Edited by
Philippe Lagacherie, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire sur les Interactions Sol-Agrosystème-Hydrosystème, UMR LISAH AgroM-INRA-IRD, Montpellier, FRANCE
Alex McBratney, Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Marc Voltz, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Laboratoire sur les Interactions Sol-Agrosystème-Hydrosystème, UMR LISAH AgroM-INRA-IRD, Montpellier, FRANCE
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.
Included in series
Developments in Soil Science
Audience:
Soil scientists, physical geographers, ecologists, environmental scientists and planners.
