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DSM: Digital Soil Mapping
Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) is the main exploratory research thematic of the SOIL Action. Digital Soil Mapping is the creation and the population of a geographically referenced soil databases generated at a given resolution by using field and laboratory observation methods coupled with environmental data through quantitative relationships.
It has been initiated with the updating of the SOTER methodology by Endre Dobos and Joel Daroussin (2004) for mapping Soil Terrain Units in Europe. At the same time, the SOIL Action launched a European Working Group for setting up the framework and the associated concepts of DSM .
DSM outputs
The DSM outputs of the SOIL Action are:
- The SOTER Units of Hungary
- the version 3.0 of the SRTM (with filled gaps) in collaboration with the CIAT
- The pedolandscapes of the Aisne (French department) in collaboration with the French Institute of Agriculture of Beauvais
- The wind erosion map of Europe
- Soil contamination in Europe
- OSACA: A Numerical Tool for classifying soil profile
Current projects on DSM
The current projects on DSM of the SOIL Action are:
- DSM for mapping biomass production in England & Wales (in collaboration with Cranfield University)
- DSM for mapping soils of Somalia (SWALIM Project) in collaboration with MARS Food
- e-SOTER for mapping globally the Soil Terrain Units (FP7 project)
- DIGISOIL and i-SOIL(FP7 projects) for producing a multi-sensor platform for mapping directly and accurately (less than 10 m resolution) soil properties involved in land degradation and soil functions
- Global digital soil mapping for mapping soil properties involved in soil fertility and land degradation at 90 m
International collaborations
The main international collaborations are with:
- The CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture)
- USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)
- The University of Beijing
- The University of Sydney
- ISRIC - World Soil Information
Books
- A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping of Environmental Variables. EUR 22904 EN, Scientific and Technical Research series, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 143 pp. Hengl, T., 2007.
Reports
- An Innovative Approach for Updating Soil Information based on Digital Soil Mapping Technique. EUR22545, 44pp. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg (2007). Senthil-Kumar Selvaradjou, Luca Montanarella, Florence Carre, Arwyn Jones, Panos Panagos, Kaliaperumal Ragunath, Ramalingam Kumaraperumal, and Subramanian Natarajan
- Digital Soil Mapping as a support to production of functional maps. EUR 22123 EN, 68 pp. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxemburg (2006). Dobos, E., Carré, F., Hengl, T., Reuter, H.I., Tóth, G.
- SOil and TERrain (SOTER) database. EUR 21571 EN, 55 pp. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg (2005). Dobos, E., J. Daroussin and L. Montanarella.
Papers
- Digital Soil Assessments: beyond DSM. F. Carré, A.B McBratney, T. Mayr, L. Montanarella, 2007. Published by Geoderma 142, 69-79
- Evaluation of the sensitivity of European soils to the deposition of acid compounds: different approaches provide different results L. Rodríguez-Lado, L. Montanarella & F. Macías., 2007. Published by Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, Springer Netherlands., Volume 185, Numbers 1-4 / October, 2007, pp 293-303.
- Estimation and potential improvement of the quality of legacy soil samples for digital soil mapping. Carré, F., McBratney, A.B., Minasny, B., 2006. Published by Geoderma, 141, 1-14.
- Methods to interpolate soil categorical variables from profile observations: Lessons from Iran. Hengl T., Toomanian N., Reuter H.I., Malakouti M.J. (2007). Published by Geoderma, Volume 140, Issue 4, 15 August 2007, Pages 417-427
- Finding the right pixel size. T. Hengl, 2006. Computers & Geosciences Volume 32, Issue 9, November 2006, Pages 1283-1298
Presentations
- Digital Soil Mapping: Future Directions in Europe (F. Carre, L. Montanarella). National Resources Conservation Service, Madison, Wisconsin, USA - June 2007
- Soil profile distance measures and classifications (F. Carre) , Pedometrics, Aug. 2007
- Towards a soil assessment inference system in Europe: the value of Digital Soil Mapping (F. Carré, H.I. Reuter, T. Mayr, L. Montanarella), Brazilian National Soil Research Centre, July 2006
- Soilscape delineation: top-down against bottom-up approaches (F. Carré, H.I. Reuter, J. Daroussin, O. Scheurer ), Brazilian National Soil Research Centre , July 2006
- Updating traditional soil maps with DSM techniques (S. Selvaradjou), NRCS Conference
- Novel GIS and Remote Sensing-based techniques for soils at European scales (F. Carre et Al.), JRC Exploratory Research