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With the improvement of smartphone imaging quality (hardware side) and advances in image analytics (software side), there is currently a dynamic development intending to provide novel digital tools for soil assessment.

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The Nature-Based Solutions for Soil Management – NBSOIL – project is a four-year EU funded project that aims to create and test a learning pathway for existing and aspiring soil advisors.

Within NBSoil we aim to explore the use of mobile apps for soil health monitoring to provide tools to next- generation soil health advisors on relevant measures that are considered responsive to nature-based solutions, in particular soil organic carbon and soil structure.

Access this report below with an overview on smartphone digital soil health assessment tools and a summary of next steps.

Smartphone use for Soil Citizen Science1.07 MB

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