This symposium focuses on Digital Soil Assessment which is the process beyond Digital Soil Mapping (DSM). Once the soil map and the associated accuracy have been produced, these serve as inputs for modelling soil processes (threats to soil, soil functions, soil-environment relationships). The accuracy produced during the DSM process should also be used in the soil-process modelling in order to obtain two kinds of outputs: 1. the spatial distribution of the outputs of modelled soil process, and 2, the associated accuracy of the prediction. Contributions to this new area of discourse are welcomed.

Convenor – Florence Carre (Italy) florence.carre@jrc.it
Co-Convenor – Neil McKenzie (Australia) Neil.Mckenzie@csiro.au
Keynote speaker – Budiman Minasny

Budiman Minasny will speak about pedotransfer functions: their strengths, limits and extrapolability.

4^th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping

Rome, 24-26 May 2010

CNR Conference Room, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7 – 00185 Roma

Further Information:

2010.digitalsoilmapping.org