The study of banana herbs and fruits is rarely conducted using multidisciplinary approaches. However, a multidisciplinary approach could be useful for gaining information on many aspects, including remote sensing, biodiversity and biogeography, owing to the uniqueness of bananas. Prof. Dr. Fenny Martha Dwivany and her colleagues review a study on banana herbs from an Indonesian perspective. It starts by obtaining information related to firmness, peel’s colour change, water content and sugar content then proceeds to find the relation between remote sensing (RS) technologies of all these biophysical characteristics and genomics, transcriptomic and metabolomics. Besides this, geospatial sciences, such as geographic information systems (GIS), may help visualise biogeographical factors. Furthermore, the plant canopy, health and plant disease, and the herbs’ water content, analysed through satellite images and aerial photos of drones, helps describe the banana distribution in Indonesia, at both the local and regional levels. In the end, the integration of these methods can foster advanced studies on bananas, even making it possible for its scope to extend to industries, food technology, post-harvest, and eco-tourism.

Article Citation:
Wikantika, K., Ghazali, M.F., Dwivany, F.M., Novianti, C., Yayusman, L.F., Sutanto, A. (2022). Integrated Studies of Banana on Remote Sensing, Biogeography, and Biodiversity: An Indonesian Perspective. Diversity. 14, 277. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14040277

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