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Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-12-227-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-12-227-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
Review article
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16 Mar 2026
Review article |  | 16 Mar 2026

On soil health and the pivotal role of sensing

Yang Hu, Adam Cross, Zefang Shen, Johan Bouma, and Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel

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Effective management of soil health is essential to managing widespread soil degradation. Current frameworks for defining and assessing soil health are limited, focusing on agricultural contexts and relying on expensive, impractical lab analysis. Our socio-ecological framework offers a way forward, grounding soil health in ecological perspective and using modern sensing and data-driven technologies for rapid, scalable, policy-relevant assessment.
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