Agriculture provides humanity with food, fibers, fuel, and raw materials that are paramount
for human livelihood. Today, this role must be satisfied within a context of environmental …

Precision Agriculture (PA) promises to boost crop productivity while reducing agricultural
costs and environmental footprints, and therefore is attracting ever-increasing interests in …

Environmental monitoring plays a central role in diagnosing climate and management
impacts on natural and agricultural systems; enhancing the understanding of hydrological …

In this study we review the state of the art of different physiologically-based water-saving
irrigation strategies and methods used to improve productive water use efficiency (WUE …

Low-altitude remote sensing (RS) using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a powerful tool
in precision agriculture (PA). In that context, thermal RS has many potential uses. The …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a valuable tool to collect data in a variety of
contexts. Their use in agriculture is particularly suitable, as those areas are often vast …

Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) is presently in continuous development at a rapid pace.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or more extensively Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) …

Plant stress phenotyping is essential to select stress-resistant varieties and develop better
stress-management strategies. Standardization of visual assessments and deployment of …

The use of a low-cost five-band multispectral camera (RedEdge, MicaSense, USA) and a
low-altitude airborne platform is investigated for the detection of plant stress caused by …

The aim of this study is twofold: first, to present a survey of the actual and most advanced
methods related to the use of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) that emerged in the past few …