Advances in Remote Sensing Agronomic Application for Mapping and Modeling Soil Properties
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Precision and Digital Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 234
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geographic information system; remote sensing; land planning; agroecology; soil quality
Interests: agroecology; crop ecology; land planning; resource use in agriculture; bioenergy for and from agriculture; bio-base economy; circular economy
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Dear Colleagues,
Soil plays a crucial role as a natural resource that sustains life on Earth, providing a wide range of ecosystem services, such as the production of food, recycling of nutrients, sequestration of carbon, and provision of habitat. Global warming, land use and land cover changes, and unsustainable agricultural practises contribute to accelerated soil quality loss. In spatial explicit analysis related to both agricultural and environmental issues, soil is one of the most important criteria to be considered. Although the assessment of soil properties is key to monitor soil health, data availability is scarce. Accordingly, in recent years, the potential of modern technologies and advanced methods like remote sensing has been widely investigated for mapping and monitoring soil properties. However, the obtained accuracies in previous research have varied, largely depending on various factors such as the spatial/spectral resolutions of sensors, the used methodology, and the study sites. In this context, the identification of new, reliable remote sensing techniques to monitor soil health and model soil dynamics at different spatial scale becomes extremely important. We kindly invite authors to submit original research articles or review articles on topics related to the mapping and modelling of soil salinity, organic matter content, moisture, and all other soil properties using remote sensing technology.
Dr. Anna Rita Bernadette Cammerino
Prof. Dr. Massimo Monteleone
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- remote sensing
- mapping soil properties
- modelling soil properties
- agro-environmental application
- multicriteria analysis
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