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Digital soil mapping
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<p>Digital soil mapping (DSM) in <a href="/facts/Soil_science/nJ9SxpEE">soil science</a>, also referred to as predictive soil mapping or <a href="/facts/Pedometric_mapping/SUpyhd6o">pedometric mapping</a>, is the computer-assisted production of digital maps of <a href="/facts/Soil_types/j1xVUYDl">soil types</a> and soil properties. Soil mapping, in general, involves the creation and population of spatial soil information by the use of field and laboratory observational methods coupled with spatial and non-spatial soil inference systems. </p><p>The international Working Group on Digital Soil Mapping (WG-DSM) defines digital soil mapping as <i>"the creation and the population of a geographically referenced soil databases generated at a given resolution by using field and laboratory observation methods coupled with environmental data through quantitative relationships."</i> </p>