Overview
- Provides Tools and Techniques for Soil Profile Observations, Continuous Depth Functions of Soil Properties and Mapping the Soil Profile
- Contains Selected Material from the Inaugural Global Workshop on Digital Soil Morphometrics
- This book provides valuable information on soil profile properties, imaging, and depth functions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Progress in Soil Science (PROSOIL)
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About this book
This book is about digital soil morphometrics which is defined as the application of tools and techniques for measuring, mapping and quantifying soil profile properties, and deriving depth functions of soil properties. The book is structured along four research topics: (i) Soil profile properties, (ii) Soil profile imaging, (iii) Soil depth functions, and (iv) Use and applications. The pedon is at the heart of digital soil morphometrics. The use of digital soil morphometrics exceeds the pedology and soil classification purpose that it currently serves – it is used in rapid soil assessment that are needed in a range of biophysical studies.
Digital soil morphometrics has the potential to enhance our understanding of soils and how we view them. The book presents highlights from The IUSS Inaugural Global Workshop on Digital Soil Morphometrics held in June 2015 in Madison, USA.
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Soil Profile Properties
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Soil Profile Imaging
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Soil Morphometrics
Editors: Alfred E. Hartemink, Budiman Minasny
Series Title: Progress in Soil Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28295-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28294-7Published: 18 April 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80318-0Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28295-4Published: 06 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2352-4774
Series E-ISSN: 2352-4782
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 442
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations, 122 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soil Science & Conservation, Physical Geography, Earth System Sciences