Digital Soil Mapping
An Introductory Perspective

The first book devoted to the understanding of Digital Soil Mapping

Philippe Lagacherie (Volume editor), Alex McBratney (Volume editor), Marc Voltz (Volume editor)

9780444529589, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 4 December 2006

658 pages
24 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm, 1.32 kg

"The editors have undoubtedly brought together a great deal of information...the editors and authors deserve our commendation." --R. Webster in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

The book compiles the main ideas and methodologies that have been proposed and tested within these last fifteen years in the field of Digital Soil Mapping (DSM). Begining with current experiences of soil information system developments in various regions of the world, this volume presents states of the art of different topics covered by DSM: Conception and handling of soil databases, sampling methods, new soil spatial covariates, Quantitative spatial modelling, Quality assessment and representation of DSM outputs.
This book provides a solid support to students, researchers and engineers interested in modernising soil survey approaches with numerical techniques. It is also of great interest for potential soil data users.

A. Introduction
B. Digital soil mapping: current state and perspectives
C. Conception and handling of soil databases
D. Sampling methods for creating digital soil maps
E. New environmental covariates for digital soil mapping
F. Quantitative modelling for digital soil mapping
F.i : Examples of predicting soil classes
F.ii : Examples of predicting soil attributes
G. Quality assessment and representation of digital soil maps

Subject Areas: Cartography, map-making & projections [RGV], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB]