Measuring soil salinity using electrical conductivity

How is soil and plant health impacted by soil salinity? Why is electrical conductivity used to measure soil salinity? And how do we do this? Find out in this video. This film has been developed as part of an EU soil's mission project called AI4SoilHealth. The project endeavours to accelerate the collection and use of soil health information using AI technology. The video series, produced by the Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics at Hamburg University of Technology, aims to train the next generation of soil scientists by explaining the standard procedures required to quantify soil health indicators. AI4SoilHealth is a project funded by the European Union. To find out more, visit https://ai4soilhealth.eu/. AI4SoilHealth aims to accelerate the collection and use of soil health information using AI technology. This video series, produced by the Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics at Hamburg University of Technology, aims to train the next generation of soil scientists by explaining the standard procedures required to quantify soil health indicators. Further resources: • ISO 11265:2025: Environmental solid matrices — Determination of the specific electrical conductivity. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland. • FAO. (2021). Standard operating procedure for soil electrical conductivity, soil/water, 1:5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/... • USDA. (2011). Soil quality indicators – Soil electrical conductivity. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/conservatio... • USDA. (2024). National soil survey handbook, title 430-VI. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. https://directives.sc.egov.usda.gov • Smith, J. L., & Doran, J. W. (1997). Measurement and Use of pH and Electrical Conductivity for Soil Quality Analysis. In J. W. Doran & A. J. Jones (Eds.), SSSA Special Publications (1st ed., Vol. 49, pp. 169–185). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaspecpub49...