Modeling soil processes: Review, key challenges, and new perspectives

H Vereecken, A Schnepf, JW Hopmans… - Vadose zone …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

GlobalSoilMap: Toward a fine-resolution global grid of soil properties

D Arrouays, MG Grundy, AE Hartemink, JW Hempel… - Advances in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Soil scientists are being challenged to provide assessments of soil condition from local
through to global scales. A particular issue is the need for estimates of the stores and fluxes …

Map** soil properties of Africa at 250 m resolution: Random forests significantly improve current predictions

T Hengl, GBM Heuvelink, B Kempen, JGB Leenaars… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
80% of arable land in Africa has low soil fertility and suffers from physical soil problems.
Additionally, significant amounts of nutrients are lost every year due to unsustainable soil …

Digital soil map**: A brief history and some lessons

B Minasny, AB McBratney - Geoderma, 2016 - Elsevier
Digital soil map** (DSM) is a successful sub discipline of soil science with an active
research output. The success of digital soil map** is a confluence of several factors in the …

A global soil data set for earth system modeling

W Shangguan, Y Dai, Q Duan, B Liu… - Journal of Advances in …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We developed a comprehensive, gridded Global Soil Dataset for use in Earth System
Models (GSDE) and other applications. The GSDE provides soil information, such as soil …

A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling

W Shangguan, Y Dai, B Liu, A Zhu… - Journal of Advances …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A comprehensive 30× 30 arc‐second resolution gridded soil characteristics data set of
China has been developed for use in the land surface modeling. It includes physical and …

High-resolution and three-dimensional map** of soil texture of China

F Liu, GL Zhang, X Song, D Li, Y Zhao, J Yang, H Wu… - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
The lack of detailed three-dimensional soil texture information largely restricts many
applications in agriculture, hydrology, climate, ecology and environment. This study …

Soil property and class maps of the conterminous United States at 100‐meter spatial resolution

A Ramcharan, T Hengl, T Nauman… - Soil Science Society …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas Ensemble machine learning methods were used to obtain gridded soil property
and class maps. Final predictions were generated for six soil properties and two soil classes …

Digital map** of soil organic carbon contents and stocks in Denmark

K Adhikari, AE Hartemink, B Minasny, R Bou Kheir… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Estimation of carbon contents and stocks are important for carbon sequestration,
greenhouse gas emissions and national carbon balance inventories. For Denmark, we …

Global soil organic carbon assessment

U Stockmann, J Padarian, A McBratney, B Minasny… - Global Food …, 2015 - Elsevier
Soil carbon is a key component of functional ecosystems and crucial for food, soil, water and
energy security. Climate change and altered land-use are having a great impact on soils …