Sensors Application in Agriculture

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Biology, life sciences; Research & information: general; Technology, engineering, agriculture; agricultural engineering; agricultural sensors; agriculture; airborne spray drift; autonomous robot; Barents region; calibration function; canopy temperature; capacitive soil moisture sensor; cosmic-ray; CRNS; Data-driven agriculture; date palms; digital farming; digitalization; Drainage Pipe Mapping; drift risk assessment tool; dynamic vapor sorption; electric weeder; embedded sensors; fluorescence; food security; food system; fungal infection; Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR); high-precision dryer; human security; hyperspectral; infrared thermography; inspection techniques; Internet of things; internet-based data acquisition; intra-row; IR imaging; IRT; ISO 11783; ISOBUS; maximum temperature difference; modeling; neutron; nitrogen fertilisation; plantation management; precision agriculture; precision farming; Real-Time Kinematic Global Navigation Satellite System (RTK/GNSS); Rear hitch position; reflectance; remote sensing; RFID; rotary harrow; row following; secondary tillage; sedimenting spray drift; sensor fusion; soil erosion; soil moisture; soil moisture content; sonar; spectrometry; spray drift reduction; sustainability; sustainable; thermal; tree inspection; tree monitoring; trees inspection; trees monitoring; under-vine; viticulture; VTA; water; water vapor pressure deficit; weather conditions; wheat; wheat genotypes; Wheel-based machine speed; yield
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• ISBN: 9783039432585; 9783039432592; books978-3-03943-259-2
• Access: Open Access

Novel technologies are playing an important role in the development of crop and livestock farming and have the potential to be the key drivers of sustainable intensification of agricultural systems. In particular, new sensors are now available with reduced dimensions, reduced costs, and increased performances, which can be implemented and integrated in production systems, providing more data and eventually an increase in information. It is of great importance to support the digital transformation, precision agriculture, and smart farming, and to eventually allow a revolution in the way food is produced. In order to exploit these results, authoritative studies from the research world are still needed to support the development and implementation of new solutions and best practices. This Special Issue is aimed at bringing together recent developments related to novel sensors and their proved or potential applications in agriculture.