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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The journal Sensors is currently running a Special Issue entitled "<b>Advanced Sensor Technologies for Crop Phenotyping Application</b>", where I am serving as a Guest Editor for
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Special Issue: Advanced Sensor Technologies for Crop Phenotyping Application<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/RS_CPA" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/RS_CPA</a>   <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The submission deadline is
<b>31 August 2019</b>. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Sensors is covered by leading indexing services, including the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Chemical Abstracts, INSPEC, and CAB Abstracts.
 The latest Impact Factor for the year 2017 is 2.475, and the five-year Impact Factor is 3.014. The website can be reached at:
<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors" target="_blank">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Sensors is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open
 access is supported by the authors and their institutes. Article Processing Charges of CHF 1800 (APC) apply to accepted papers. For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/instructions" target="_blank">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/instructions</a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Once over 20 papers are published in this Special Issue, one of the published papers will be selected to receive an
<b>Special Issue Best Paper Award</b> by our Evaluation Committee based on originality, quality, contribution to the field, and presentation. The authors of the winning paper of the Special Issue Best Paper Award for 'Advanced Sensor Technologies for Crop Phenotyping
 Application' will be given a Certificate and the corresponding author will be granted a free feature paper to Sensors for next submission.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">We look forward to hearing from you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Best wishes,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Sindhuja Sankaran, Assistant Professor<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Washington State University, PO Box 646120, Pullman WA 99164<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<a href="https://labs.wsu.edu/sankaran-phenomics/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563c1">https://labs.wsu.edu/sankaran-phenomics/</span></a>
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