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CFP: IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics Special Issue on Precision Agriculture and Forestry

Special Issue Editors: Giuseppe Loianno, Varun Murali, Fiorella Sibona, Fernando Cladera, Salah Sukkarieh, Vijay Kumar

Precision agriculture is essential for increasing crop yields while reducing environmental impact, particularly in the face of climate change effects. Commercial robotic solutions are actively being deployed to assist in agricultural tasks enhancing efficiency and productivity. However, autonomous robots are far from reaching their full potential in this domain. Fully autonomous robots can significantly impact precision agriculture by providing mapping, sensing, or manipulation capabilities for crops and forests, enabling fruit counting, tree diameter estimation, crop disease detection, carbon sequestration quantification, smart spraying, and biomass estimation, among others.

The new IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR) announces a special issue on Precision Agriculture and Forestry to examine topics incumbent to robots in agricultural and silvicultural settings.

We invite papers that exhibit theory, methods, and application of robotics in precision agriculture and precision forestry, including:

  • Biomass estimation via tree counting and mapping;
  • Fruit counting and yield estimation in orchards;
  • Autonomous sampling and environmental modeling for precision forestry and agriculture;
  • Datasets for agriculture and forestry;
  • Simultaneous localization and mapping techniques with applications to forestry and agriculture;
  • Robotic systems for individualized plant health monitoring and treatment;
  • Novel robotic mechanical and sensor designs for agricultural applications, extensively tested and validated in real-world field conditions;
  • Control applications in agriculture (fruit harvesting, bio-inspired locomotion).

We are especially interested in papers that address field-ready innovations moving from proof-of-concept to near deployed systems.

Papers for this special issue must provide technical descriptions of systems and results and analysis of experimentation. We invite discussion and analysis of the scientific impact of robots in agriculture and forestry, as well as novel methods and techniques for sensing, harvesting, mapping, and spraying. We welcome papers that demonstrate how theoretical methods perform in practical deployments, or that document how systems evolved through real-world iteration; lessons learned and challenges in development and operation are pertinent to this discussion. We encourage authors to review the T-FR information for authors for further information.

The T-FR encourages multimedia content and this issue seeks media illustrating novel approaches of precision agriculture and forestry with autonomous robots as well as open source software and public datasets related to robotics in agriculture and forestry settings.

Timeline:

February 20, 2026 – Manuscript submission cutoff

June 18 – July 16, 2026 – Reviews returned; manuscript revisions completed

July 16 – August 18, 2026 – Publication decisions and articles published online

August 18, 2026 – Special issue website finalized linking all articles

Authors interested can discuss submissions with the special issue editors:

Special Issue Editors:

Giuseppe Loianno [email protected]

Varun Murali [email protected]

Fiorella Sibona [email protected]

Fernando Cladera [email protected]

Salah Sukkarieh [email protected]

Vijay Kumar [email protected]