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EDITORIAL article

Front. Soil Sci.
Sec. Pedometrics
Volume 4 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsoil.2024.1536797
This article is part of the Research Topic Digital soil mapping using electromagnetic sensors View all 5 articles

Editorial: Digital Soil Mapping Using Electromagnetic Sensors

Provisionally accepted
Triven Koganti Triven Koganti 1*Philippe De Smedt Philippe De Smedt 2,3Mohammad Farzamian Mohammad Farzamian 4Maria Knadel Maria Knadel 5John Triantafilis John Triantafilis 6Anders Vest Christiansen Anders Vest Christiansen 7Mogens Humlekrog Greve Mogens Humlekrog Greve 1
  • 1 Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Tjele, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
  • 2 Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
  • 3 Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
  • 4 INIAV, IP - Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Portugal, Oeiras, Portugal
  • 5 Geopark Vestjylland, Skærum Møllevej 4, Vemb, Denmark
  • 6 Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand
  • 7 Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

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    Recent technological advances have led to the development of new instruments that measure 17 different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. In addition, significant cost reduction, and 18 increased robustness are seen for the existing ones making them more affordable and easier to use 19 (Adamchuk et al., 2004;Viscarra Rossel et al., 2011). Proximal soil sensors are increasingly being 20 adopted to augment labor-and cost-intensive field and laboratory procedures by allowing rapid 21 estimation and high-resolution mapping of soil properties via proxy measurements. Information 22 collected with these soil sensors supports soil resource management, which is crucial to meet the 23 growing population demand sustainably. In short, proximal soil sensing offers the potential for 24 non-invasive soil exploration, whereby near-continuous spatiotemporal information can be 25 collected. Particularly in line with global efforts to preserve and optimize soil health, the relevance 26 of this approach will only increase with time. As electromagnetic soil sensing is often fragmented across various scientific disciplines and 28 applications this special issue aims to bring together cutting-edge and breakthrough research and 29 identify key perspectives in the field. Four papers are combined that topically revolve around:

    Keywords: Proximal soil sensing, agrogeophysics, Pedometrics, Non-destructive methods, Soil Science

    Received: 29 Nov 2024; Accepted: 04 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Koganti, De Smedt, Farzamian, Knadel, Triantafilis, Christiansen and Greve. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Triven Koganti, Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Tjele, 8830, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

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