Analizando las posibles aplicaciones de los drones y los satélites en la enseñanza de Fisiología Vegetal.

Summary: The year 2021 has been officially marked as the start of the “Industry 5.0” era by the European Commission. This fifth technological revolution can revolutionize the agricultural industry by a) facilitating the integration of new technologies and b) improving the efficiency of agricultural operations. In this sense, drones and satellites are two of the many technologies envisioned as they are paving the way towards precision and sustainable agriculture: thus adding substantial value to crop data acquisition, devising yield simulations, predicting harvest and irrigation periods, eradicating metrological data obstacles, etc. The continuous technical and pragmatic improvements of both, throughout the last three decades, have contributed considerably to the maturity of these technologies, thus anticipating their effective integration into agriculture. Their applications are summarized in Table 1. Given the great importance of these new and proactive technologies, it is essential to educate and reinforce students so that they take full advantage of the potential of today’s agriculture, thus guaranteeing sustainability.