Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing in Soil Environment Monitoring 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The monitoring of environmental features is a key issue in the sustainable management of land resources, where the increasing availability of temporal and spatial soil data plays a fundamental role. Remote sensing and GIS (geographic information system) applications enable efficient handling of these data with the aim of developing predictive and sound models to reduce land degradation and soil erosion. There is a need to further improve studies of soil dynamics in different environmental biosystems to gain more insights into erosion processes and the effectiveness of conservation measures that contribute to the currently perceived new and modern sustainable practices.

In addition, new insights and perspective studies on soil dynamics offer great potential to better understand how soil erosion is related to natural disasters such as landslides, floods, slope instability, biodiversity loss, and climate change.

The aim of this Special Issue is to contribute to a better description of the most popular research direction in spatial data analysis of soil, focusing on the following topics:

• Applications of remote sensing and GIS to detect and monitor soil properties;
• Land use and sustainable soil management practices;
• Linking soil erosion and natural disasters (e.g., landslides, floods, earthquakes);
• Modelling sediment transport in rivers;
• Transport of river sediments modeling;
• Monitoring and assessment of soil erosion in agriculture and forestry.

Dr. Antonio Ganga
Dr. Blaž Repe
Dr. Mario Elia
Guest Editors

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