Soil contamination of military agrolandscapes
Abstract
Purpose. Testing methodological approaches to the environmental audit of potentially contaminated soils of agricultural landscapes affected by hostilities.
Methods. Field, analytical, decoding of satellite images to identify craters, atomic absorption spectrophotometry method.
Results. Studies of the ecological and geochemical state of soils of agricultural landscapes affected by hostilities were conducted in 2025 on the basis of a research site in the Rohansk territorial community of the Kharkiv region. Based on the analysis of publications on military soil contamination, the use of GIS and remote sensing to identify bomb-turbation zones was justified. Deciphering of satellite images was combined with field sampling and determination of mobile forms of Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb. Exceedance of background content without exceeding the MPC was established. A zoning map of agricultural landscapes of the Rohansk community was developed.
Conclusions. The proposed zoning of agricultural landscapes by bomb-turbation density for assessing potential contamination serves as a model for developing landscape transfer functions and extrapolating data to other deoccupied territories.
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