Soil Mapping for Sustainable Land Use Planning

This international conference is a joint effort of two working groups of the International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) commission “pedometrics”, namely the Digital Soil Mapping Working Group (DSMWG) and the GlobalSoilMap working group (GSM WG).

Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) is a process to generate spatial soil information integrating soil data with environmental information using (geo) statistical and machine learning approaches. The key issues of digital soil mapping include the adoption of new mapping tools and techniques, data management systems, innovative delivery of soil data, and methods to analyse, integrate, and visualize soil and environmental datasets. It has been further extended to Digital Soil Assessment that provide examples and methods for using the generated maps for various land management purposes. The DSM working group meets every two years once in different locations. Previous examples are 2016 – Aarhus (Denmark), 2014 – Nanjing (China), 2012 – Sydney (Australia), 2010 – Rome (Italy), 2008 – Logan (Utah, USA), 2006 – Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 2004 – Montpellier (France).

Key Topics for this Joint Workshop:

Advances in Digital Soil Mapping

DSM and Digital Soil Assessment

GlobalSoilMap Project