This book contains papers presented at the 6th Global Workshop on Digital Soil
Mapping, held 11-14 November 2014 at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese
Academy of Sciences of Nanjing, China. Digital soil mapping is advancing on
different fronts at different paces throughout the world. The researches and
applications on DSM are moving from method development to realizations in
different scales and regions, serving the generation of national and
continental to global soil grids. Meanwhile, new ideas and insights on mapping complex soil-landscapes such as flat plains,anthropogenically altered agriculture and urban spaces are emerging, with the help of new paradigms and models.The goal of the sixth workshop was to review and discuss the state of
the art in digital soil mapping, and to explore strategies for bridging
research, production, and environmental applications.

This
book provides a very useful and comprehensive overview of the status of digital
soil mapping, in which graduate students, scientists and specialists working
within the field of geography can find the spatial prediction approaches and
related theory.