摘要:
A total of 13 papers were published in this Special Issue entitled: “Emerging Sensor Technology in Agriculture”, and the topics addressed include different emerging technologies with applications on ecosystems (grasslands) [1] and several agriculture crops such as peppers [2], apples [2,3], grapevines [2,4,5,6,7], cocoa trees [6], citrus [8], legumes [9], wheat and rice [10,11].
[1] an aerial (Unmanned aerial vehicle—UAV) and an on-ground (Kinect sensor—RGB-D (Depth camera)) methods were used to characterize grass ley fields (plant height, biomass, and volume) composed of different species mixtures, using digital grass models.
The authors highlighted that more complex models are needed to estimate grain yield and carbon isotopes since the environmental conditions have a strong influence on the temperature profile of the plants.
[7] proposed the first artificial intelligence approach to model smoke contamination in canopies and smoke taint in grapes and wines using non-invasive infrared thermal imagery (IRTI) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR), producing highly accurate machine learning models.