The ‘4 per mille Soils for Food Security and Climate’ was launched at the COP21 with an
aspiration to increase global soil organic matter stocks by 4 per 1000 (or 0.4 %) per year as a …

… SUK YOUNG HONG; PISOOT VIJARNSORN; GAN LIN ZHANG; DOMINIQUE ARROUAYS;
HELAINA BLACK; PAVEL KRASILNIKOV; JAROSLAVA SOBOCA; JULIO ALEGRE; CARLOS …

The Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils has completed the first State of the World's
Soil Resources Report. Globally soil erosion was identified as the gravest threat, leading to …

Soil carbon is a key component of functional ecosystems and crucial for food, soil, water and
energy security. Climate change and altered land-use are having a great impact on soils. …

The knowledge on the spatial distribution of soil available water capacity at a regional or
national extent is essential, as soil water capacity is a component of the water and energy …

There is a growing body of knowledge on the spatial distribution of soil properties. Fewer
studies have investigated temporal trends in soil properties whereas such information is …

Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a key variable that bridges remote sensing observations to the
quantification of agroecosystem processes. In this study, we assessed the universality of the …

Legacy soil data have been produced over 70 years in nearly all countries of the world.
Unfortunately, data, information and knowledge are still currently fragmented and at risk of …

The polarimetric backscattering coefficients (vv-, hh-, hv-, and vh-polarizations) of a flooded
rice field are measured using L- and C-band ground-based polarimetric scatterometers. …

Vegetation water content (VWC) is an important biophysical parameter and has a significant
role in the retrieval of soil moisture using microwave remote sensing. Here, the radar …