Sydney hosts international workshop on soil sensing and mapping technologies
Monday, 18 February, 2008
New soil-sensing technologies to save land managers billions of dollars and help manage Australian soil landscapes were discussed by the world’s leading scientists and specialists in Sydney.
The 1st Global Workshop on High Resolution Digital Soil Sensing and Mapping investigated development of improved technologies to measure and map soils.
“The pressures on the Earth’s soil resources are increasing dramatically; for example, we need to double food production by 2050 from about the same area of land,” said CSIRO’s Dr Neil McKenzie, chair of the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) Working Group on Digital Soil Mapping (WG-DSM).
“New measurement technologies are essential for us to avoid soil degradation and ensure sustainable land management.”
The four-day workshop, hosted by the University of Sydney, included a technical field day to showcase the soil-sensing instruments at the university’s farm in Cobbitty, NSW.
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