Pedometrics (Progress in Soil Science)

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Front Matter ....Pages 1-6 Scope of Pedometrics (Alex. B. McBratney, R. Murray Lark)....Pages 7-39 Front Matter ....Pages 41-41 Soil Statistical Description and Measurement Scales (Thomas F. A. Bishop, Alex. B. McBratney)....Pages 43-57 Statistical Distributions of Soil Properties (Alex. B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, Irina Mikheeva, Melissa Moyce, Thomas F. A. Bishop)....Pages 59-86 Effective Multivariate Description of Soil and Its Environment (Alex. B. McBratney, Mario Fajardo, Brendan P. Malone, Thomas F. A. Bishop, Uta Stockmann, Inakwu O. A. Odeh)....Pages 87-112 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Pedometric Treatment of Soil Attributes (Uta Stockmann, Edward J. Jones, Inakwu O. A. Odeh, Alex. B. McBratney)....Pages 115-153 Scaling Characteristics of Soil Structure (Ana M. Tarquis, Iván G. Torre, Juan J. Martín-Sotoca, Juan C. Losada, Juan B. Grau, Nigel R. A. Bird et al.)....Pages 155-193 Pedotransfer Functions and Soil Inference Systems (José Padarian, Jason Morris, Budiman Minasny, Alex. B. McBratney)....Pages 195-220 Front Matter ....Pages 221-221 Soil Material Classes (Nathan P. Odgers, Alex. B. McBratney)....Pages 223-264 Soil Profile Classes (Nathan P. Odgers, Alex. B. McBratney, Florence Carré)....Pages 265-288 Front Matter ....Pages 289-289 Classical Soil Geostatistics (R. Murray Lark, Budiman Minasny)....Pages 291-340 Model-Based Soil Geostatistics (Ben P. Marchant)....Pages 341-371 Digital Mapping of Soil Classes and Continuous Soil Properties (Brendan P. Malone, Nathan P. Odgers, Uta Stockmann, Budiman Minasny, Alex. B. McBratney)....Pages 373-413 Vis-NIR-SWIR Remote Sensing Products as New Soil Data for Digital Soil Mapping (Philippe Lagacherie, Cécile Gomez)....Pages 415-437 Uncertainty and Uncertainty Propagation in Soil Mapping and Modelling (Gerard B. M. Heuvelink)....Pages 439-461 Complex Soil Variation over Multiple Scales (R. Murray Lark, Alice E. Milne)....Pages 463-490 Pedodiversity (Mario Fajardo, Alex. B. McBratney)....Pages 491-519 Pedometric Valuation of the Soil Resource (David G. Rossiter, Allan E. Hewitt, Estelle J. Dominati)....Pages 521-546 Front Matter ....Pages 547-548 Clorpt Functions (Uta Stockmann, Budiman Minasny, Alex. B. McBratney)....Pages 549-554 One-, Two- and Three-Dimensional Pedogenetic Models (Uta Stockmann, Sebastien Salvador-Blanes, Tom Vanwalleghem, Budiman Minasny, Alex. B. McBratney)....Pages 555-593 Front Matter ....Pages 595-595 Site-Specific Crop Management (Brett Whelan)....Pages 597-622 Variograms of Soil Properties for Agricultural and Environmental Applications (Stacey Paterson, Alex. B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, Matthew J. Pringle)....Pages 623-667 Broad-Scale Soil Monitoring Schemes (Dominique Arrouays, Ben P. Marchant, Nicolas P. A. Saby, Jeroen Meersmans, Thomas G. Orton, Manuel P. Martin et al.)....Pages 669-691 Farm-Scale Soil Carbon Auditing (Jaap J. de Gruijter, Alex. B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, Ichsani Wheeler, Brendan P. Malone, Uta Stockmann)....Pages 693-720