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Remote Sensing Technology and Its Applications in Plant Pathology

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Early disease detection and plant health monitoring is a critical tool for reducing the spread of diseases. Thanks to its great importance in detecting infection before it occurs on plants, remote sensing is one of the modern science developments in the monitoring of plant pathogens. Remote sensing techniques will be a very useful tool for greatly tailoring the diagnostic results. Such innovative technologies are unparalleled instruments for making agriculture healthier and more sustainable and for reducing the unnecessary use of pesticides in crop safety. This chapter discusses the importance of remote sensing in the control of plant disease and its diagnostic methods, and some examples where remote sensing was used to monitor plant diseases. Finally, this chapter discusses the basic principles of hyper-spectrum measurements and the various types of hyperspectral sensors for plant defense and plant disease detection in various ranges.

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  1. National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt

    Ghada A. Khdery

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  1. Plant Pathology, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India

    Krishna P. Singh

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

    Shamarao Jahagirdar

  3. Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Birinchi Kumar Sarma

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Khdery, G.A. (2021). Remote Sensing Technology and Its Applications in Plant Pathology. In: Singh, K.P., Jahagirdar, S., Sarma, B.K. (eds) Emerging Trends in Plant Pathology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6275-4_30

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