Soil mapping as one of the means of optimizing precision agriculture

Abstract

This article presents all the possibilities for developing and implementing a modern method of updating existing soil-cartographic data and obtaining the most reliable data within a short period with minimal labor, financial and material costs for specialists in the field of agronomy. Accurate farming and rational cultivation of grain and non-grain agricultural plants are impossible without taking into account reliable, objective, complete, and detailed information about the soil situation in our country. Thanks to the development of science and the introduction of the latest technologies, new opportunities appear to improve the monitoring, speed, objectivity, and economic productivity of soil mapping by minimizing complex and challenging fieldwork and facilitating the conduct of chemical studies of soil samples. The practice of creating soil maps acquired by other advanced countries proves a great need to use reliable Earth remote sensing data in integration with the capabilities of geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning tools (GPS) in precision agriculture. They concluded and provided data for solving the task by performing geoinformation mapping using non-contact methods for soil diagnostics and research. The diagnostics of this study are aimed at verifying the integrity and practicality of the application of non-contact methods that contribute to the analysis of the soil surface and the creation of new conditions for the introduction of precision agriculture in the regional plane in connection with the emergence of specific difficulties and shortcomings in the use of remote sensing data of the Earth's surface for accurate surveying of the area research.