Senthil Selvaradjou.ppt

Selvaradjou et al. * JRC Ispra - IES NCSS, 07/06/06 Senthil Selvaradjou European Commission Updating traditional soil maps with DSM techniques DG JRC Why is it important to be able to update traditional soil maps? ? Local knowledge on soils contained in traditional soil maps ? Usually, no associated guidelines on soil distribution rules ? Soil surveyors are now retiring and field expertise will be lost soon ? Due to lack of formalism of soil distribution, soil maps contain uncertainties which need to be removed Objectives Soil type map ? ‘Extract the soil distribution rules’ Soil covariates (RS images, DEM…) ? Update the soil map Original soil type map New soil type map Two applications ? Updating potential soil erosion assessment ? Updating the Asian part of the FAO Soil Map (1988) Soil map Soil covariates New soil type map Soil erosion map (to) Soil covariates to Soil covariates t1 MODEL ? No change in time New soil erosion map (t1) MODEL ? Change in time Methodology ? Based on the DRIS (Diagnosis Recommendation Integrated System) Approach (Beaufils, 1973) Purpose: to evaluate through indices the effect of each nutrient on the nutritional balance of the plant (agronomic issue) { 0 = deficit; 0=optimal; 0 = excess} Premices (a) Ratios among nutrients are usually better indicators of nutrient deficiencies than isolated concentrations values (b) Some nutrient ratios are more important or significant than others (c) Maximum yield are only reached when important nutrient ratios are near the ideal or optimum values (obtained from high yielding-selected populations) (d) As a consequence, the variance of an important nutrient ratio is smaller in a high yielding (reference population) than in a low yielding populations and the relations between variances of high and low yielding populations can be used in the selection of significant nutrient ratios (e) The DRIS indices can be calculated individually, for each nutrient, using the average ratio deviation obt