An Agricultural Perspective on Flying Sensors: State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Directions

In recent years, unmanned aerial systems (UASs) equipped with suitable sensors have been widely acknowledged by the scientific community as smart tools that can enable farmers to monitor and respond to crop growth progress in real time. These smart flying sensors have already opened up a huge potential for stakeholders-such as governments, farmers, UAS manufacturers, sensor developers, policy makers, and climate experts-to work together to seek optimal solutions in the context of precision agriculture.

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