Agri-Photonics in Precision Agriculture

Optical and photonic technologies are adopted to measure crop health and agri-food quality using remote sensing data in the visible, near-infrared, and thermal-infrared wavebands. Agri-photonics represents a new branch of research including electronic and opto-electronic technological advances implemented on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Decision Support Systems (DSS), multispectral imaging, and precision agriculture sensing. The work proposes an overview of agri-photonics tools adopted in research projects, by focusing the attention on electronic implementation and on experimental bio-physics aspects.