Workshops
The International WORKING GROUP ON DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING organizes bienneal Global workshops on Digital Soil Mapping rotatory with the conferences of the IUSS commission 1.5 Pedometrics.
To bring together different branches of environmetal research and application, the Working Group organizes meetings to special topics such as High Resolution Digital Soil Sensing and Mapping. Additionally, the Working Group aims to host symposia at different national and international congresses and conferences such as the 19th World Congress of the IUSS in Brisbane. In cooperation with GlobalSoilMap.net, a consortium for buiding digital maps of soil properties covering main parts of the World, further workshops are planned.
Reports of Digital Soil Mapping meetings
1st Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping 2004, Montpellier, France by David Rossiter
2nd Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Janis Boettinger
3rd Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping 2008, Logan, USA by Bob MacMillan
Next workshop
4th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, Rome, 24-26 May 2010
Outcomes of the Workshops
Lagacherie, P., McBratney, A.B., Voltz, M., (eds) 2006. Digital Soil Mapping: An Introductory Perspective. Developments in Soil Science, Volume 31. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 350pp.
Description: 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.
Audience: Soil scientists, physical geographers, ecologists, environmental scientists and planners
Hartemink., A.E., McBratney, A.B., Mendonça-Santos, M.L., (eds) 2008. Digital soil mapping with limited data. Springer. 445pp.
Description: There has been considerable expansion in the use of digital soil mapping technologies and development of methodologies that improve digital soil mapping at all scales and levels of resolution. These developments have occurred in all parts of the world in the past few years and also in countries where it was previously absent. There is almost always a shortage of data in soil research and its applications and this may lead to unsupported statements, poor statistics, misrepresentations and ultimately bad resource management. In digital soil mapping, maximum use is made of sparse data and this book contains useful examples of how this can be done.
This book focuses on digital soil mapping methodologies and applications for areas where data are limited, and has the following sections (i) introductory papers, (ii) dealing with limited spatial data infrastructures, (iii) methodology development, and (iv) examples of digital soil mapping in various parts of the globe (including USA, Brazil, UK, France, Czech Republic, Honduras, Kenya, Australia). The final chapter summarises priorities for digital soil mapping.
Audience: Scientists, researchers, engineers and scholars interested in new soil survey approaches with the use of numerical techniques
