DIGISOIL: An Integrated System of Data Collection Technologies for Mapping Soil Properties

Gilles Grandjean (1) , Olivier Cerdan (1) , Guy Richard (2) , Isabelle Cousin (2) , Philippe Lagacherie (3) , Alain Tabbagh (4) , Bas van Wesemael (5) , Antoine Stevens (5) , Sébastien Lambot (5) , Florence Carre (6) , Raluca Maftei (7) , Tamas Herrmann (8) , Mats Thörnelöf (9) , Leandro Chiarantini (10) , Sandro Moretti (11) , Bratney Mc (12) , Eyal Ben Dor (13)

1 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)
2 Unité de Science du Sol
3 UMR LISAH - Laboratoire d'étude des Interactions Sol - Agrosystème - Hydrosystème
4 SISYPHE - Structure et fonctionnement des systèmes hydriques continentaux
5 UCL GEO - Département de Géographie
6 Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit
7 Natural Hazard Department
8 Soil Science Department
9 ABEM
10 Optic Department
11 Natural Hazard Department
12 Soil Science Department
13 Soil Science Department

The multidisciplinary DIGISOIL consortium intends to integrate and improve in situ proximal measurement technologies for assessing soil properties and soil degradation indicators, moving from the sensing technologies themselves to their integration and application in (digital) soil mapping (DSM). The core objective of the project is to explore and exploit new capabilities of advanced geophysical technologies for answering this societal demand. To this aim, DIGISOIL addresses four issues covering technological, soil science, and economic aspects: (i) development and validation of hydrogeophysical technologies and integrated pedo-geophysical inversion techniques; (ii) the relation between geophysical parameters and soil properties; (iii) the integration of derived soil properties for mapping soil functions and soil threats; and (iv) the evaluation, standardisation, and industrialisation of the proposed methodologies, including technical and economic studies.

Keywords: Digital soil mapping; geophysics

Domains: Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Geophysics [physics.geo-ph]; Global Changes

Gilles Grandjean, Olivier Cerdan, Guy Richard, Isabelle Cousin, Philippe Lagacherie, et al.. DIGISOIL: An Integrated System of Data Collection Technologies for Mapping Soil Properties. Proximal Soil Sensing, Springer, pp.89-101, 2010, Progress in soil science, 978-90-481-8858-1 978-90-481-8859-8 978-94-007-3288-9. ⟨10.1007/978-90-481-8859-8_7⟩. ⟨hal-00548807⟩