Special session: Soil spectroscopy from soil spectral libraries to spatial mapping from space
| Chair: | Sabine Chabrillat, GFZ, German Research Centre For Geosciences, Germany, chabri@gfz-potsdam.de |
| Co-Chair: | Eyal Ben Dor, TAU, Tel Aviv University, Israel, bendor@post.tau.ac.il; |
| Johanna Wetterlind, SLU, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, Johanna.Wetterlind@slu.se |
With the upcoming availability of the next generation of high quality orbiting hyperspectral sensors, a major step toward improved regional soil mapping and monitoring and delivery of quantitative soil maps is expected. Simultaneously, the soil spectroscopy discipline is gaining momentum in digital soil mapping applications due to the recent availability of regional to global soil databases (LUCAS European-wide soil database), and of new imaging spectroscopy sensors that can be used in the laboratory, field or mounted on airborne platforms (UAVs and plane). Nevertheless, scientific bottlenecks are identified related to standards and protocols for soil reflectance measurements, spectral modeling methods, corrections for disturbing factors (water content, vegetation cover), moving from local to global mapping applications.
This session proposes a forum to present new developments in applications of reflectance and imaging spectroscopy in soil science, including soil spectral library developments and analyses, soil spectroscopy as an alternative to wet chemistry, advanced modeling of soil properties, near-field observations, model transfer from the field to airborne and space domain.
Keywords: Imaging spectroscopy, quantitative soil spectroscopy, soil science applications, digital soil mapping, soil monitoring, soil databases, organic carbon
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