About this Research Topic
At present, the prevention and control of crop diseases, insect pests, and weeds mainly depend on chemical pesticides. The efficient application of pesticides is an important prerequisite and key measure to reduce agricultural source pollution, ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products and protect people's health. With the rapid development of large-scale global agricultural operations, ground sprayers have been widely used to prevent and control crop diseases, insect pests and weeds. As people pay increasing attention to the agricultural ecological environment, higher requirements have been put forward for pesticide application technology and ground sprayers. In this case, there is an increasingly developing in the direction of precision, efficiency, and intelligence, which are considered effective means to improve the utilization of pesticides, and the operational efficiency of ground sprayers. This will be of great significance to the sustainable development of global agriculture.
However, challenges remain with the precision pesticide application and intelligent operation of ground sprayers. Due to the complex and variable environment in the field, the diversity of plant phenotype information and other reasons, precision pesticide application technology needs further breakthroughs in target identification and positioning, lag correction model of targeted application, and multi-system collaborative control, etc. At the same time, the intelligent operation of ground sprayers also exists problems of low real-time performance and high cost based on fusion technology of multi-sensor information perception, machine vision, and artificial intelligence. Therefore, there is an urgent need for more in-depth research to enable precision pesticide application and intelligent operation of ground sprayers to be maturely applied to the control of crop diseases, insect pests, and weeds in the field.
This collection welcomes, but is not limited to, the following subtopics:
• Target identification and positioning of pesticide application
• Precise control of targeted pesticide application
• Intelligent variable control of spray volume
• Robot spraying based on high-precision navigation
• Pesticide application IOT precision management
However, challenges remain with the precision pesticide application and intelligent operation of ground sprayers. Due to the complex and variable environment in the field, the diversity of plant phenotype information and other reasons, precision pesticide application technology needs further breakthroughs in target identification and positioning, lag correction model of targeted application, and multi-system collaborative control, etc. At the same time, the intelligent operation of ground sprayers also exists problems of low real-time performance and high cost based on fusion technology of multi-sensor information perception, machine vision, and artificial intelligence. Therefore, there is an urgent need for more in-depth research to enable precision pesticide application and intelligent operation of ground sprayers to be maturely applied to the control of crop diseases, insect pests, and weeds in the field.
This collection welcomes, but is not limited to, the following subtopics:
• Target identification and positioning of pesticide application
• Precise control of targeted pesticide application
• Intelligent variable control of spray volume
• Robot spraying based on high-precision navigation
• Pesticide application IOT precision management
Keywords: crop protection, precision pesticide application, intelligent agriculture, spraying system, ground sprayer
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
