Digital Soil Mapping: Bridging Research, Environmental Application, and Operation

Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Current State of Digital Soil Mapping and What Is Next....Pages 3-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Environmental Covariates for Digital Soil Mapping in the Western USA....Pages 17-27
A Generalized Additive Soil Depth Model for a Mountainous Semi-Arid Watershed Based Upon Topographic and Land Cover Attributes....Pages 29-41
Applying Geochronology in Predictive Digital Mapping of Soils....Pages 43-53
Scale Effects on Terrain Attribute Calculation and Their Use as Environmental Covariates for Digital Soil Mapping....Pages 55-66
Conditioned Latin Hypercube Sampling: Optimal Sample Size for Digital Soil Mapping of Arid Rangelands in Utah, USA....Pages 67-75
Using Proximal Soil Sensors for Digital Soil Mapping....Pages 79-92
The Use of Hyperspectral Imagery for Digital Soil Mapping in Mediterranean Areas....Pages 93-102
Automatic Interpretation of Quickbird Imagery for Digital Soil Mapping, North Caspian Region, Russia....Pages 103-112
ASTER-Based Vegetation Map to Improve Soil Modeling in Remote Areas....Pages 113-122
Digital Soil Boundary Detection Using Quantitative Hydrologic Remote Sensing....Pages 123-136
Homosoil, a Methodology for Quantitative Extrapolation of Soil Information Across the Globe....Pages 137-150
Artificial Neural Network and Decision Tree in Predictive Soil Mapping of Hoi Num Rin Sub-Watershed, Thailand....Pages 151-164
Evaluation of the Transferability of a Knowledge-Based Soil-Landscape Model....Pages 165-178
Random Forests Applied as a Soil Spatial Predictive Model in Arid Utah....Pages 179-190
Two Methods for Using Legacy Data in Digital Soil Mapping....Pages 191-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Mapping Heavy Metal Content in Soils with Multi-Kernel SVR and LiDAR Derived Data....Pages 205-216
Mapping the CN Ratio of the Forest Litters in Europe-Lessons for Global Digital Soil Mapping....Pages 217-226
Spatial Prediction and Uncertainty Assessment of Soil Organic Carbon in Hebei Province, China....Pages 227-239
Estimating Soil Organic Matter Content by Regression Kriging....Pages 241-254
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Digital Soil Mapping of Topsoil Organic Carbon Content of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil....Pages 255-266
Comparing Decision Tree Modeling and Indicator Kriging for Mapping the Extent of Organic Soils in Denmark....Pages 267-280
Modeling Wind Erosion Events – Bridging the Gap Between Digital Soil Mapping and Digital Soil Risk Assessment....Pages 281-293
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
Soilscapes Basis for Digital Soil Mapping in New Zealand....Pages 297-307
Legacy Soil Data Harmonization and Database Development....Pages 309-323
Toward Digital Soil Mapping in Canada: Existing Soil Survey Data and Related Expert Knowledge....Pages 325-335
Predictive Ecosystem Mapping (PEM) for 8.2 Million ha of Forestland, British Columbia, Canada....Pages 337-356
Building Digital Soil Mapping Capacity in the Natural Resources Conservation Service: Mojave Desert Operational Initiative....Pages 357-367
A Qualitative Comparison of Conventional Soil Survey and Digital Soil Mapping Approaches....Pages 369-384
Applying the Optimum Index Factor to Multiple Data Types in Soil Survey....Pages 385-398
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) TEUI Geospatial Toolkit: An Operational Ecosystem Inventory Application....Pages 399-410
Predictive Soil Maps Based on Geomorphic Mapping, Remote Sensing, and Soil Databases in the Desert Southwest....Pages 411-421
 GlobalSoilMap.net – A New Digital Soil Map of the World....Pages 423-428
Methodologies for Global Soil Mapping....Pages 429-436
Back Matter....Pages 437-439