Digital soil mapping is a runaway success. It has changed the way we approach soil resource assessment all over the world. New quantitative DSM products with associated uncertainty are appearing weekly. Many techniques and approaches have been developed. We can map the whole world or a farmer’s field. All of this has happened since the turn of the millennium. DSM is now beginning to be taught in tertiary institutions everywhere. Government agencies and private companies are building capacity in this area. Both practitioners of conventional soil mapping methods and undergraduate and research students will benefit from following the easily laid out text and associated scripts in this book carefully crafted by Brendan Malone and colleagues.
Have fun and welcome to the digital soil century.
Orleans, France, August 2016.
Dominique Arrouays, Scientific coordinator of GlobalSoilMap.
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