Artificial Intelligence, UAV, and Remote Sensing Applications for Precision Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few years, there has been a strong development of new technologies applied to the monitoring and control of different agricultural processes. This new growth has contributed to a significant increase in productivity, improvement in quality and reduction in the environmental impact of the agricultural processes. In the coming years, due to the high expectations of smart farming, there will be an increase in techniques that offer advanced data processing in digital environments. In this context, the use of drones, remote sensing and different artificial intelligence techniques are currently a reality.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones are now recognized as very useful tools to replace, help or assist humans in various missions, such as sensing, monitoring, mapping, inspection and surveillance. Many of these services involve the gathering of data and its processing with complex algorithms either in real-time or on the cloud, in many cases combining with data from remote sensing.

This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in technologies and algorithms, mainly based on artificial intelligence, to improve the applications of UAVs and remote sensing in precision agriculture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, plant disease and pest diagnosis; crop and orchard yield monitoring; advanced fertilization; variable operation prescription technologies; inspection of farms, vineyards or ranch animals; information management and management information systems.

In addition, this Special Issue is linked to the XII Iberian Congress of Agroengineering, organized by the University of Seville (Spain) and supported by the Spanish Society of Agroengineering and the Secção Especializada de Engenharia Rural da Sociedade de Ciências Agrárias from Portugal. This congress is a meeting point for researchers and technicians linked to agroengineering in Spain, Portugal, and the entire Ibero-American community. Papers submitted to the Congress on topics of precision agriculture, spatial analysis and data-driven technologies are invited to submit articles to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Luís Manuel Navas Gracia
Prof. Dr. Manuel Pérez-Ruiz
Guest Editors

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