Future Prospects in Climate-Smart Soil Management
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land, Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 130
Special Issue Editors
Interests: remote sensing; soil science; environmental applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil plays a central role in food security, ecosystem resilience and climate regulation. In the face of accelerating climate change, land degradation, soil acidification, and increasing production demands, the need for climate-smart soil management has never been more urgent. Climate-smart approaches aim to enhance soil health, improve productivity, strengthen resilience to climate variability, and contribute to climate change mitigation through sustainable and adaptive management strategies.
Recent advances in digital soil mapping, Earth observation technologies and data-driven modeling are transforming our capacity to monitor and manage soil systems across spatial and temporal scales. Multi-sensor satellite platforms, machine learning techniques, and integrated modeling frameworks now enable quantitative assessment of key soil properties, such as moisture dynamics and nutrient variability.
Despite these advances, significant scientific and practical challenges remain, including addressing confounding environmental factors, improving model transferability, quantifying uncertainty, linking soil monitoring to management decisions, and ensuring scalability from field to global applications. Interdisciplinary collaboration across soil science, remote sensing, climate science, and policy is essential to advance climate-smart soil systems.
This Special Issue seeks high-quality contributions exploring innovative concepts, methodological advancements, and applied case studies in climate-smart soil management.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Digital soil mapping and predictive modeling of soil properties;
- Integration of optical and radar remote sensing for soil monitoring;
- Climate impacts on soil health and adaptive soil management strategies;
- Precision agriculture and variable-rate management;
- Multi-scale soil monitoring frameworks;
- Uncertainty assessment and model validation;
- Decision support systems for producers and land managers;
- Policy, governance, and socio-economic dimensions of soil resilience.
We welcome empirical research, conceptual and theoretical analyses, technological innovations, and interdisciplinary studies that advance the future of climate-smart soil management at local, regional, and global scales.
Dr. Shilan Felegari
Dr. Kaveh Ghahraman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate-smart soil management
- soil health
- digital soil mapping
- soil carbon dynamics
- soil degradation
- remote sensing
- earth observation
- machine learning
- soil resilience
- sustainable land systems
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