OREANDA-NEWS  A unique system of remote analysis of the state of soil and sea ice was created by NCFU scientists. According to the authors, the development will become a key sensor for smart farming systems, and will also help optimize the costs of creating transport sea corridors in the Arctic. A patent has been obtained for the development, the press service of the university reported.

Remote sensing systems of the Earth's surface, according to scientists, today increasingly rely on UAVs, not satellites. This approach allows you to achieve much more detailed data and increase the speed of their collection and processing.


A number of types of the Earth's surface – such as the soil cover of farmland or the ice cover of the oceans – belong to the so-called flat-layered dielectrics. According to scientists, knowing the indicators of dielectric permittivity and specific conductivity of these media, it is possible to determine the moisture and salinity of the soil, the thickness, density and salinity of sea ice, as well as a number of other physico-chemical parameters.

Researchers of the North Caucasus Federal University (NCFU) have developed a new method for remote measurement of the dielectric permittivity of the Earth's surface, surpassing analogues in accuracy, efficiency and economy.

"Today, the main condition for the introduction of precision farming technologies, collectively capable of increasing the productivity of the agricultural industry by 20%, is to ensure the flow of accurate and timely information about the physico–chemical parameters of the soil. Our development can automatically collect all the necessary data of this type," said Gennady Linets, head of the Department of Infocommunications of NCFU.