Remote Sensing and Digital Soil Mapping for Monitoring Land Degradation and Promoting Land Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Digital soil mapping and remote sensing techniques have transitioned from specialized applications to indispensable tools for assessing the health and degradation processes affecting soils. This progress, one the one hand, has been driven by the proliferation of satellite and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) data with different spatial scales and spectral resolutions. On the other hand, the computational capacity of geographic information systems and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to process large datasets have aided the remarkable development of cutting-edge and cost-effective applications in soil mapping and environmental modeling. In recent years, information about soil derived from remote sensing and digital soil mapping, together with legacy data from traditional soil surveys, have been used in geospatial systems and are very useful for decision-making, policy, and governance related to the protection and sustainable use of soils.

The increase in international collaborations/research projects that are developing digital soil mapping and remote sensing tools, alongside the build-up of largely accessible decision support systems, are producing continuously insights and innovation in these specific sectors of the soil science in light of the soil security demands around the world.

For this Special Issue, we seek contributions that deal with the extraction of spatial knowledge from digital soil mapping and remote sensing for feeding the models and simulations of appropriate decision support systems, aiming at monitoring land degradation and supporting soil protection and land sustainability policies.

Dr. Giuseppe Lo Papa
Dr. Giuliano Langella
Dr. Nada Mzid
Guest Editors

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