Soil Sensing and Mapping for a Sustainable Future
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 4376
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil sensing; data fusion; soil spectroscopy; digital soil mapping; optical remote sensing
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Interests: sensor-data fusion; soil spectroscopy; proximal soil sensing; digital soil mapping; sustainable agriculture
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2. Institute of Agricultural Remote Sensing and Information Technology Application, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: pedometrics; digital soil mapping; proximal soil sensing; soil spectroscopy; spatial predictive modelling; soil biogeochemical modelling
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Interests: remote sensing; digital soil mapping; pedometrics; biogeochemical modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The accurate mapping and monitoring of soil information is of great importance for decision making in soil management, precision farming, and food security to achieve relevant sustainable development goals. The increasingly available remote (e.g., optical remote sensing, passive microwave, and radar) and proximal sensing (e.g., visible-near-infrared, mid-infrared, portable X-ray fluorescence, and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy) data offer a valuable basis for monitoring and updating soil information. In the framework of digital soil mapping, these data can be combined with other environmental covariates (e.g., topography, climate, parent material, vegetation, human activity) to map the soil properties with high spatial resolution (from 10 to 90 m) at scales ranging from fields to landscapes, regions, countries, continents, and the globe.
In this Special Issue, seek original scientific contributions on new methods for the estimation and mapping of biological, physical, and chemical soil properties based on multisource spatial–temporal data. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Visible-near-infrared spectroscopy;
- Mid-infrared spectroscopy;
- Proximal, airborne, and satellite remote sensing;
- Sensor-data fusion;
- Space–time modeling;
- Measuring and mapping of soil quality or threats;
- Quality assessment of the digital soil-mapping products;
- Novel methods and models for evaluating soil quality and health potential;
- Applications of data mining in soil-related ecosystem monitoring and soil management.
Prof. Dr. Zhou Shi
Dr. Wenjun Ji
Dr. Songchao Chen
Dr. Yongsheng Hong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- soil monitoring
- digital soil mapping
- remote sensing
- proximal soil sensing
- spatial modeling
- machine/deep learning
- sustainable management
- climate change