Cost-effective soil sensors and data analytics: The future of soil characterization

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-11-2023

Abstract

Assessments related to soil properties are becoming a key topic in land management. It allows for designing sustainable land policies devoted to correctly managing natural resources and achieving the Earth's surface degradation neutrality. After conducting these surveys, the information can be effectively transferred into Geographic Information Systems to map larger scales, reducing costs and time during the design of plans. This book chapter summarized all the challenges in soil property assessment using traditional laboratory approaches and includes preliminary State-of-the-art about sensing techniques, which may solve these shortcomings. This chapter has summarized a detailed literature survey on various proximal sensors such as Portable X-ray Fluorescence (PXRF) spectrometry, Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (DRS), and color sensor, for example, the Nix Pro used for rapid characterizations of multiple soil fertility parameters. The widely used advanced data mining approaches with these sensors are also discussed for rapid soil assessment.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Teaching in Land Management and Applied Geospatial Tools: The Use of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing Data to Design Advanced Technical Interventions for Sustainable Land Management

First Page

115

Last Page

135

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