Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) can be an alternative data source for spatializing crop models over large areas. The objective of the paper was to evaluate the impact of DSM products and their uncertainties on a crop model's outputs in an 80 km(2) catchment in south India. We used a crop model called STICS and evaluated two essential soil functions: the...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
This paper aims to create spatial maps (SMs) using a spatial interpolation technique based on extensive geotechnical subsoil data derived from comprehensive field and laboratory investigations. Sialkot, a rapidly developing industrial and agricultural district, is used as a case study. The subsoil information was assessed in terms of Standard Penet...
Soil Security includes dimensions, soil capability, soil condition, soil capital, soil connectivity and soil codification (the “five C's”). This article provides a short review on how soil mapping, digital soil mapping and soil monitoring systems (SM, DSM and SMS) over large areas contribute to these five C's at scales ranging from country to globe...
Published in PeerJ
Texture strongly influences the soil’s fundamental functions in forest ecosystems. In response to the growing demand for information on soil properties for environmental modeling, more and more studies have been conducted over the past decade to assess the spatial variability of soil properties on a regional to global scale. These investigations re...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Estimation and monitoring of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is important for maintaining soil productivity and meeting climate change mitigation targets. Current global SOC maps do not provide enough detail for landscape-scale decision making, and do not allow for tracking carbon sequestration or loss over time. Using an optical satellite-driven ...
Published in Precision Agriculture
Accurate soil mapping is critical for a highly-automated agricultural vehicle to successfully accomplish important tasks including seeding, ploughing, fertilising and controlled traffic, with limited human supervision, ensuring at the same time high safety standards. In this research, a multi-sensor ground mapping and characterisation approach is p...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
Karst poljes in the Dinaric Mountains have a complex hydrological regime and high potential for crop production. Little information is available about soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), carbon stocks (SOCS), and nitrogen stocks (TNS) in karst poljes located in the Dinaric area. The objective of this paper was to study the spatial distr...
One of the first soil forming processes in marine and fluviatile clay soils is ripening, the irreversible change of physical and chemical soil properties, especially consistency, under influence of air. We used Bayesian binomial logistic regression (BBLR) to update the map showing unripened subsoils for a reclamation area in the west of The Netherl...
The soil genoform vs. soil phenoform distinction was suggested twenty years ago by Droogers and Bouma to recognize management-induced differences among pedons with the same long-term pedogenesis and included in the same soil map unit, these changes being sufficient to cause important and persistent differences in soil functions. To support the rece...
Visible Near-Infrared (Vis-NIR, 400-2500 nm) hyperspectral imaging has proven to be a valuable tool for mapping soil properties over bare soils. To date, most predictive models presented in literature, have been built from calibration databases made up of both Vis-NIR imaging spectra (predictor variables) and soil properties (response variables). N...
