EGU session: Remote Sensing and Soils
Raphael.Vis...@csiro.au
I bring to your attention the session on remote sensing at the EGU General Assembly 2012.
Flyer attached.
All the best,
Raphael
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Raphael VISCARRA ROSSEL | Principal Research Scientist CSIRO Land & Water | Soil and Landscapes Program | Room G3 Bruce E. Butler Laboratory | Clunies-Ross St Black Mountain | PO BOX 1666 ACT 2600 | t. +61 2 6246 5945 | www.csiro.au/people/Raphael.Viscarra-Rossel.html |Chair IUSS Working Group on Proximal Soil Sensing
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SSS 1.5 Remote Sensing and Soils - European Geoscience Union General Assembly, to be held in Vienna, Austria, on 22-27 April, 2012.
Within the field of Soil Science, Remote Sensing has a wide range of applications at various scales. In this session we will focus on soil mapping and soil property prediction beyond the plot scale.
Research has shown that remote sensing provides data (1) supporting the segmentation of the landscape into rather homogeneous soil-landscape units whose soil composition can be determined by sampling or that can serve as a source of secondary information, (2) allowing measurement or prediction of soil properties by means of physically-based and empirical methods, and (3) supporting spatial interpolation of sparsely sampled soil property data as a primary or secondary data source.
However, so far most methods for spectral and spatial prediction of soil properties have only proven to work under laboratory conditions or on plot scale. The next step would be to see how these methods can be extended to larger extents. This will require integration of different products and methods. The ability to apply remote sensing methods and improve coherence in soil and terrain mapping at various scales, is expected to be of great benefit to the soil science community. Therefore, in this session we aim to bring together scientists working on state of the art research related to using the full range of remote sensing techniques available for soil science. Within the Soil System Sciences programme group we will communicate recent advances in this field to the soil science community. Any questions about the session can be directed to the conveners: titia....@wur.nl<mailto:titia....@wur.nl>
Suggested topics are:
• Soil sampling strategies supported by remote sensing • Combined use of remote sensing products for soil property prediction
• Proximal Soil Sensing and Remote Sensing for soil mapping • Soil property mapping beyond plot scale
• Soil classification with use of remote sensing • Soil property mapping using remote sensing derived proxies