Scientists invite collaboration on new soil health platform with AI chatbot to support sustainable farming and land management across Europe
A pan-European team of scientists and soil innovation partners are inviting soil advisers, land...
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Providing a novel indicator to understand soils’ potential to mitigate climate change
A new international study, carried out as part of the AI4SoilHealth project,...
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Understanding soil with spectroscopy: A game changer for sustainable farming?
For anyone involved in agriculture or land management, understanding the health and...
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Soil health now – but when? Why we need to consider the timing of indicators like infiltration in forest soils
While the recent “Soil Health Now” conference in Wageningen rightly emphasised the...
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How eDNA reveals hidden life in soil
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is revolutionising how we study biodiversity, providing a non-invasive way to detect organisms from the genetic material they leave behind. In soil, eDNA can originate from bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, plants, and even animals, offering a snapshot of ecosystem diversity and health. But how do we extract and analyse eDNA from something as complex as soil?
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A New Approach to Measuring Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)
Measuring soil health across a large continent provides us with a challenge....
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The scientific challenge behind AI4SoilHealth
AI4SoilHealth is at the forefront of working with stakeholders to co-design, create and harness digital technology to support pan European Soil Mission efforts. The infrastructure will be used for assessing, and continuously monitoring, soil health metrics. We caught up with David Robinson from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology to find out more about the scientific challenges that AI4SoilHealth is working on to do this and how the project intends to change the way soil health is measured across Europe.
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