Innovations in Environmental Monitoring Using Mobile Phone Technology – A Review

Aitkenhead, Matthew; Donnelly, David; Coull, Malcolm; Hastings, Emily M.

doi:10.3991/ijim.v8i2.3645

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“…Portable infrared instruments capture ultraspectral (i.e., data across thousands of wavelengths), reducing the number of data without losing useful information makes for more accessible analysis (Viscarra‐Rossel and Behrens, 2010) or spectral response‐based PSS. In addition, methods of applying three‐channel RGB data will open up the possibility of using digital cameras and mobile phones for PSS (Viscarra‐Rossel et al, 2009; Aitkenhead et al, 2014). Measurement of soil‐horizon characteristics, including depth of impermeable layers, is also possible with digital imagery (Islam et al, 2014).…”

Section: Modern Sources Of Spatial and Temporal Data For Soil Modelingmentioning

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Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

Vereecken

Schnepf

Hopmans

et al. 2016

Vadose Zone Journal

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The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil models has occurred in the last decades, models of soil processes remain disjointed between disciplines or ecosystem services, with considerable uncertainty remaining in the quality of predictions and several challenges that remain yet to be addressed. First, there is a need to improve exchange of knowledge and experience among the different disciplines in soil science and to reach out to other Earth science communities. Second, the community needs to develop a new generation of soil models based on a systemic approach comprising relevant physical, chemical, and biological processes to address critical knowledge gaps in our understanding of soil processes and their interactions. Overcoming these challenges will facilitate exchanges between soil modeling and climate, plant, and social science modeling communities. It will allow us to contribute to preserve and improve our assessment of ecosystem services and advance our understanding of climate-change feedback mechanisms, among others, thereby facilitating and strengthening communication among scientific disciplines and society. We review the role of modeling soil processes in quantifying key soil processes that shape ecosystem services, with a focus on provisioning and regulating services. We then identify key challenges in modeling soil processes, including the systematic incorporation of heterogeneity and uncertainty, the integration of data and models, and strategies for effective integration of knowledge on physical, chemical, and biological soil processes. We discuss how the soil modeling community could best interface with modern modeling activities in other disciplines, such as climate, ecology, and plant research, and how to weave novel observation and measurement techniques into soil models. We propose the establishment of an international soil modeling consortium to coherently advance soil modeling activities and foster communication with other Earth science disciplines. Such a consortium should promote soil modeling platforms and data repository for model development, calibration and intercomparison essential for addressing contemporary challenges.

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Section: Modern Sources Of Spatial and Temporal Data For Soil Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

Vereecken

Schnepf

Hopmans

et al. 2016

Vadose Zone Journal

541

394

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“…Recently, there has been renewed interest in creation of soil test kits optimized for agronomical field use as a result of increasing access to technology such as portable sensors (Piikki et al., 2016). Key to this is the rising ubiquity of smartphones, which are being increasingly used in environmental management applications (Aitkenhead, Donnelly, Coull, & Hastings, 2014) and soil science (Aitkenhead et al., 2015; Delgado, Kowalski, & Tebbe, 2013; Stiglitz et al., 2017).…”

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Novel procedure for testing of soil field test kits involving paper strips

Golicz

Hallett

Sakrabani

2020

Soil Use and Management

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The need for facilitation of access to soil information has never been greater. Growing human population, shrinking land and water resources, soil pollution, climate change and unequal distribution of agriculture-oriented technology impact negatively on global food security. There has been a longstanding interest in developing low-cost and easily accessible soil field kits to measure different properties of agricultural soils in order to improve their agronomic capacity. Test strips, in particular, have provided a favoured method of obtaining soil nutrient status information since the 1970s. Today there is renewed interest in using semi-qualitative colorimetric methods in soil assessment due to incorporation of modern technological solutions, such as smartphones, which could in turn increase the accuracy and precision of the existing methods. In this paper, we propose streamlined testing procedures based on experience gathered that may be conducted prior to a field kit development involving test strips. Results from laboratory and field experiments are presented, highlighting important factors which ought to be taken into account at the commencement of test-strip oriented studies.

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“…The data collected by fixed monitoring stations, actually used, could be associated at the data collected by moving units, with the aim to create a virtual network constituted by hundreds of measuring points (Khan et al, 2013;Lillehoj et al, 2013;O'Driscoll et al, 2013;Nazelle et al, 2013;Lane et al, 2010;Aitkenhead, 2013;Novella, 2013;Aitkenhead et al, 2014;Kanio et al, 2010;Kaoutit et al, 2013), Cannistraro et al, 2013, Cannistraro et al, 2016.…”

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New technique monitoring and transmission environmental data with mobile systems

Cannistraro¹,

Cannistraro²,

Cao³

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The deterioration of air quality in urban areas has become a problem to be reckoned with, the greater levels pollution, in addition to subject the inhabitants at risks substantial for the health, poses a risk potential of degradation of the historical-artisticarchitecture. The Department of Engineering of Messina together with the Department of Energetic and Environmental Researches (DREAM) of the University of Palermo, in cooperation with the Municipal Transport Company of Messina has development a project called "Project SET: Eco-efficient and Environmental Friendly Transport Systems". The project aims to define an integrated system of services to facilitate the deployment of ITS (Intelligent Transport System) solutions and of new techniques for the assessment of the urban microclimate and pollution conditions using original data acquisition equipments installed on moving vehicles. These instruments, equipped with various kinds of sensors, are able to measure the most important weather date and climate quantities and the most relevant pollution parameters and to save the position of the acquired data (latitude, longitude, altitude, speed) by means of a Global Positioning System (GPS). Data can be downloaded from a remote station through the GSM/GPRS mobile phone network. These equipments, continuously moving across the urban area, could integrate the data coming from existing fixed stations, and create a virtual network of hundreds of measuring points. In the field of the pollution control they can contribute to the characterization of causes, the localization of sources and to the application and check of control strategies with a relevant spin-off to town planning.In this paper the research activities carried out by the Departments of the two Universities of Messina and Palermo within the SET project and prototype of a standalone unit for detection and remote data acquisition are described.

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Innovations in Environmental Monitoring Using Mobile Phone Technology – A Review

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

Novel procedure for testing of soil field test kits involving paper strips

New technique monitoring and transmission environmental data with mobile systems

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