Abstract
Sensor applications are impacting the everyday objects that enhance human life quality. In this special issue, the main objective was to address recent advances of sensor applications in agriculture covering a wide range of topics in this field. A total of 14 articles were published in this special issue where nine of them were research articles, two review articles and two technical notes. The main topics were soil and plant sensing, farm management and post-harvest application. Soil-sensing topics include monitoring soil moisture content, drain pipes and topsoil movement during the harrowing process while plant-sensing topics include evaluating spray drift in vineyards, thermography applications for winter wheat and tree health assessment and remote-sensing applications as well. Furthermore, farm management contributions include food systems digitalization and using archived data from plowing operations, and one article in post-harvest application in sunflower seeds.
Highlights
IntroductionTechnologies 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
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 available with reduced dimensions, reduced costs and increased performance, which can be implemented and integrated in production systems, allowing an increase of data and eventually an increase of information
Farm management is an issue that goes beyond normal everyday agricultural practice
Summary
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. New sensors are available with reduced dimensions, reduced costs and increased performance, which can be implemented and integrated in production systems, allowing an increase of data and eventually an increase of information. This is of great importance to support digital transformation, precision agriculture and smart farming, and to eventually allow a revolution in the way food is produced. Soil moisture sensors support farmers’ decisions for irrigation practices which resulted in preventing plants from drought stress and over application of irrigation. The revolution in sensors, information and communications technology resulted in substantial archived data for whole-farm practices and impacted in the whole system management.
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