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Digital Soil Mapping as a support to production of functional maps prepared by Digital Soil Mapping Working Group of the European Soil Bureau Network Edited by Endre Dobos, Florence Carré, Tomislav Hengl Hannes I. Reuter & Gergely Tóth Soilscape Inference System Function database Function organizer Prediction 0. 120 e c n 0.090 a i r a v i m 0.060 e Nugget = 0.042 S C0+C1 = 0.097 0.030 R = 175 . 2 m exponential model 400 800 1200 1600 Distance ( )m 2006 EUR 22123 EN This document may be cited as follows: Dobos, E., Carré, F., Hengl, T., Reuter, H.I., Tóth, G., 2006. 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. © European Communities, 2006 LEGAL NOTICE Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information. This publication is intended for internal JRC use only. The DSM Working Group is the advisory board made from researchers and soil mapping experts from EU countries. It has been founded at the last 2004 Plenary of the European Soil Bureau Network (Ispra, Nov 2004) as a support to the Soil Information WG. Its task is to review data, techniques and applications of digital soil mapping and to propose common methodologies for mapping European soils at different scales. Furthermore the WG Activities input to exploitation of potentials to assist the European Commission in policies related to sustainability of soils, namely to inventory and monitor soil functions for the purpose of policy making. For more info, see also http://eusoils.jrc.it Contact Dr. Endre Dobos University of Miskolc, 3515 Miskolc-Egyetemváros, Hungary Tel: +36-46-565111 (2314) E-mail: [email protected] REPORT OF THE DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING WG: "Digital Soil Mapping as a support to production of functional maps" This draft was produced through a joint effort of the members of the Digital Soil Mapping WG, coordinated by E. Dobos (University of Miskolc-Hungary) The document has been finalized on the World Soil Day, the 5th of December, 2005. List of Contributors: Lubos Boruvka Czech University of Agriculture (Praga-CZ) Florence Carré JRC (Ispra-IT) Joël Daroussin INRA (Orleans-FR) Endre Dobos University of Miskolc (Miskolc-HU) Peter Finke University of Gent (Gent-BE) Jaume Fons-Esteve EEA (Copenhague- DK) Alexandra Freudenschuss Umweltbundesamt GmbH (Vienna-AT) Anna-Rita Gentile EEA (Copenhague- DK) Mogens H. Greve Research Center Foulum (Tjele-DK) Tomislav Hengl JRC (Ispra-IT) Volker Hennings BGR (Erlangen-DE) Gerard Heuvelink Alterra (Wageningen-NL) Beata Houskova JRC (Ispra-IT) Dominique King INRA (Orleans-FR) Philippe Lagacherie INRA (Montpellier-FR) Harri Lilja MTT ( Jkoinen-FI) Thomas Mayr Cranfield University (Silsoe-EN) Luca Montanarella JRC (Ispra-IT) Erika Micheli Szent Istvan University (Godollo-HU) László Pasztor Research Institute for Soil Science and Agri.Chemistry (Budapest-HU) Hannes I. Reuter JRC (Ispra-IT) Jaroslava Sobocka Soil Science and Conservation Institute (Bratislava-SK) Fabio Terribile Università Federico II (Napoli-IT) Gergely Toth JRC (Ispra-IT) Borut Vrščaj Agricultural Insitute of Slovenia (Ljubljana-SL) DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING WG Technical report Table of contents: 1. INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................ 7 1.1 DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING WG .......................................................................................................... 7 1.2 KEY CONCEPTS (GLOSSARY AND THE FRAMEWORK )...................................................................... 8 1.3 TARGETED CLIENTS , POTENTIAL DATA USERS, POLICY RELEVANCE ............................................ 10 3.1.1 Directorate-General Environment (DG ENV ) ........................................................................ 11 3.1.2 European Environment Agency (EEA ).................................................................................... 12 3.1.3 European Soil Bureau.............................................................................................................. 12 3.1.4 Additional interested parties inside the Commission: ............................................................ 12 3.1.5 Additional interested parties outside the Commission: .......................................................... 13 3.1.6 Related activities...................................................................................................................... 13 2. STATE OF THE ART OF DSM ...................................................................................................... 14 2.1 SOIL DATA AND AUXILIARY INFORMATION .................................................................................. 14 1.2.1 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 14 1.2.2 Soil profile observations in Europe......................................................................................... 15 1.2.3 Auxiliary sources of soil-related information ........................................................................ 18 1.2.4 Conclusions.............................................................................................................................. 22 2.2 DSM MODELS ............................................................................................................................... 24 2.2.1 The different types of DSM models.......................................................................................... 24 2.2.2 Spatial Soil Inference System and Digital Soil Mapper.......................................................... 26 2.2.3 Research Agenda: .................................................................................................................... 27 2.3 ACCURACY ASSESSMENT .............................................................................................................. 29 3.2.1 DSM products .......................................................................................................................... 29 3.2.2 Accuracy measures for DSM products.................................................................................... 30 3.2.3 Accuracy estimation from DSM models .................................................................................. 31 3.2.4 Estimation of accuracy measures from independent validation data..................................... 32 3.2.5 Error propagation.................................................................................................................... 32 3.2.6 Research agenda...................................................................................................................... 33 2.4 VISUALIZATION POSSIBILITIES ...................................................................................................... 34 4.2.1 Scientific Visualization / Virtual Reality / GIS........................................................................ 34 2.4.2 3D and human brain.................................................................................................................... 35 4.2.2 Visualisation products (outputs ).............................................................................................. 35 1.4.3 Conclusions.............................................................................................................................. 37 3. MAPPING SOIL FUNCTIONS AND THREATS: SOME CASE STUDIES ............................ 38 3.1 DEFINITION OF SOIL FUNCTIONS AND THREATS ............................................................................ 38 3.1.1 Biomass production ................................................................................................................. 39 3.1.2 Environmental interaction....................................................................................................... 39 3.1.3 Biological habitat and gene reserve........................................................................................ 39 3.1.4 Physical medium ...................................................................................................................... 40 3.1.5 Source of raw materials........................................................................................................... 41 3.1.6 Cultural heritage...................................................................................................................... 41 3.1.7 Summary................................................................................................................................... 41 3.2 ASSESSING AND DISPLAYING LAND SUITABILITY ......................................................................... 42 2.3.1 Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 42 page 5 of 68 DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING WG Technical report 2.3.2 Land evaluation methods and results...................................................................................... 42 2.3.3 IT development methods and results ....................................................................................... 43 2.3.4 Conclusions.............................................................................................................................. 44 3.3 MODELLING SOIL -ENVIRONMENT ................................................................................................