Soils are essential for supporting food production and providing ecosystem services but are
under pressure due to population growth, higher food demand, and land use competition …

Soaring food demand, population pressure, land degradation, small size of agricultural land
holdings, and diversified soil types in India require advanced digital soil map** (DSM) for …

Understanding the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) content over different
climatic regions will enhance our knowledge of carbon gains and losses due to climatic …

Soil texture is the most important soil physical property that determines water holding
capacity, nutrient availability and crop growth. Spatial distribution of soil texture at a higher …

Spatial soil information in forests is crucial to assess ecosystem services such as carbon
storage, water purification or biodiversity. However, spatially continuous information on soil …

Spatial information of soil carbon storage at national and global level is essential for soil
quality and environmental management. Improved knowledge on the amount and spatial …

Map** soil resources at a national scale in large countries such as India is a challenge
because of limited soil data available and efforts to collect them. Legacy soil information …

Present global maps of soil water retention (SWR) are mostly derived from pedotransfer
functions (PTFs) applied to maps of other basic soil properties. As an alternative,'point …

Accurate and high resolution spatial soil information is essential for efficient and sustainable
land use, management and conservation. Since the establishment of digital soil map** …

Water and nutrient holding capacities are primarily controlled by the secondary soil
parameters of water retention characteristics and cation exchange capacities (CEC) …