SoilSoil is a fundamental constituent for plant growth and plays a vital role in carbon sequestration. However, poor land useLand use management practices affect soilSoil health. The conversion of forestland to other land usesLand use, erosion, flooding, and other anthropogenic activities resulted in losses of carbon sequestrated in the above-ground trees and in the soilsSoil. Mapping and continuous monitoring of soilSoil organic carbon improve our understanding to know the status of soilsSoil for remedial actions. Conventional soil carbonSoil carbon monitoring approaches involved long-term agricultural experiments or a snapshut field-based soilSoil sample collection and laboratory analysis. Such approaches are time-consuming and laborious, costly, take too long to get relevant results within a short time frame; has limited spatial and temporal coverage, and also, it is difficult to extrapolate site-specific results for larger spatial coverage and prediction. Remote sensingRemote sensing data and tools contribute a lot to filling the gaps observed in conventional soilSoil monitoring approaches. Several environmental covariates can be used from satellite imageries to model and map the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil propertiesSoil properties including soilSoil organic carbon dynamics. This chapter discusses the tools for web-based interactive mapping and monitoring of modeled soilSoil organic carbon dynamics (for fifty years; 2022–2072) of cultivated and grazing lands in the landscape of Abbay BasinAbbay Basin. The users can register on the web to obtain both datasets based on their area of interest from the Kebele to microwatershed levels over the years. This interactive web mapInteractive web map plays a significant role in easily availing carbon content information for researchers and policymakers for making better decisions.

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Interactive Web Tool for Mapping Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics

  • Worku Zewdie,
  • Degefie Tibebe,
  • Abraraw Assefa,
  • Assefa Abegaz,
  • Berhan Gessesse,
  • Ashenafi Ali,
  • Wuletawu Abera,
  • Lulseged Tamene,
  • Amsalu Tilaye

摘要

SoilSoil is a fundamental constituent for plant growth and plays a vital role in carbon sequestration. However, poor land useLand use management practices affect soilSoil health. The conversion of forestland to other land usesLand use, erosion, flooding, and other anthropogenic activities resulted in losses of carbon sequestrated in the above-ground trees and in the soilsSoil. Mapping and continuous monitoring of soilSoil organic carbon improve our understanding to know the status of soilsSoil for remedial actions. Conventional soil carbonSoil carbon monitoring approaches involved long-term agricultural experiments or a snapshut field-based soilSoil sample collection and laboratory analysis. Such approaches are time-consuming and laborious, costly, take too long to get relevant results within a short time frame; has limited spatial and temporal coverage, and also, it is difficult to extrapolate site-specific results for larger spatial coverage and prediction. Remote sensingRemote sensing data and tools contribute a lot to filling the gaps observed in conventional soilSoil monitoring approaches. Several environmental covariates can be used from satellite imageries to model and map the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil propertiesSoil properties including soilSoil organic carbon dynamics. This chapter discusses the tools for web-based interactive mapping and monitoring of modeled soilSoil organic carbon dynamics (for fifty years; 2022–2072) of cultivated and grazing lands in the landscape of Abbay BasinAbbay Basin. The users can register on the web to obtain both datasets based on their area of interest from the Kebele to microwatershed levels over the years. This interactive web mapInteractive web map plays a significant role in easily availing carbon content information for researchers and policymakers for making better decisions.