Near real-time soil erosion mapping through mobile gamma-ray spectroscopy.

Caesium-137 Mobile gamma-ray spectrometry Soil erosion Tillage

Journal

Journal of environmental radioactivity
ISSN: 1879-1700
Titre abrégé: J Environ Radioact
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8508119

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Nov 2020
Historique:
received: 01 06 2020
revised: 05 08 2020
accepted: 24 08 2020
pubmed: 17 9 2020
medline: 20 11 2020
entrez: 16 9 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Soil erosion has been associated with various negative environmental impacts foremost of which is the potential pressure it could impose on global food security. The poor conditions of our agricultural soil can be attributed to years of unsustainable farming practices occurring throughout history that has placed significant pressure on the environment. Moreover, climate change scenarios indicate further intensification which is likely making prediction and assessment of erosion processes critical for long term agricultural sustainability. This study demonstrates the potential of mobile gamma-ray spectrometry with large volume NaI(Tl) detectors to identify, at high spatial resolution, changes in

Identifiants

pubmed: 32937266
pii: S0265-931X(20)30411-2
doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2020.106400
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Cesium Radioisotopes 0
Soil 0
Cesium-137 4T2E65IAR7

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

106400

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Adam Varley (A)

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom. Electronic address: a.l.varley@stir.ac.uk.

Andrew Tyler (A)

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom.

Clare Wilson (C)

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom.

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