The new map includes areas of shallow peat soils, which, crucially, also contain large stocks of soil carbon. As recommended by the United Nations Global Peatlands Initiative, the researchers, from ...

The USDA-NRCS has created the Web Soil Survey (WSS) as a clearance house for soil survey data from the Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO). Currently, there are data available for almost all ...

A team of researchers has developed an approach that maps the soil salt content around the world with an exceptional detail of 10 meters. This advance tackles the pressing need for accurate ...

Hyderabad: An ISRO-National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) study has combined satellite imagery, field-tested soil samples and machine learning to map soil health across farmland in Indukurpet mandal of ...