1st Edition
Digital Soil Assessments and Beyond Proceedings of the 5th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping 2012, Sydney, Australia
Digital soil assessments and beyond contains papers presented at the 5th Global Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping, held 10-13 April 2012 at the University of Sydney, Australia. The contributions demonstrate the latest developments in digital soil mapping as a discipline with a special focus on the use of map products to drive policy decisions particularly on climate change and food, water and soil security. The workshop and now this resulting publication have better united formerly disparate subdisciplines in soil science: pedology (study of the formation, distribution and potential use of soils) and pedometrics (quantitative and statistical analysis of soil variation in space and time). This book compiles papers covering a range of topics: digital soil assessment, digital soil modelling, operational soil mapping, soil and environmental covariates, soil sampling and monitoring and soil information modelling, artificial intelligence and cyber-infrastructure, and GlobalSoilMap. Digital soil assessments and beyond aims to encourage new mapping incentives and stimulate new ideas to make digital soil mapping practicable from local to national and ultimately global scales.
Digital soil assessments
Digital soil assessment: Guiding irrigation expansion in Tasmania, Australia
D.B. Kidd, M.A. Webb, C.J. Grose, R.M. Moreton, B.P. Malone, A.B. McBratney, B. Minasny, R.A. Viscarra-Rossel, W.E. Cotching, L.A. Sparrow & R. Smith
Frameworks for digital soil assessment
A.B. McBratney, B. Minasny, I. Wheeler, B.P. Malone & D. van der Linden
Soil natural capital definition using land evaluation principles
A.E. Hewitt, T. Webb, E. Dominati & C. Hedley
Spatial modeling of human exposure to soil contamination – an example of digital soil assessment
J. Caudeville, P. Goovaerts, F. Carre, R. Bonnard, D. Arrouays, A. Cicolella, C.C. Jolivet, N.P.A. Saby & C. Boudet
A pedometric approach to valuing the soil resource
D.G. Rossiter
Development of terrons for the Lower Hunter Valley wine-growing region
P. Hughes, A.B. McBratney, B.P. Malone & B. Minasny
Spatial agricultural soil quality evaluation based on digital soil maps and uncertainty analysis
X.L. Sun, Y.G. Zhao, M.S. Zhao & G.L. Zhang
Digital soil mapping in the environment
High resolution soil moisture mapping
J.P. Walker, G. Dumedah, A. Monerris, Y. Gao, C. Rudiger, X. Wu, R. Panciera, O. Merlin, R. Pipunic, D. Ryu & M. Zreda
Soil carbon density under eucalypt forests in Australia
E.N. Bui
Spatial prediction of biological soil crust classes: Value added DSM from soil survey
C.B. Brungard & J.L. Boettinger
Modelling the effect of soil type and grazing on nitrogen cycling in a tropical grazing system
M.J. Pringle, D.E. Allen, J.E. Payne, R.C. Dalal & B.P. Marchant
A digital soil map of Phytophthora cinnamomi in the Gondwana Rainforests of eastern Australia
T.F.A. Bishop, R. Daniel, D.I. Guest, M.A. Nelson & C. Chang
Modelling soil-regolith thickness in complex weathered landscapes of the central Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia
J. Wilford & M. Thomas
Exploring short-term soil landscape formation in the Hunter Valley, NSW, using gamma ray spectrometry
U. Stockmann, B. Minasny, A.B. McBratney, G.R. Hancock & G.R. Willgoose
Spatial variability of the active layer, permafrost, and soil profile depth in Alaskan soils
U. Mishra & W.J. Riley
Soil maps, legacy data & covariates
Updating legacy soil data for digital soil mapping
B. Kempen, D.J. Brus, F. de Vries & B. Engel
Harmonization of legacy soil maps in North America: Status, trends, and implications for digital soil mapping efforts
J.A. Thompson, T.W. Nauman, N.P. Odgers, Z. Libohova & J.W. Hempel
Cross-regional digital soil carbon modeling in two contrasting soil-ecological regions in the US
B. Cao, S. Grunwald & X. Xiong
Which covariates are needed for soil carbon models in Florida?
X. Xiong, S. Grunwald, D.B. Myers, J. Kim, W.G. Harris & N.B. Comerford
A pragmatic quantitative model for soil organic carbon distribution in eastern Australia
J. Gray, T.F.A. Bishop, P. Smith, N.J. Robinson & D. Brough
Spatial resolution effects of remote sensing images on digital soil models in aquatic ecosystems
J. Kim, S. Grunwald, T.Z. Osborne, R. Robbins, H. Yamataki & R.G. Rivero
Digital soil modelling
The potential role of pedogenesis modelling in digital soil mapping
G.R. Willgoose, G.R. Hancock & S. Cohen
Some methods regarding manipulations of scale for digital soil mapping
B.P. Malone, A.B. McBratney & B. Minasny
Scale-specific control of soil water storage using multivariate empirical mode decomposition
W. Hu, A. Biswas, B.C. Si
Mapping the occurrence and thickness of soil horizons within soil profiles
G. Gastaldi, B. Minasny & A.B. McBratney
Spatial prediction of soil organic carbon of Crete by using geostatistics
E. Aksoy, P. Panagos & L. Montanarella
Predicting soil organic carbon using mixed conceptual and geostatistical models
J.M. Goodman, P.R. Owens & Z. Libohova
Spatial stochastic modeling of topsoil organic carbon content over a cultivated peri-urban region, using soil properties, soil types and a digital elevation model
J. Hamiache, L. Bel, E. Vaudour & J.M. Gilliot
Soil climate indicators from the Geographically Explicit Newhall Simulation Model (GEN) as potential environmental covariates in digital soil mapping applications
H.E. Winzeler, P.R. Owens, S.W. Waltman, Z. Libohova & W.J. Waltman
Digital mapping of phosphorus status using soil test and geophysical data
M.T.F. Wong, A. Castrignano & D. De Benedetto
Uncertainty estimation for weighted-means digital soil maps
N.P. Odgers, J.A. Thompson, Z. Libohova & A.B. McBratney
Digital mapping of soil classes
Digital soil-class mapping across the Edgeroi district using numerical clustering and gamma-ray spectrometry data
J. Triantafilis, N.Y. Earl & I.D. Gibbs
Digital soil mapping: Strategy for data pre-processing
A. ten Caten, R.S. Diniz Dalmolin, L.F. Chimelo Ruiz & M.L. Mendonca-Santos
Digital soil mapping of soil classes using decision trees in central Iran
R. Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, B. Minasny, A.B. McBratney, J. Triantafilis, F. Sarmadian & N. Toomanian
Fuzzy disaggregation of conventional soil maps using database knowledge extraction to produce soil property maps
T.W. Nauman, J.A. Thompson, N.P. Odgers & Z. Libohova
Towards a model for predicting soil classes in low relief and deeply weathered landscapes of the Northern Territory
G.A. Owen
Use of weights of evidence statistics to define inference rules to disaggregate soil survey maps
C.A.S. Smith, B. Daneshfar, G. Frank, E. Flager & C. Bulmer
Sampling and monitoring in DSM
The effect of preferential sampling on sampling variance
D. Clifford, P. Kuhnert, M. Dobbie, J. Baldock, B. Harch, N.J. McKenzie, I. Wheeler & A.B. McBratney
A conditioned Latin hypercube sampling algorithm incorporating operational constraints
P. Roudier, A.E. Hewitt & D.E. Beaudette
Soil survey design for management-scale digital soil mapping in a mountainous southern Philippine catchment
M. Thomas, N.P. Odgers, A. Ringrose-Voase, G. Grealish, M. Glover & T. Dowling
Spatial and temporal prediction of soil properties from legacy data
B.P. Marchant, D.M. Crawford & N.J. Robinson
Mapping the temporal change of soil carbon: A case study from northern New South Wales, Australia
S.B. Karunaratne, T.F.A. Bishop, I.O.A. Odeh, J. Baldock & B.P. Marchant
Number of sampling points influences the parameters of soil properties spatial distribution and kriged maps
R. Vašat, L. Borůvka & O. Jakšik
Digital Soil Mapping to inform design-based sampling strategies for estimating total organic carbon stocks at the farm scale
I. Wheeler, A.B. McBratney, B. Minasny & J.J. de Gruijter
Cyber infrastructure & expert system in DSM
OneGeology—Improving global access to geoscience
B.A. Simons, O. Raymond, I. Jackson & K. Lee
Multi-scale feature data and landscape analysis toolkit for predictive soil mapping
X. Geng, R. Burcher, D. Kroetsch & S. Mitchell
The LIFE+ SOILCONSWEB project: A web based spatial decision support system embedding DSM engines
G. Langella, A. Basile, A. Bonfante, P. Manna & F. Terribile
The role of soil inference systems in digital soil assessments
J.C. Morris, B. Minasny & A.B. McBratney
Worldgrids—a public repository of global soil covariates
H.I. Reuter & T. Hengl
Digital Soil Map data in an on-line, on-demand world
P.L. Wilson, D. Jacquier & B.A. Simons
Operational DSM
Digital Soil Mapping in a changing world
S. Grunwald, J.A. Thompson, B. Minasny & J.L. Boettinger
Digital soil mapping in Ontario, Canada: An example using high resolution LiDAR
J.D. Aspinall & S.J. Sweeney
Using Pedotransfer functions for estimating soil pH and bulk density at regional scale
Z. Libohova, S. Wills, J.W. Hempel, N.P. Odgers & J.A. Thompson
Soil-landscape models to predict soil pH variation in the Subang region of West Java, Indonesia
Y. Sulaeman, M. Sarwani, B. Minasny, A.B. McBratney, A. Sutandi & B. Barus
Mapping the presence of red clay subsoil in the Driftless area of Wisconsin, USA
D. Evans & A.E. Hartemink
Modelling the distribution of organic carbon in the soils of Chile
J. Padarian, J. Perez-Quezada & O. Seguel
Rapid soil mapping under restrictive conditions in Tete, Mozambique
G.M. van Zijl, P.A.L. le Roux & H.J.C. Smith
High resolution 3D mapping for soil organic carbon assessment in a rural landscape
M. Lacoste, D. Michot, V. Viaud, C. Walter, B. Minasny & A.B. McBratney
Seasonal soil salinity monitoring in oasis ecosystems by EM conductivity
I. Berkal, C. Walter, D. Michot & K. Djili
Downscaling for site-specific crop management needs?
B.M. Whelan & A.B. McBratney
Estimation of soil organic carbon stock in subtropical forest region based on digital soil map in Taiwan
C.C. Tsai, Z.S. Chen & C.T. Duh
Proximal, remote sensing and spectroscopy of soil
Mapping surface soil mineralogy using hyperspectral and ASTER imagery: An example from Mullewa, Western Australia
I.C. Lau, T.J. Cudahy, M.C. Caccetta, C. Kobayashi, O. Kashimura, M. Kato,
G.A. Wheaton & D.J. Carter
Retrieval of composite mineralogy by VNIR spectroscopy
V.L. Mulder, S. de Bruin & M.E. Schaepman
Organic matter prediction for Korean soils using visible-near infrared reflectance spectroscopy
H.C. Chun, S.Y. Hong, K.C. Song, Y.H. Kim, B.K. Hyun & B. Minasny
A novel spectro-temporal approach for predicting soil physical properties
J-D. Sylvain, A.R. Michaud, M.C. Nolin & G.B. Benie
Using Vis-NIR hyperspectral data to map topsoil properties over bare soils in the Cap Bon region, Tunisia
C. Gomez, P. Lagacherie & S. Bacha
Co-kriging of soil properties with Vis-NIR hyperspectral covariates in the Cap Bon region (Tunisia)
R. Ciampalini, P. Lagacherie, P. Monestiez, E. Walker & C. Gomez
Soil Classification based calibration of Visible and Near Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy (VNIR-DRS) for predicting soil properties
D.W. Wu, Y.G. Zhao, D.C. Li, F. Liu & G.L. Zhang
Development of a Danish national Vis-NIR soil spectral library for soil organic carbon determination
M. Knadel, F. Deng, A. Thomsen & M.H. Greve
Soil profile organic carbon prediction with visible-near infrared reflectance spectroscopy based on a national database
F. Deng, M. Knadel, Y. Peng, G. Heckrath, M.H. Greve & B. Minasny
Sampling for field measurement of soil carbon using Vis-NIR spectroscopy
K. Singh, B. Minasny, A.B. McBratney, M.G. Short & F. Namazi
Prediction of field capacity and permanent wilting point using rapid soil sensing approaches
N.J. Robinson, M. Kitching, M.A. Rab & P.D. Fisher
GlobalSoilMap.net
Versioning of GlobalSoilMap.net raster property maps for the North American Node
J.W. Hempel, Z. Libohova, N.P. Odgers, J.M. Thompson, S.S. Smith & G.W. Lelyk
Digital soil mapping of soil properties for Korean soils
S.Y. Hong, Y.H. Kim, K.H. Han, B.K. Hyun, Y.S. Zhang, K.C. Song, B. Minasny & A.B. McBratney
Documenting GlobalSoilMap.net grid cells from legacy measured soil profile and global available covariates in Northern Tunisia
R. Ciampalini, P. Lagacherie & H. Hamrouni
Progress towards GlobalSoilMap.net soil database of Denmark
K. Adhikari, R. Bou Kheir, M.B. Greve, P.K. Bocher, M.H. Greve, B.P. Malone, B. Minasny & A.B. McBratney
The challenges of collating legacy data for digital mapping of Nigerian soils
I.O.A. Odeh, J. Leenaars, A.E. Hartemink & I. Amapu
An Australian soil grid: Infrastructure and function
M.J. Grundy, R.D. Searle & J.B. Robinson
Author index
Biography
Budiman Minasny is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Agriculture & Environment at the University of Sydney in Australia. He was awarded the QEII Fellowship from the Australian Research Council to develop methodologies for creating a global soil map. His research interest is to link soil observations with process-based models and also to develop empirical models to allow greater understanding of soil variation in space and time.
Brendan Malone is a research fellow of Digital Soil Mapping in the Faculty of Agriculture & Environment at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is working on an Australian Research Council linkage project with the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment where he is developing new and updated spatial soil information systems for new sustainable irrigated agriculture in Tasmania, Australia. Brendan’s research interest is in furthering methodologies for digital soil assessments and aligning soil information and related products to the needs and specifications of the soil information end-users.
Alex McBratney is Professor of Soil Science in the Faculty of Agriculture & Environment at the University of Sydney in Australia. He is chief editor of the global soil science journal, Geoderma, and co-editor-in-chief of the book series Progress in Soil Science. Alex is a consummate pedometrician and soil scientist striving to understand soil variation in all its dimensions.