30.07.2021

"Recent Advances in Soil Monitoring and Mapping in Agriculture Systems"

Agronomy opens new special issue

Rapid population growth means that more food will be required to meet the demands of growing populations in an era of increasing climate uncertainty and environmental degradation. In this fast-changing world, and given the urgent need to ensure food security and nutrition, understanding and attaining sustainable soil management has never been more important. In this regard, soil mapping and monitoring provide the necessary information to sustain food safety and security.

Conventional methods for mapping and monitoring soil properties involve regular field visits to collect soil samples followed by laboratory analyses and are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and expensive. In recent decades, soil mapping and monitoring practices have largely transitioned toward the use of digital soil mapping approaches as a means to reduce the cost and time required to develop soil maps and leverage advances in modern technologies related to computing, remote sensing, UAVs, geostatistics, machine learning, and geographical information systems.

Novel methods, new applications, comparative analyses of models, case studies, and state-of-the-art review papers on topics pertaining to advances in soil monitoring and mapping in agriculture systems of agronomy are particularly welcomed.

Please check:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agronomy/special_issues/SoilMonitoring_Mapping