This book presents the basic concepts of quantitative soil science and, within this framework, it seeks to construct a new body of knowledge. There is a growing need for quantitative approach in soil science, which arises from a general demand for improved economic production and environmental management. Pedometrics can be defined as the development and application of statistical and mathematical methods applicable to data analysis problems in soil science. This book shows how pedometrics can address key soil-related questions from a quantitative point of view. It addresses four main areas which are akin to the problems of conventional pedology: (i) Understanding the pattern of soil distribution in character space soil classification, (ii) Understanding soil spatial and temporal variation, (iii) Evaluating the utility and quality of soil and ultimately, (iv) Understanding the genesis of soil. This is the first book that address these problems in a coherent quantitate approach.
Preface.- Part 1: An introduction: What is pedometrics?.
Chapter
1.
Scope of pedometrics (Alex B. McBratney).- Part 2: Statistical footings.-
Chapter
2. Soil statistical description and measurement scales (Thomas
Bishop).
Chapter
3. Statistical distributions of soil (Irena Mikheeva).-
Chapter
4. Effective multivariate description of soil and its environment
(Mario Fajardo).- Part 3: Soil measurements and attributes.
Chapter
5.
Pedometric treatment of soil attributes (Uta Stockmann).
Chapter
6. Scaling
characteristics of soil structure (Ana M. Tarquis).
Chapter
7. Pedotransfer
functions and soil inference systems (José Padarian).- Part 4: Soil
materials, horizons and profiles.
Chapter
8. Soil material and horizon
classes (Nathan Odgers).
Chapter
9. Soil profiles and profile classes
(Florence Carré).- Part 5: Soil variation in space and time.
Chapter
10.
Classical soil geostatistics (Murray Lark).
Chapter
11. Model-based soil
geostatistics.
Chapter
12. Digital mapping of soil classes and continuous
soil properties (Brendan P. Malone).
Chapter
13. Vis-NIR-SWIR remote sensing
products as new soil data for Digital Soil Mapping (Philippe Lagacherie).-
Chapter
14. Uncertainty and uncertainty propagation in soil mapping and
modelling (Gerard Heuvelink).
Chapter
15. Complex soil variation over
multiple scales (Murray Lark).
Chapter
16. Pedodiversity, soil reserves and
restoration (Mario Fajardo).
Chapter
17. Pedometric valuation of the soil
resource (David Rossiter).- Part 6: Soil genesis.
Chapter
18. Clorpt
functions (Uta Stockmann).
Chapter
19. One- Two- and Three- D pedogenetic
models (Sebastien Salvador).- Part 7: Applications of pedometrics.
Chapter
20. Site-specific crop management (Brett Whelan).
Chapter
21. Variograms of
soil properties for agricultural environmental applications (Stacey
Paterson).
Chapter
22. Broad-scale soil monitoring schemes (Dominique
Arrouays).
Chapter
23. Farm-scale soil carbon auditing (Jaap de Gruiter).
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