Editorial: Advanced technologies of UAV application in crop pest, disease and weed control

Front Plant Sci. 2023 Aug 16:14:1253841. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1253841. eCollection 2023.

Ruirui Zhang^{1

2}, Andrew Hewitt³, Longlong Li^{1

2}, Huizhu Yuan⁴, J Connor Ferguson⁵, Liping Chen^{1

2}

¹ National Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China.
² National Center for International Research on Agricultural Aerial Application Technology, Beijing, China.
³ Centre for Pesticide Application and Safety, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁴ State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China.
⁵ Sesaco Corporation, Austin, TX, United States.

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Keywords: UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle); aerial spray application; chemical application; plant protection; remote sensing.

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We acknowledge support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 32071907).