Modern techniques for monitoring wind soil erosion

The article presents a scientific literature review in the field of modern methods of monitoring wind erosion of soils such as: visual indicators of erosion, erosion bridge, close-range photogrammetry, cesium-137 and remote sensing cover. The brief description of each method, advantages and disadvan...

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Main Authors: A. Yu. Romanovskaya, I. Yu. Savin
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute 2020-12-01
Series:Бюллетень Почвенного института им. В.В. Докучаева
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Online Access:https://bulletin.esoil.ru/jour/article/view/611
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spelling doaj-5198e68e9f8143d3a31257add94a900a2021-07-28T13:05:30ZrusV.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science InstituteБюллетень Почвенного института им. В.В. Докучаева0136-16942312-42022020-12-01010411015710.19047/0136-1694-2020-104-110-157518Modern techniques for monitoring wind soil erosionA. Yu. Romanovskaya0I. Yu. Savin1Federal Research Centre V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science InstituteFederal Research Centre V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute; Belgorod State UniversityThe article presents a scientific literature review in the field of modern methods of monitoring wind erosion of soils such as: visual indicators of erosion, erosion bridge, close-range photogrammetry, cesium-137 and remote sensing cover. The brief description of each method, advantages and disadvantages, conditions and limitations of their applicability are given. When choosing the method, it is necessary to take into account the monitoring conditions, the area of the territory under consideration and the scale of research, time frames, financial and labor resources. It has been established that the most relevant, economically justified and promising, especially on large territories, are the remote sensing methods, which allow monitoring on different scales, and not only estimating the erosion activity, but also predicting it, thus providing the parties concerned with the necessary information for making right, prompt and timely economic decisions, aimed both at combating wind erosion and elimination of its consequences, and for organizing preventive measures as well. To improve the effectiveness of these methods it is also necessary to create databases, expand and accumulate soil information that can help verify, refine, process and calibrate the satellite data obtained. In order to understand aeolian processes and dust particle transport mechanisms one should create integrated methods that include remote sensing data, meteorological data, on the basis of which the improved models and maps would be developed, and erosion processes would be predicted. The scientific literature is mostly devoted to the interpretation of wind erosion in arid and semi-arid zones. The possibility of satellite monitoring of soil erosion in arable fields remains poorly studied. There are also practically no research results available on the transport of chemicals with micro-particles due to wind erosion. Both in Russia and abroad the attempts are made in soil erosion modelling, but the quality of the models is very limited by the lack of field data required for their calibration and verification. Eroded soils in the country are still identified using ground-based methods. However, field studies can only be conducted in a very limited area, in a few key points, and as a matter of fact it is quite complicated to conduct field studies on actively used agricultural lands.https://bulletin.esoil.ru/jour/article/view/611soil deflationsatellite monitoringsoil degradationsoil research methods
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Modern techniques for monitoring wind soil erosion
Бюллетень Почвенного института им. В.В. Докучаева
soil deflation
satellite monitoring
soil degradation
soil research methods
author_facet A. Yu. Romanovskaya
I. Yu. Savin
author_sort A. Yu. Romanovskaya
title Modern techniques for monitoring wind soil erosion
title_short Modern techniques for monitoring wind soil erosion
title_full Modern techniques for monitoring wind soil erosion
title_fullStr Modern techniques for monitoring wind soil erosion
title_full_unstemmed Modern techniques for monitoring wind soil erosion
title_sort modern techniques for monitoring wind soil erosion
publisher V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute
series Бюллетень Почвенного института им. В.В. Докучаева
issn 0136-1694
2312-4202
publishDate 2020-12-01
description The article presents a scientific literature review in the field of modern methods of monitoring wind erosion of soils such as: visual indicators of erosion, erosion bridge, close-range photogrammetry, cesium-137 and remote sensing cover. The brief description of each method, advantages and disadvantages, conditions and limitations of their applicability are given. When choosing the method, it is necessary to take into account the monitoring conditions, the area of the territory under consideration and the scale of research, time frames, financial and labor resources. It has been established that the most relevant, economically justified and promising, especially on large territories, are the remote sensing methods, which allow monitoring on different scales, and not only estimating the erosion activity, but also predicting it, thus providing the parties concerned with the necessary information for making right, prompt and timely economic decisions, aimed both at combating wind erosion and elimination of its consequences, and for organizing preventive measures as well. To improve the effectiveness of these methods it is also necessary to create databases, expand and accumulate soil information that can help verify, refine, process and calibrate the satellite data obtained. In order to understand aeolian processes and dust particle transport mechanisms one should create integrated methods that include remote sensing data, meteorological data, on the basis of which the improved models and maps would be developed, and erosion processes would be predicted. The scientific literature is mostly devoted to the interpretation of wind erosion in arid and semi-arid zones. The possibility of satellite monitoring of soil erosion in arable fields remains poorly studied. There are also practically no research results available on the transport of chemicals with micro-particles due to wind erosion. Both in Russia and abroad the attempts are made in soil erosion modelling, but the quality of the models is very limited by the lack of field data required for their calibration and verification. Eroded soils in the country are still identified using ground-based methods. However, field studies can only be conducted in a very limited area, in a few key points, and as a matter of fact it is quite complicated to conduct field studies on actively used agricultural lands.
topic soil deflation
satellite monitoring
soil degradation
soil research methods
url https://bulletin.esoil.ru/jour/article/view/611
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