CALL FOR PAPERSrd

3 International Workshop on Smart Agriculture for the environmental
emergency (SmartAgr)
June 29th-July 2nd, 2024 (exact date to be defined)

Osaka International Convention Center
Osaka, Japan
https://smartagr.santannapisa.it/
In conjunction with IEEE Int. Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2024)

The global environmental emergency, due to rapid climate change, is having a strong impact on humanactivities and life, as confirmed by the recent United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 28)
conference, held at the end of 2023. Agriculture, as one of the main human activities, is directly involved inmeeting the needs of the growing population, it is responsible of around the 70% of total water consumption
and has heavy effects on the environment and on the land use, increasing the pollution of natural resources(air, water, soil). Recently, agriculture was addressed by a technology evolution where the new paradigm of
Smart Agriculture guided the introduction of ICT technologies to sustain and make more efficient theagriculture production. Currently, the global environmental emergency solicits a further evolution represented
by the Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) to provide scientific and technological solutions suitable to makeagriculture more resilient to climate changes, to better address the issues related to the protection of naturalresources and to the increased food needs facing off the shortage of soil.
This requires an interdisciplinary approach in the context of ICT technologies for different types of applications(smart monitoring, smart water management, agrochemicals applications, disease management, smart
harvesting, supply chain management, smart agricultural practices..). For instance, IoT provides the tools formonitoring crops, equipment, vehicles, animals, and resources, and different technologies such ascommunications technologies, embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, data analytics, cloud/fogcomputing, Artificial Intelligence are required to collect, manage, share, analyse, and utilize the collected data.
Smart Agriculture can drive the evolution of the agriculture, improving the productivity and the environmental
sustainability, preserving natural resources (soils, water, and biodiversity) and reorienting the focus on theThree Pillars of CSA as stated by the FAO: sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes;
adapting and building resilience to climate change; reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions, wherepossible. These pillars outline the direction of action regarding the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031 basedon the Four Betters: better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life for all, leaving noone behind.

The 3rd International Workshop on Smart Agriculture for the environmental emergency (SmartAgr)
investigates the design, implementation, and assessment of innovative technological solutions, including newparadigms, methods, systems, and tools to ensure the implementation of Smart Agriculture to face off theenvironmental emergency.
SmartAgr is an interdisciplinary, multi-national initiative to invite for participation both representatives ofacademia and industry across the world interested in discussing on the last evolution of Smart Agriculture witha focus on the environmental emergency to meet the aforementioned challenges. From this point of view theworkshop can provide a place where to profitably exchange ideas, present applications and solutions taking
advantage from the heterogeneity of the contributors to encourage the cross-fertilization of ideas andcompetencies.
The papers should address forefront research and development in Smart Agriculture with a particular focus on,
but is not limited to, the following topics:
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Pervasive computing and embedded systems solutions enabling Smart Agriculture to face off
environmental emergency.
Artificial intelligence in Smart Agriculture with attention to the environmental emergency.
Communications and networking technologies supporting Smart Agriculture systems and solutions topreserve natural resources and improve productivity.
New solutions, systems, models, applications to reduce CO2 emissions.
Technologies and applications to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and resilience toclimate changes.
Technologies and application to preserve natural resources (soil, water, and biodiversity).

Each accepted paper requires a full SMARCOMP registration and will be included and indexed in theIEEE digital libraries (Xplore) and in Scopus Database.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Extended submission Deadline:
Acceptance Notification:
Camera Ready Submission:

April 12, 2024
April 30, 2024
May 10, 2024

Organizers and Workshop Chairs
Anna Lina Ruscelli, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Gabriele Cecchetti, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy
Technical Program Committee
Mohammad Banat, Jordan University of Technology, Irbid, Jordan
Piero Castoldi Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy,
Carmelo Di Franco, Aitronik, Italy
Anna Förster, University of Bremen, Germany
Anil Kumar Gupta, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune University Campus, India
Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China
Mukhtar Mohamed Edris Mahmoud, University of Kassala, Sudan and Puntland State University, Somalia
Federica Matteoli, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Joel Onyango, Climate Resilient Economies Programme, African Centre for Technology Studies, Kenya
Ana Paula Silva, Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco - Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Portugal
Daniele Sarri, University of Florence, Italy
Nicola Silvestri, University of Pisa, Italy
Lina Stankovic, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom