ABSTRACT

The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the epidemic of the Ebola virus, and currently the COVID-19 pandemic is an essential wake-up call for all countries to transform the approach to soil assessment and environmental management, and these diseases have proved how quickly a new virus can spread to every corner of the globe. With so many countries declaring the state of the emergency protocol due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, adopting and intensifying the provisions for the fourth industrial revolution technologies such as robotics and state-of-the-art mobile laboratories could be the only way to transform and expedite the approach to soil assessment, mapping, monitoring, and environmental management. This article proposes the four^th industrial revolution methodologies that can be adapted to assist the farmers and community in managing soils and the environment when the world nations are in a predicament of the pandemic such as COVID-19. The task would be to develop an outdoor automated or semi-autonomous machine vision system (drone or a robot) that can exceptionally substitute human labour on soil management tasks that are critical and cannot be performed by human labour as a result of COVID-19 national lockdown and any other related limitations of infield conventional assessment methods.

摘要

2009年H1N1流感大流行，埃博拉病毒流行和当前的COVID-19大流行是所有国家改变土壤评估和环境管理方法的基本呼吁，这些疾病已证明新疾病有多快病毒可以传播到全球的每个角落。如此之多的国家宣布由于冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行而宣布了紧急协议的状态，因此采用和加强第四次工业革命技术（例如机器人技术和最新的移动实验室）的规定可能是唯一的改变和加快土壤评估，制图，监测和环境管理方法的方法。本文提出了四个^次工业革命的方法论，可以在世界各国处于COVID-19等大流行的困境时加以调整，以协助农民和社区管理土壤和环境。任务是开发一种室外自动或半自动机器视觉系统（无人机或机器人），该系统可以用人工代替土壤管理任务，而土壤管理任务非常关键，并且由于COVID-19 National的要求而无法由人工完成锁定以及野外常规评估方法的任何其他相关限制。