Soil Health and Environmental Sustainability: Application of Geospatial Technology PDF
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Environmental Science and Engineering Pravat Kumar Shit Partha Pratim Adhikary Gouri Sankar Bhunia Debashish Sengupta Editors Soil Health and Environmental Sustainability Application of Geospatial Technology Environmental Science and Engineering Series Editors Ulrich Förstner, Buchholz, Germany Wim H. Rulkens, Department of Environmental Technology, Wageningen, The Netherlands The ultimate goal of this series is to contribute to the protection of our environment, which calls for both profound research and the ongoing development of solutions and measurements by experts in the field. Accordingly, the series promotes not only a deeper understanding of environmental processes and the evaluation of management strategies, but also design and technology aimed at improving environmental quality. Books focusing on the former are published in the subseries Environmental Science, those focusing on the latter in the subseries Environmental Engineering. · · Pravat Kumar Shit Partha Pratim Adhikary · Gouri Sankar Bhunia Debashish Sengupta Editors Soil Health and Environmental Sustainability Application of Geospatial Technology Editors Pravat Kumar Shit Partha Pratim Adhikary Geography Soil Science Raja N. L. Khan Womens College ICAR Indian Institute of Water (Autonomous) Management Midnapore, West Bengal, India Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Gouri Sankar Bhunia Debashish Sengupta GIS Scientist Department of Geology and Geophysics TPF Getinsa Euroestudios S.l Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Gurgaon, Haryana, India Kharagpur, West Bengal, India ISSN 1863-5520 ISSN 1863-5539 (electronic) Environmental Science and Engineering ISBN 978-3-031-09269-5 ISBN 978-3-031-09270-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09270-1 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 This work is subject to copyright. 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This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Dedicated to Young Scholars in the field of Soil Science and Environment Preface Soil and agricultural systems are an integral part of the global environment and human well-being, providing multiple goods and services essential for people worldwide and crucial for sustainable development. Soil contamination is an environmental hazard, and has become a big issue related to environmental health. The challenge of twenty-first century is to reduce the contaminant load and bring it to below permis- sible level. The contamination is not only a problem affecting local environments at the place of occurrence but also spreading to other regions because of easy trans- portation of pollutants. This leads to direct and indirect contamination of land and aquatic systems, surface water and groundwater, inducing significant risks for natural ecosystems. The liquid waste and leachates generated from the solid waste percolate into the ground causing problems like groundwater contamination, degradation of vegetation, modification of soil properties, etc. Soil is a “universal sink” which bears the greatest burden of environmental pollution. It is getting polluted in a number of ways. However, there is an urgent need for proper management and geospatial modelling to control soil pollution in order to preserve soil fertility and increase productivity as well as reduce the ecological risk. GIS data management and spatial modelling provide the possibility to examine large amount of data simultaneously by incorporating layers of different data into one, which expands the field of application to environmental modelling and scenario simulation. Spatial tools and geostatistical applications are useful techniques for assessment of values at un-sampled locations and account the spatial correlation between projected and sampled points and minimizing the discrepancy of assessment error, trends and patterns in large amounts of data and implementation costs. This book is composed of 31 chapters associated with spatial modelling in soil and sediments pollution, and remediation, radioactive wastes, microbiology of soil and sediments, soil salinity and sodicity, pollution from landfill sites, soil erosion and contamination from agricultural activities, heavy metal pollution and health risk, Environmental impact and risk assessment, sustainable land use, landscape manage- ment and governance, soil degradation and risk assessment, agricultural soil pollu- tion, pollution due to urban activities, soil pollution by industrial effluents and solid wastes, pollution control and mitigation in extreme environments. The content of this vii viii Preface book will be of interest to researchers, professionals and policymakers who work in the soil science and agriculture practices. The book equips with the knowledge and skills to tackle a wide range of issues manifested in geographic data, including those with scientific, societal and environmental implications. We are very much thankful to all the authors who have meticulously completed their documents on a short announcement and played a vital role in building this edifying and beneficial publication. We do believe that this will be a very convenient book for soil science, geographers, ecologists, environmental scientists and others working in the field of soil-water resources management including research scholars, environmentalists and policymakers. We also acknowledge our deep gratitude to the Springer Publishing House for contracting with us for such timely publication. Midnapore, India Pravat Kumar Shit Bhubaneswar, India Partha Pratim Adhikary Gurgaon, India Gouri Sankar Bhunia Kharagpur, India Debashish Sengupta Acknowledgments The preparation of this book has been guided by several soil pioneers. We are obliged to these experts for providing their time to evaluate the chapters published in this book. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments that led to substantial improvement to the quality of this book. Because this book was a long time in the making, we want to thank our family and friends for their continued support. This work would not have been possible without constant inspiration from our students, knowledge from our teachers, enthusiasm from our colleagues and collaborators, and support from our family. Finally, we also thank our publisher and its publishing editor, Springer, for their continuous support in the publication of this book. ix Contents Part I Measurement, Monitoring and Mapping of Soil and Land Resources 1 Open-Source Satellite Repository and Geographic Information System (GIS) for Soil Resource Mapping ............ 3 Nidhi Kanwar, Sumit Rai, and Jagdish Chandra Kuniyal 2 Applicability of Open Source Satellite Data and GIS for Soil Resources Inventorying and Monitoring ......................... 27 M. Chandrakala, R. Srinivasan, K. Sujatha, Sunil P. Maske, Rajendra Hegde, and B. S. Dwivedi 3 Application of Discrete Element Method Simulation in Environmental Modeling .................................... 43 Alireza Sadeghi-Chahardeh and Silvio José Gumiere 4 Geospatial Techniques and Methods for Sustainability in Agricultural Management ................................... 61 Mariana Amato, Alessio Pollice, and Roberta Rossi 5 Soil and Vegetation in Pachmarhi Biosphere Reserve and Their Correlation ......................................... 87 Saikat Banerjee, P. K. Khatri, and S. K. Banerjee 6 Salt Affected Soils: Global Perspectives ......................... 107 Nirmalendu Basak, Arvind Kumar Rai, Arijit Barman, Subashis Mandal, Parul Sundha, Sandeep Bedwal, Sanjay Kumar, Rajender Kumar Yadav, and Parbodh Chander Sharma 7 Application of Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques in Assessment of Salt Affected Soils for Management in Large Scale Soil Survey .............................................. 131 R. Srinivasan, M. Lalitha, M. Chandrakala, S. Dharumarajan, and Rajendra Hegde xi
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