Predictive Soil Mapping Contributing to Sustainable Soil Management
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 9 July 2024 | Viewed by 1402
Special Issue Editors
Interests: predictive soil mapping; pedology; reflectance spectroscopy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
(1) Introduction, including scientific background and highlighting the importance of this research area.
Renewed interest in soil mapping and the development of predictive soil mapping tools has greatly increased available soil information. This increased soil information presents the opportunity to improve our understanding of soil-landscape dynamics and make better land use decisions.
Pressing land use decisions, such as where to optimize carbon sequestration efforts and how to more efficiently apply nutrients and optimize land for food production, all depend on detailed soil information. A number of ecological goods and services are also closely tied to soil properties, and more soil information can help ensure that these ecological goods and services are maintained or enhanced.
Predictive soil mapping has an instrumental role to play in ensuring that the necessary soil information is available to achieve these goals.
(2) Aim of the Special Issue and how the subject relates to the journal scope.
The aim of this Special Issue will be to highlight advances in predictive soil mapping, and applications of soil mapping tools and datasets to improve understanding of soil, agronomic, ecological, and land use dynamics.
(3) Suggested themes and article types for submissions.
- Predictive soil mapping methodology development;
- Applications of predictive soil mapping to better understand soil-landscape dynamics;
- Use of predictive soil mapping datasets for agronomic decision making;
- Predictive soil mapping for ecological goods and services mapping;
- Use of predictive soil mapping for land use decision making.
Dr. Preston T. Sorenson
Dr. Kwabena Abrefa Nketia
Guest Editors
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