efficacy of biofertilizers and biopesticides for horticultural applications presents numerous challenges, given the need to balance effectiveness with environmental and economic factors. Achieving these goals requires rigorous research...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,915 Views
16 Pages

The Use of Soybean–Corn Strip Compound Planting Implements in the Yellow River Basin of China for Intercropping Patterns in Areas of Similar Dimensions

  • Qi Fan,
  • Nan Gao,
  • Yonglai Zhao,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Xiaoyu Liu,
  • Yaqing Ding,
  • Wenxue Niu,
  • Lihe Wang and
  • Ruilong Feng

The soybean and corn strip cropping pattern is widely promoted globally, but at present, the degree of mechanization of this planting mode is insufficient, and the development of machinery is slow. In this regard, through a review of the literature a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
442 Views
28 Pages

JM-Guided Sentinel 1/2 Fusion and Lightweight APM-UNet for High-Resolution Soybean Mapping

  • Ruyi Wang,
  • Jixian Zhang,
  • Xiaoping Lu,
  • Zhihe Fu,
  • Guosheng Cai,
  • Bing Liu and
  • Junfeng Li

5 December 2025

Accurate soybean mapping is critical for food–oil security and cropping assessment, yet spatiotemporal heterogeneity arising from fragmented parcels and phenological variability reduces class separability and robustness. This study aims to deli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
395 Views
27 Pages

The Optimization of Maize Intercropped Agroforestry Systems by Changing the Fertilizing Level and Spacing Between Tree Lines

  • Zibuyile Dlamini,
  • Ágnes Kun,
  • Béla Gombos,
  • Mihály Zalai,
  • Ildikó Kolozsvári,
  • Mihály Jancsó,
  • Beatrix Bakti and
  • László Menyhárt

8 January 2026

Agroforestry is defined as a multifunctional approach to land management that enhances biodiversity and soil health while mitigating environmental impacts compared to intensive agriculture. The efficacy of maize cultivation in agroforestry systems is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,926 Views
11 Pages

Response of Maize, Cotton, and Soybean to Increased Crop Density in Heterogeneous Planting Arrangements

  • Sandra R. Ethridge,
  • Anna M. Locke,
  • Wesley J. Everman,
  • David L. Jordan and
  • Ramon G. Leon

23 May 2022

The reduction of row spacing and increase of crop population density are important tools for maximizing crop yield. For this strategy to be effective, the crop population should not create intraspecific crop competition that penalizes yield. Thus, pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,055 Views
16 Pages

Impact of Subsurface Drainage System Design on Nitrate Loss and Crop Production

  • Soonho Hwang,
  • Shailendra Singh,
  • Rabin Bhattarai,
  • Hanseok Jeong and
  • Richard A. Cooke

6 November 2024

Subsurface (or tile) drainage offers a valuable solution for enhancing crop productivity in poorly drained soils. However, this practice is also associated with significant nutrient leaching, which can contribute to water quality problems at the regi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,426 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2024

Experimental studies were conducted on the cultivation of tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L.) at Shandong Agricultural University, China, from 2022 to 2023. Three cultivation patterns were designed as follows: a north–south orientation with a ro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,413 Views
14 Pages

Horizontal Distribution of Liquid in an Over-Row Sprayer with a Secondary Air Blower

  • Piotr Markowski,
  • Zdzisław Kaliniewicz,
  • Adam Lipiński,
  • Seweryn Lipiński,
  • Patrik Burg and
  • Vladimír Mašán

7 October 2024

The aim of this study was to determine the influence of boom height above a crop stand and the spacing between nozzles and diffusers in an over-row sprayer on the uniformity of the horizontal spray distribution and the uniformity of the air velocity...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,036 Views
44 Pages

6 June 2024

Planting cover crops can improve soil health and help to sustain agricultural crop yields. In northern climates where corn (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.) are grown, cover crop biomass production can be low. This has led to people investig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,057 Views
20 Pages

26 February 2023

Nowadays, the leading role of data from sensors to monitor crop irrigation practices is indisputable. The combination of ground and space monitoring data and agrohydrological modeling made it possible to evaluate the effectiveness of crop irrigation....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,805 Views
20 Pages

Simulation of Subsurface Drainage in the Sugarcane Crop under Different Spacing and Drain Depths

  • Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir,
  • Asdrubal Jesus Farias-Ramirez,
  • Jarbas Honorio de Miranda,
  • Maria Alejandra Moreno-Pizani,
  • Sergio Nascimento Duarte,
  • Franklin Javier Paredes-Trejo,
  • Luca Salvati and
  • Cristina Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir

24 April 2022

Agricultural land drainage is an instrument for growing production and a tool for the conservation of land resources. The performance of land drainage systems is thus critical for achieving sustainable agricultural production Recently, many types of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,775 Views
13 Pages

Cover Crops Affect Performance of Organic Scarlotta Seedless Table Grapes Under Plastic Film Covering in Southern Italy

  • Luigi Tarricone,
  • Giambattista Debiase,
  • Gianvito Masi,
  • Giovanni Gentilesco and
  • Francesco Montemurro

10 April 2020

In sustainable or organic vineyard systems, the introduction of cover crops could represent a powerful tool for farmers to influence, positively, the agro-ecosystem by promoting the whole soil-plant system equilibrium. Concerning table grape producti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,966 Views
14 Pages

Agro-Ecological Practice for Sustaining Higher Productivity of Fennel Plant Using Alley Cropping System and Endophytic Fungi

  • Sabah A. Hammad,
  • Magdi I. Bahnasy,
  • Nurah M. Alzamel,
  • Mona F. A. Hussein,
  • Ahmed A. A. Mahmoud and
  • Naglaa Loutfy

18 June 2024

Sustainable ecological agriculture is achieved by regulating the benefits of trees. The application of leguminous trees as alley cropping protects and increases soil fertility, improves the quality of water by intercepting pesticides, changes the loc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,865 Views
38 Pages

5 February 2024

Nitrogen (N) is the most limiting nutrient for the production of vegetable crops, but anthropogenic sources pose risks due to its transformation into several reactive forms and movement throughout the environment. The bulk of the N research to date t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,847 Views
13 Pages

With intensification of urbanization throughout the world, food security is being threatened by the population surge, frequent occurrence of extreme climate events, limited area of available cultivated land, insufficient utilization of urban space, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
8,876 Views
14 Pages

Study of the Variations of Archaeological Marks at Neolithic Site of Lucera, Italy Using High-Resolution Multispectral Datasets

  • Athos Agapiou,
  • Vasiliki Lysandrou,
  • Rosa Lasaponara,
  • Nicola Masini and
  • Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis

1 September 2016

Satellite images have been systematically explored by archaeologists to detect crop marks, which are considered as a proxy for the identification of buried archaeological remains. Even though several existing algorithms are frequently applied, such a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,549 Views
19 Pages

19 June 2022

Groundnut is a very important crop in the West and Central Africa (WCA) region, accounting for almost 70% of Africa’s groundnut production in 2019. Despite its economic importance, the crop’s yield is still low. For a high yield and profi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,748 Views
13 Pages

24 October 2022

Growing populations and rapid urbanization have put tremendous pressure on the food supply. The rural hinterland around cities is an important source of the urban food supply chain. Facing the constraints of China’s land stock, reasonable use o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,004 Views
21 Pages

A Revised Equation of Water Application Efficiency in a Center Pivot System Used in Crop Rotation in No Tillage

  • Federico Aimar,
  • Ángel Martínez-Romero,
  • Aquiles Salinas,
  • Juan Pablo Giubergia,
  • Ignacio Severina and
  • Roberto Paulo Marano

14 November 2022

Correctly quantifying total losses of irrigation in a center pivot system is important for improving application management and efficiency (Ea). The equations usually used to estimate Ea in sprinkler irrigation systems do not consider certain aspects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,008 Views
27 Pages

The renaissance in urban agriculture is driven by its contributions to fostering more sustainable, healthy, and renaturalized cities. While urban gardens are usually designed to improve food security or serve social purposes, they also offer addition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
13,649 Views
15 Pages

Mapping Wide Row Crops with Video Sequences Acquired from a Tractor Moving at Treatment Speed

  • Nadir Sainz-Costa,
  • Angela Ribeiro,
  • Xavier P. Burgos-Artizzu,
  • María Guijarro and
  • Gonzalo Pajares

11 July 2011

This paper presents a mapping method for wide row crop fields. The resulting map shows the crop rows and weeds present in the inter-row spacing. Because field videos are acquired with a camera mounted on top of an agricultural vehicle, a method for i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,355 Views
20 Pages

29 August 2019

Cultivated land productivity is a basic guarantee of food security. This study extracted the multiple cropping index (MCI) and most active days (MAD, i.e., days when the EVI exceeded a threshold) based on crop growth EVI curves to analyse the changes...

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