Sensors Application in Agriculture

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: agricultural engineering; agricultural sensors; agriculture; airborne spray drift; autonomous robot; Barents region; Biology, life sciences; 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; Mathematics and Science; 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; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; reflectance; remote sensing; Research and information: general; 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; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; 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
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03943-259-2
• ISBN: 9783039432585; 3039432591; 9783039432592; 3039432583

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.