[robocup-worldwide] Call for Paper: [Robotics] (ISSN 2218-6581, CiteScore 2.5) Special Issue "Advances in Agriculture and Forest Robotics" (deadline: 31 August 2021)

[Ms. Zoe Wang / Robotics]

Dear Colleague,

Based on your expertise in robots, I am contacting you to inquire if you
are interested in publishing a research article or a comprehensive
review to the Special Issue "Advances in Agriculture and Forest
Robotics" in open access journal /Robotics/.

Special Issue Website at:
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Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2021
Guest editors: Dr. Antonio Valente; Prof.Dr. Antonio Paulo Moreira; Dr.
José Lima and Dr. Filipe Santos

The focus of this Special Issue is on the presentation of several
theoretical and practical problems related to robotics, in addition to
new discoveries, new ideas, and innovative improvements made in the
field of robotics in agriculture and forestry.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

    - Robots for pruning, thinning, harvesting, mowing, spraying, and
weed removal
    - Robots for forest biomass harvesting
    - Robots for planting trees in forests
    - Fire-fighting robots
    - Aerial robots for forest monitoring
    - Aerial and ground robotic platforms for soil/crop monitoring,
prediction, and decision making
    - Aerial robotics for environmental and agricultural applications
    - Fruit and flower detection and recognition
    - Approaches to cost-effective sensing for day/night continuous 
operation
    - Long-term autonomy and navigation in unstructured farming environments
    - Manipulators and platforms for soil preparation, seeding, crop
protection, and harvesting
    - Adaptive sampling and informative data collection
    - Adaptive technologies that manage plants, soil, or animals
according to as-sensed status
    - Theoretical and empirical decision-oriented data-analysis
techniques including machine learning

If you decide to contribute to this special issue, please inform us. The
Editorial Board of Robotics strives to ensure a rigorous and efficient
peer review process for all manuscripts, in order to ensure high quality
manuscripts be published in a timely manner (if accepted after peer
review process).

Robotics provides an advanced forum for studies related to all aspects
of robotics. It is presently covered by the following indexing:
Scopus(citescore 2.5), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI - Web of
Science),Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), INSPEC (IET) and DBLP
Computer Science Bibliography. As a fully open access journal, the
Article Processing Charges of CHF 1400 (APC) apply to accepted papers.

For further details on the submission process, please see the
instructions for authors at the journal website:
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In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at:
robotics at mdpi.com or zoe.wang at mdpi.com.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Ms. Zoe Wang
Assistant Editor
E-Mail: zoe.wang at mdpi.com
Robotics Editorial Office
E-Mail: robotics at mdpi.com
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