Integrating Remotely Sensed Platforms in Soil and Water Conservation Interface—Practices and Methods

Dear Colleagues,

Agricultural lands face severe degradation processes, due to the growing demand for crop production, that diminishing soil ecosystem, and quality. Most of these processes are undetectable over short periods leading toward unforeseen agronomic challenges. Concurrently, there is a vast development in new cutting-edge remote sensing (RS) and image processing technologies that provides novel pathways towards cost-effective monitoring of continuous soil physical and biogeochemical characteristics.

Despite the importance of implementing soil conservation measures, the efficiency of these measures is unknown due to the lack of innovative monitoring methods. Multi-scale RS techniques provide a comprehensive capacity for monitoring soil-water-plant interactions utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), airborne, and spaceborne RS techniques.

We are looking for innovative research studies that integrate novel RS approaches and platforms, encompassing spectral and morphological traits, to record soil conservation efficiency in agricultural lands. This issue will collect insights and identify challenges and opportunities to develop new practices and methods to assess the efficiency of soil conservation measures.

Dr. Eli Argaman
Guest Editor

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