Digital Soil Mapping with Limited Data

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Digital Soil Mapping: A State of the Art....Pages 3-14
Digital Soil Mapping Technologies for Countries with Sparse Data Infrastructures....Pages 15-30
A New Global Demand for Digital Soil Information....Pages 31-41
Development and Application of Digital Soil Mapping Within Traditional Soil Survey: What will it Grow Into?....Pages 43-51
Soil Map Density and a Nation’s Wealth and Income....Pages 53-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Digital Soil Mapping as a Component of Data Renewal for Areas with Sparse Soil Data Infrastructures....Pages 69-80
Challenges to Digital Soil Mapping....Pages 81-90
Mapping Potassium Availability from Limited Soil Profile Data in Brazil....Pages 91-101
GIS as a Support to Soil Mapping in Southern Brazil....Pages 103-112
Experiences with Applied DSM: Protocol, Availability, Quality and Capacity Building....Pages 113-135
Towards a Data Quality Management Framework for Digital Soil Mapping with Limited Data....Pages 137-149
Demand-Driven Land Evaluation....Pages 151-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy as a Tool for Digital Soil Mapping....Pages 165-172
Digital Soil Mapping at a National Scale: A Knowledge and GIS Based Approach to Improving Parent Material and Property Information....Pages 173-182
3D Modelling of Geology and Soils – A Case Study from the UK....Pages 183-191
Landsat Spectral Data for Digital Soil Mapping....Pages 193-202
From a Large to a Small Scale Soil Map: Top-Down Against Bottom-Up Approaches....Pages 203-212
An Approach to Removing Uncertainties in Nominal Environmental Covariates and Soil Class Maps....Pages 213-224
Digital Soil Mapping Using Logistic Regression on Terrain Parameters for Several Ecological Regions in Southern Brazil....Pages 225-232
Purposive Sampling for Digital Soil Mapping for Areas with Limited Data....Pages 233-245
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Assessment of Land Degradation Using NASA GIMMS: A Case Study in Kenya....Pages 247-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Spatial-Temporal Changes in Land Cover, Soil Properties and Carbon Stocks in Rio de Janeiro....Pages 261-271
Broad-Scale Soil Monitoring Through a Nationwide Soil-Testing Database....Pages 273-281
Online Soil Information Systems – Recent Australian Experience....Pages 283-290
Digital Soil Mapping Using Legacy Data in the Eden Valley, UK....Pages 291-301
Delineating Acidified Soils in the Jizera Mountains Region Using Fuzzy Classification....Pages 303-309
Incorporating Legacy Soil pH Databases into Digital Soil Maps....Pages 311-318
The Digital Terrain Model as a Tool for Improved Delineation of Alluvial Soils....Pages 319-326
Building a Digital Soil Data Base of the Solimões River Region in the Brazilian Central Amazon....Pages 327-335
Enhancing the Use of Remotely-Sensed Data and Information for Digital Soilscape Mapping....Pages 337-348
The Use of GIS and Digital Elevation Model in Digital Soil Mapping – A Case Study from São Paulo, Brazil....Pages 349-356
Geomorphometric Attributes Applied to Soil-Landscapes Supervised Classification of Mountainous Tropical Areas in Brazil: A Case Study....Pages 357-365
Digital Soil Mapping of Soil Properties in Honduras Using Readily Available Biophysical Datasets and Gaussian Processes....Pages 367-380
Digital Mapping of Soil Classes in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil: Data, Modelling and Prediction....Pages 381-396
Front Matter....Pages 397-397
Synthesis and Priorities for Future Work in Digital Soil Mapping....Pages 399-403
Back Matter....Pages 405-445