Pedometrics

First book of its kind that addresses pedometrics as a new discipline to study soil

Real-world application for solving soil and environmental problems

Includes topical issues, such as soil carbon sequestration

Contenu

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).