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                      International Conference on
                   Smart and Sustainable Agriculture
                            --- SSA'2021 ---

                 Virtual Conference, June 21-22, 2021

               http://www.adda-association.org/ssa-2021/

The goal of the International Conference on Smart  and  Sustainable  Agriculture
(SSA) is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss
and exchange novel  ideas,  results,  experiences  and  work-in-process  on  all
aspects of Smart and Sustainable Agriculture. SSA 2021 attendees will appreciate
and benefit from multidisciplinary exchanges on these hot topics. SSA 2021  will
be held virtually from March 29th to March 30th 2021.

Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are  not  under
review in any other conference or journal, to
                https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssa2021

The accepted papers will be published as a post-proceedings in Springer's CCIS. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series is indexed
by the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), included in
ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, Scopus, etc. Selected papers will be further considered
for possible publication in a Special
Issue of the MDPI Agriculture journal and Wiley Internet Technology Letters.

Topics of interest include any aspects that are related, connected and/or  could
be of benefits to smart agriculture. This includes and is not limited to:

* Communication and Networking
* Internet of Things
* Data processing for smart agriculture
* Long range IoT (LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT)
* Satellite Communication
* Time Synchronization
* Self-Configuration
* Service Discovery
* Sensor Networks
* Quality-of-Service
* Protocol optimization
* Prototype systems and real-world deployment experiences
* Secure Services and Protocols
* Energy Efficiency
* Standards and norms
* Security and privacy
* Machine learning and Big Data
* Application for smart agriculture
* Autonomous systems
* Image processing
* Testbeds and platforms
* Robotics and energy efficient devices
* Renewable-energy based devices
* Low-cost solutions for wide-area exploitations and developing countries
* Smart agriculture and urban farming
* Smart irrigation
* Application to small-size and large-size exploitations
* Application of ancestral farming to smart agriculture
* Waste management for agriculture 2.0
* Census of regional ancestral farming

Position papers are also welcome and should be clearly marked as such.

Important dates
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Paper submission: April 25, 2021
Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2021 
Final manuscripts due: June 4, 2021
Conference: June 21-22, 2021

Submission
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Submissions must not be published or submitted to a journal and/or  conference /
workshop with proceedings. All submissions should be anonymous (i.e., no  author
names/affiliations and obvious citations). Submissions are to  be  made  to  the
submission web site:

        https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssa2021


Only pdf files are accepted. Submissions not meeting the above  guidelines  will
be rejected without other consideration.

Authors of accepted papers must present their papers. At  least  one  author  of
each accepted paper is required to register and present the paper. 

Best paper award
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All papers are eligible for best paper award sponsored by MDPI and the ADDA Association.
The award will be announced at the conference.