Agriculture is facing immense challenges. We have to produce enough food while safe-guarding the environment for future generations. This results in the need to use less water and fertilizer, and to harness soil quality. Key to achieving this goal is improving the understanding of processes and interactions governing the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum of agricultural ecosystems. Geophysical tools have great potential to better characterize and quantify these processes noninvasively from the plot to landscape scale. Nevertheless, a number of challenges remain for geophysical results to be better exploited by different scientific communities and by decision-makers. In this special section, we explore ongoing research in the relatively new field of agrogeophysics, and we provide an overview of potential applications and highlight future research needs.

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地球物理学征服新领域：“农业地球物理学”的兴起

农业面临巨大挑战。我们必须生产足够的食物，同时为子孙后代保护环境。这导致需要使用更少的水和肥料，并控制土壤质量。实现这一目标的关键是提高对控制农业生态系统土壤-植物-大气连续体的过程和相互作用的理解。地球物理工具具有很大的潜力，可以更好地表征和量化从地块到景观尺度的这些过程。然而，要让不同的科学团体和决策者更好地利用地球物理结果，仍然存在许多挑战。在这个特殊的部分中，我们探索了相对较新的农业地球物理学领域正在进行的研究，