AI-Driven Plant Disease and Pest Surveillance: Deep Learning, IoT, and Next-Generation Crop Protection
Parshuram Sial, Ashok Kumar Choudhary, Sneh Gangwar, Sridhar Krishnaswami, Subha Loganathan & K. Dhinesh Babu · Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology · 2026
Plant disease and pest surveillance is undergoing a profound technological transition. Conventional crop protection has historically depended on episodic field scouting, expert visual inspection, and broad-spectrum preventative spraying, all of which are constrained by labour int...