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The DIGISOIL team intends to integrate and improve in situ and proximal measurement technologies for the assessment of soil properties and soil degradation indicators, going from the sensing technologies to their integration and their application in (digital) soil mapping (DSM). In addition, our enterprises experience will allow taking into account the feasibility of such developments based on economical constraints, reliability of the results and needs of the DSM community. In order to assess and prevent soil degradation and to benefit from the different ecological, economical and historical functions of the soil in a sustainable way, there is an obvious need for high resolution and accurate maps of soil properties. The core objective of the project is to explore and exploit new capabilities of advanced geophysical technologies for answering this societal demand.
To this aim, DIGISOIL addresses four issues covering technological, soil science and economic aspects :
(i) the validation of geophysical (in situ, proximal and airborne) technologies and integrated pedo-geophysical inversion techniques (mechanistic data fusion),
(ii) the relation between the geophysical parameters and the soil properties,
(iii) the integration of the derived soil properties for mapping soil functions and soil threats,
(iv) the evaluation, standardisation and sub-industrialization of the proposed methodologies, including technical and economical studies.
The DIGISOIL project is financed by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, Area “Environment”, Activity 6.3 “Environmental Technologies”.