Can citizen science assist digital soil mapping?

Geoderma

Volumn 259-260, Issue , 2015, Pages 71-80

  Rossiter, David G ^a,b   Liu, Jing ^c   Carlisle, Steve ^d   Zhu, A Xing ^c,e  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d School of Geography Nanjing Normal University ^*  (United States)

^e NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Opportunistic sampling; Predictive soil mapping; Quality assurance; Unsystematic observations

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; MAPPING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOIL SURVEYS;

DIGITAL INFORMATION; DIGITAL SOIL MAPPINGS; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; MAPPING APPLICATIONS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SOIL MAPPING; UNSYSTEMATIC OBSERVATIONS;

SOILS;

DIGITAL MAPPING; GPS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RESEARCH; SAMPLING; SOIL SCIENCE; SOIL SURVEY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84930212685     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2015.05.006     Document Type: Article

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