iSOIL: exploring the soil as the basis for sustainable crop production and precision farming

F.M. van Egmond; A.-K. Nüsch; U. Werban; U. Sauer; P. Dietrich

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iSOIL: exploring the soil as the basis for sustainable crop production and precision farming

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F.M. van Egmond

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Pages:: 493–499

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789086866649_060

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Precision farming is based on the concept of optimising crop production and increasing profit margins by taking into account the spatial within-field variation in soil, soil moisture and other environmental conditions that influence crop growth. To be able to adjust crop and soil management to this natural variation, the type and extent of the variation should be known to the farmer. Ideally in a format that enables him and his machinery to adapt his crop management to the relevant variation in such a way that he can optimise his crop production process in an easy and semi-automated way. This requires reliable and coherent high resolution digital maps of relevant variation such as soil texture, soil organic matter, soil nutrients, soil moisture, slope, aspect, compaction (risk) and erosion risk. The focus of the iSOIL project is on improving fast and reliable mapping of soil properties, soil functions and soil degradation threats. This requires the improvement as well as the integration of geophysical and spectroscopic measurement techniques in combination with advanced soil sampling approaches, digital soil mapping and pedophysical approaches. The outputs of iSOIL encompass methodologies, reliabilities, standards and possibilities for mapping all the above mentioned and can therefore be of great value to precision agriculture. The project aims to supply tools and standards for mapping e.g. to precision agriculture end-users to enable fast, easy and reliable mapping of all relevant soil, hydrological and environmental parameters. The resulting soil property maps can e.g. be used for precision agriculture applications such as variable planting distance of potatoes, variable liming and variable fertiliser application. The soil degradation threats studies, e.g. erosion, compaction and soil organic matter decline can be used to improve the sustainability of current farming practices to ensure fertile and sufficient quality lands for crop production in the future.

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Precision agriculture '09

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2009

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