Remote sensing: the method of GIS application for monitoring the state of soils

Abstract

Modern technologies of remote sensing of the Earth from space allow creating new information systems for observing and studying various processes occurring in biogeocenoses and agrocenoses. This is especially important in the case when it comes to the study of grape agrocenoses, since their most important elements are perennial plants and soils that provide a harvest. In this case, it is necessary to create special information technology for monitoring such objects. This will allow forming a series of observations that are uniform in time and space and provide the ability to conduct an analysis with a high degree of reliability in the future. The aim of this work is to develop methodological foundations for the formation of a system for remote diagnostics of soil fertility of grape agrocenoses in connection with the technology of cultivation and bioecological features of cultivated crops in solving problems of improving land use efficiency, as well as the creation of a mock-up of information system for remote monitoring of grape agrocenoses on their basis, aimed at solving tasks of predicting the condition of soils and vineyards, obtaining objective information about predicted fertility, solving problems of increasing land use efficiency, taking into account soil cultivation technologies and bioecological features of cultivated crops, abiotic and biotic factors.

The basic principles of construction and the structure of the system for remote monitoring of the state of soils of grape agrocenoses

“…Throughout the history of land use on our planet, one can see a pattern associated with changes in land use technologies, climate change, which ultimately leads to a constant loss of soil organic matter [1], the main representative of which is humus (85-90% of the total). Moreover, it is the content of organic matter in the soil that is an integral indicator of its fertility [2].…”