Dear colleagues,

The following Special Issue will be published in Sensors
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/, ISSN 1424-8220), and is now
open to receive submissions of full research papers and comprehensive
review articles for peer-review and possible publication:

Special Issue: Sensor-Based Technologies and Processes in Agriculture
and Forestry
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/si/sensors/agriculture_forestry/
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Pajares Martinsanz, Prof. Dr. Andrea
Peruzzi and Prof. Dr. Pablo Gonzalez-de-Santos
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2012

Topics of this Special Issue include, but not limited to, (Topics related to
Remote Sensing and Wireless Sensor Networks are excluded)

* Sensors for physical treatments
* Sensors for chemical analysis or application of chemical spraying
* Sensors for variable measurements
* Sensors for obtaining 3D structures, crop rows detection or plants
alignments.
* Sensors for autonomous or guided navigation and actuation
* Simulations of the above sensor technologies, methods and procedures
for data processing.

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline
Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send
us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the
Editorial Office at sensors@mdpi.com.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and
free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent
citations as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the
authors and their institutes. More information is available at
http://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/. Article Processing Charges
(APC) are of 1600 CHF per accepted article. For details see:
http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/instructions/. Manuscripts should be
submitted through the online manuscript submission and editorial system at
http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220) is the leading international, peer-reviewed
open access journal on the science and technology of sensors and
biosensors, and is published by MDPI online monthly. Papers published in
Sensors will receive high publicity since the journal is freely available online.
Sensors is covered by leading indexing services, including the Science
Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Chemical Abstracts, INSPEC,
Scopus and CAB Abstracts, PubMed/MEDLINE. The most recent Impact
Factor for the year 2010 is 1.771.

MDPI publishes several peer-reviewed, open access journals listed at
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In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at:
sensors@mdpi.com

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
MDPI AG

On behalf of the Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Gonzalo Pajares Martinsanz
Dpt. Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Informatics
University Complutense of Madrid
28040 Madrid
Spain
E-Mail: pajares@fdi.ucm.es

and

Prof. Dr. Andrea Peruzzi
Department of Agronomy and Agroecosystem Management
University of Pisa
Via S. Michele degli Scalzi 2
56124 Pisa
Italy
Website: http://unimap.unipi.it/cercapersone/dettaglio.php?ri=5855&template=dettaglio.tp
E-Mail: aperuzzi@agr.unipi.it

and

Prof. Dr. Pablo Gonzalez-de-Santos
Centre for Automation and Robotics
Spanish National Research Council - (CSIC)
28500 Arganda del Rey, Madrid
Spain
E-Mail: pablo.gonzalez@car.upm-csic.es

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