Digital Soil Mapping Across Paradigms, Scales and Boundaries [Hardcover]

This book contains papers presented at the 6th Global Workshop on Digital SoilMapping, held 11-14 November 2014 at the Institute of Soil Science, ChineseAcademy of Sciences of Nanjing, China. Digital soil mapping is advancing ondifferent fronts at different paces throughout the world. The researches andapplications on DSM are moving from method development to realizations indifferent scales and regions, serving the generation of national andcontinental to global soil grids. Meanwhile, new ideas and insights on mapping complex soil-landscapes such as flat plains,anthropogenically altered agriculture and urban spaces are emerging, with the help of new paradigms and models.The goal of the sixth workshop was to review and discuss the state ofthe art in digital soil mapping, and to explore strategies for bridgingresearch, production, and environmental applications.

Thisbook provides a very useful and comprehensive overview of the status of digitalsoil mapping, in which graduate students, scientists and specialists workingwithin the field of geography can find the spatial prediction approaches andrelated theory.             

Dr. Gan-Lin Zhang graduated from Huazhong Agricultural Universityin 1987, with the Bachelor of Agronomy and obtained his PhD of Soil Sciencefrom Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993. He waspromoted as professor of soil science in 2001. His research fields cover soilgenesis, soil classification, soil mapping and soil evaluation. He is a granteeof the Distinguished Young Scientist Fund of the National Natural ScienceFoundation. He served as the Vice-Chair and the Chair of the Commission of SoilGenesis, International Union of Soil Science (C1.3, IUSS) during 2002 and 2014.He is now the vice-chair of the Working Group of Soils of Urban, Industrial,Traffic and Mining Areas (SUITMA), IUSS. He also served thl³G