Earth Observation of Soils: Digital Mapping in Sustainable Land Management provides an overview of the latest techniques and Earth observation technologies applied to soil management with a view to improving sustainable land management (SLM). The book details the applications of Earth Observation data for SLM by evaluating their uses in managed and natural environments under different uses and risks (such as natural disasters and climate change). It covers a wide range of soil types and considers increasingly important topics such as soil quality and environmental health, soil organic carbon, and climate change adaptation, among others.
This book offers up-to-date applications of Earth Observation technologies and techniques that are ideal for postgraduates, researchers and academics using remote sensing data and geoinformation technologies for soil monitoring.
- Focuses on a variety of interdisciplinary applications using Earth observation data and technologies to address challenges in soil monitoring
- Details the methodology of implementing a variety of techniques in sustainable land management
- Includes Earth observation techniques for monitoring climate change adaptation and natural disaster mitigation
Section A: Introduction and Current State of Earth Observation
Applications to Soil Management
1. An Overview of Sustainable Land
Management using Earth Observation: Theory and Practice
2. An Overview of
Earth Observation Data and Platforms for Soil Analysis
Section B: Earth Observation Tools in Management of Different Land Uses
3.
The Role of Earth Observation in Management of Croplands (Agricultural
Practices)
4. The Role of Earth Observation in Grassland Management
5. The
Role of Earth Observation in Forest Management
6. Operational Earth
Observation Tools for Sustainable Land Management in Croplands, Grasslands,
Shrublands and Forests
Section C: Earth Observation of Soil Modelling
7. Soil Mapping and Modelling
Using Earth Observation
8. Integration of Earth Observation in Soil
Management by Improving Soil Quality And Environmental Health
9. Soil
Organic Carbon and Earth Observation Calibration, Testing, Validation and
Extrapolation
10. Climate Change Mitigation and Earth Observation
11. Earth
Observation for Climate Change Adaptation and Natural Disaster Mitigation
Floods, Drought Monitoring and Earth Observation Data
12. Earth Observation
for Climate Change Adaptation and Natural Disaster Mitigation - Land
Degradation and Desertification Mapping
13. Operational Earth Observation
Tools for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Section D: The Role of Earth Observation in Agricultural Decision Making
14. Sustainable Land Management Under Different Decision Making and Related
Policies
Section E: Challenges and Future Needs
15. Challenges and Future Aspects:
Potential for Earth Observation in More Efficient Soil Management
Dr. Mario Guevara is Professor of Geostatistics and a research associate of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and is an expert on digital soil mapping. He completed his PhD studies in the University of Delaware (USA) developing soil organic carbon maps across Mexico and the United States using machine learning and remote sensing. Mario has postdoctoral experience working on selected topics of digital agronomy in the University of California, and in the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Salinity lab. Since 2017, Mario has served as the Pillar 4 (soil data and soil information) representative for the Global Soil Partnership of the Food and Agriculture Organization and is a member of the Science Leadership Group of the North American Carbon Program. His research interests are rooted in the spatial and temporal variability of soil properties, soil functions and soil degradation signals from the plot to the continental scale. Dr. Zucca is Associate Professor of Pedology at the University of Sassari, Italy. Since 2015 he has also been a Soil Conservation and Land Management Scientist at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas. At ICARDA he coordinated research projects in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tunisia, and Morocco and contributed to projects in Senegal, Mauritania, Pakistan and Jordan. He also acted as ICARDAs focal person in FAOs Global Soil Partnership and in WOCAT (World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies). During his 20 years of research he has been involved in several international projects, particularly on soil and land degradation, desertification, and sustainable land management . His interdisciplinary scientific interests mainly focus on: integrated assessment of land degradation and SLM; survey, mapping, and evaluation of land and soil; and soil formation and development. He is expert in GIS and applied geomatics to land studies. Dr. Prem Chandra Pandey received his PhD degree (2015) from Centre for Landscape and Climate Research (CLCR) Department of Geography, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP). He received his BSc degree in Botany (Hons.) from Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (2005), M.Sc. degree in Environmental Sciences (2007) from Institute of Sciences, BHU and M.Tech in Remote Sensing (2009) from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra Ranchi, India. Dr Pandey is currently working as Assistant Professor in Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida, India. He did his Post-Doctoral from Department of Geography and Human Environment, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University Israel (2016-2017). Dr Pandey has worked as a National Post- Doctoral Fellow with Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (IESD), Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Varanasi. He worked on remote sensing applications as Professional Research fellow in National Urban Information System (NUIS) funded by National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) Government of India at BIT Mesra Ranchi. Dr. Pandey has been a recipient of several prestigious International and National awards including Commonwealth Fellowship UK, INSPIRE fellowship, Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) Government of India, University Grant Commission (UGC) fellowships, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)-NPDF and IT Merit awards from Government of India. He has authored 30+ research articles published in international peer-reviewed journal articles, Edited 2 Books, 9 book chapters and presented his work in several conferences. Additionally, he is also a member of Indian Society of Geomatics (ISG), Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), SPIE, and Association of American Geographers (AAG). His research interests include forestry, environmental pollutant modeling, urban studies and agricultural studies.
