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Remote sensing soil processes and health for improved Carbon sequestration

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Project Description

Soils are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems and provide multiple ecosystem services to humans, including the provision of food from agriculture. Soil organic carbon (SOC) loss due to intensive agricultural practices, and climate change is a major threat to global food security. Current field-based approaches provide a limited understanding of the nature, scale and spatial variability of soil carbon loss, limiting our ability to accurately assess the impacts of climate change and farming practices in a way that will mitigate against SOC loss. We aim to pump prime a new Horizon Pillar 2 project with French partners at the University of Lyon to develop, test and employ state-of-the art remote sensing tools that may be applied to monitor spatial and temporal patterns in soil health, facilitating novel agricultural practices, improving SOC sequestration and delivering climate change mitigation and adaptation targets.

Project Acronym ReSSPHICS
Status Project Complete
Value £9,434.00
Project Dates Dec 1, 2021 - Mar 17, 2022

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