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Contemporary Use of Sensors for Soil Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment in the Context of Climate Change

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There are ample opportunities to use newly introduced several low-cost digital sensing devices and technologies in soil testing and resource management services. These advanced sensors may help judicious fertilizer recommendations for nutrient-exhaustive cropping systems in different countries. It would be more convenient for the analyst, users, and government to capture the process and disseminate the required data or decisions in a time-saving manner. Farmers can get soil test reports from the laboratory in a short time. These efforts would encourage farmers of remote areas to test soil, particularly in tropical countries with more prevalent nutrient loss. This chapter discusses some low-cost proximal soil sensing devices like portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, color sensors, smartphone-based sensors, their operational theory, and contemporary uses with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital soil mapping techniques in soil characterization and mapping.

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Dasgupta, S., Lavanya, V., Chakraborty, S., Ray, D.P. (2024). Contemporary Use of Sensors for Soil Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment in the Context of Climate Change. In: Pathak, H., Chatterjee, D., Saha, S., Das, B. (eds) Climate Change Impacts on Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 78. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7935-6_7

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