Table of Contents

Special Issue on Agriculture and the Environment

Advances in Control of Agriculture and the EnvironmentNick Sigrimis, Panos Antsaklis, and Peter P. Groumpos.....8
Data-Based Mechanistic Modeling, Forecasting, and ControlPeter Young and Arun Chotai.....14
Environment Control for Plants on Earth and in SpaceKostas G. Arvanitis and Alan E. Drysdale.....28
Mechatronic Systems, Communication, and Control in Precision AgricultureJosse De Baerdemaeker, Axel Munack, Herman Ramon, and Hermann Speckmann.....48
Intelligent Systems for Agriculture in JapanYasushi Hashimoto, Haruhiko Murase, Tetsuo Morimoto, and Toru Torii.....71