Remote Sensing for Soil Properties and Plant Ecosystems

Dear Colleagues,

Remote observations of various soil properties at different spatial and temporal scales currently represent one of the fastest-growing observational technologies, leading to the rapid development of numerous scientific fields. This is due to many reasons, including the constantly growing knowledge around the importance and complexity of soils and the processes occurring in them and the awareness of various threats to soils caused mainly, but not only, by anthropogenic factors and climate change. Another reason for the growing interest in remote soil observations is the rapid development of remote soil observation methods in the last decade. These apply all kinds of remote observations, namely optical, infrared, and microwave, performed from all platforms, particularly satellite ones, and conducted from unmanned aerial vehicles. Recently, satellites and satellite sensors have achieved the previously unattainable level of technological sophistication that results in an unprecedented quality and availability of remote sensing imagery, which allows for advanced soil research from a distance. This leads to the development of multi-sensors and multi-scale remote sensing observations. Additionally, the fusion of soil proximal sensing measurements, e.g., X-ray fluorescence, reflectance spectroscopy, electromagnetic induction, and field magnetometry with remote sensing observations, has recently become an important topic. Last but not least, another factor stimulating the interest in remote soil studies is the recent rapid development in this field of analytical and computational methods, among other advanced data integration and artificial intelligence methods.

Therefore, I invite authors to send submissions on all aspects of contemporary soil research, including plant ecosystems, carried out using remote sensing methods. In particular, those of great practical importance or related to climate change are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Jarosław Zawadzki
Guest Editor

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