The industrial revolution and associated demographic growth have led to increased environmental contamination by various chemical compounds related to human activities. Industrial and mining activities have notably been at the origin of legacy soil contamination. Depending on their toxicity and persistence in the environment, contaminants can alter the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils and raise ecosystem and human health concerns. Over the last few decades, promising solutions based on spectral sensing have emerged for monitoring contaminant release, fate and effects on soils and plants, from the field to higher scale applications. A wide variety of approaches coupling sensor-based data to plant and soil sciences have been proposed for detecting and assessing soil contamination directly or indirectly, opening the way to surveying contaminated areas and characterizing the impacts of anthropogenic activities on the environment. This webinar addresses various aspects of soil contamination monitoring over space and time using spectral sensing.

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