Environmental Soil-Landscape Modeling

Book excerpt: Section 1. History and trends in soil-landscape modeling. Soil survey and soil classification. A historical perspective on soil-landscape modeling. Geomorphological soil-landscape models. Section 2. Collection of soil-landscape datsets. Topographic mapping. Section 3. pedometrics. Digital soil-terrain modeling: the predictive potential and uncertainty. Fuzzy logic models. Modeling spatial variations of soil as random functions. Stochastic simulation of soil variations. Pedometrical techniques for soil texture mapping at different scales. Analysis of complex soil variation using wavelets. Three-dimensional reconstruction and scientific visualization of soil-landscapes. On spatial lattice modeling of soil properties. Multiscale soil-landscape process modeling. Space-time geostatistics.