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DRIFTS Sensor: Soil Carbon Validation at Large Scale (Pantelleria, Italy)

2013

A fast and accurate measurement of soil carbon is needed in current scientific issues. Today there are many sensors suitable for these purposes, but choosing the appropriate sensor depends on the spatial scale at which the studies are conducted. There are few detailed studies that validate these types of measures allowing their immediate use. Here it is validated the quick use of a sensor in execution at Pantelleria, chosen for size, use and variability of the parameter measured, to give an operational tool for carbon stocks studies. The DRIFT sensor used here has been validated in the first 60 cm of the soil of the whole island, and it has shown predictivity higher than 90%.

EngineeringSettore AGR/05 - Assestamento Forestale E SelvicolturaSettore AGR/13 - Chimica Agrariaanthropogenic soilsPLSMediterraneancarbon; nitrogen; DRIFT; PLS; Technosols; Mediterranean; anthropogenic soilscomputer.software_genrelcsh:Chemical technologyBiochemistryArticlenitrogenAnalytical ChemistryTechnosollcsh:TP1-1185Electrical and Electronic EngineeringTechnosolsInstrumentationCarbon stockRemote sensingbusiness.industrySoil organic mattercarbonSoil carbonAtomic and Molecular Physics and Opticscarbon; nitrogen; anthropogenic soils; Technosols; PLS; DRIFTDRIFTSettore AGR/14 - PedologiaSpatial ecologyData miningScale (map)businesscomputerSensors
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Anthropogenic soils as the marker

2017

This article aims to support the Anthropogenic soils, the ones markedly affected by human activities, as the most meaningful marker for the onset of the Anthropocene. Although diachronous and not uniformly distributed throughout the world, these soils in fact show more prominently and potentially longer in time than other proposed markers for the impact of humans on the Earth surface.

Settore AGR/14 - Pedologiasoil Anthrosols Technosols
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