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Program

Wednesday, 1 October 2008
SESSION TIME TOPIC TITLE PRESENTER INSTITUTION
session 1 7:30 - 8.30 Registration Lobby, Eccles Conference Center, Utah State University      
8.30 - 9:00 Welcome, Introduction to Workshop goals and desired outcomes Auditorium (Room 216), Eccles Conference Center, Utah State University Janis Boettinger Utah State University
9.00 - 9:30 Keynote Presentation - DSM 2008 Soils are back on the global agenda Alfred Hartemink ISRIC - World Soil Information
9.30 - 10.00 Legacy data in DSM Keynote Soil - landscapes basis for DSM in New Zealand Allan Hewitt Landcare Research
10:00 - 10:30 Break      
10:30 1 - Legacy data in DSM. e - SOTER: regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System Vincent van Engelen ISRIC - World Soil Information
10:40 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Hierarchical Soil GIS of Russia Polina V. Koroleva V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute
10:50 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Methodology for Updating Large - Scale Soil Maps with the Use of Digital Mapping Techniques Yekaterina V. Vilchevskaya V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Russia
11:00 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Legacy soil data harmonization and database development Endre Dobos University of Miskolc
11:10 1 - Legacy data in DSM . Integrating spatial legacy data of complementary soil surveys László Pásztor Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of the
11:20 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Assessment of the areas of salt - affected soils in the European part of Russia on the basis of a digital map of salt - affected soils of Russia, 1:2.5 M scale Galina I. Chernousenko V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute
11:30 1 - Legacy data in DSM. The disaggregating and downscaling of vector soil maps Borut Vršcaj Agricultural Institute of Slovenia
11:40 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Updating the Dutch soil map using soil legacy data: a multinomial logistic regression approach Bas Kempen Wageningen University
11.50 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Mapping the extent of peatlands using GIS and legacy soil information Mogens H. Greve Árhus University
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch Rooms 205 - 207, Eccles Confererence Center, Utah State University    
13.00 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Mapping Wetlands in Mountainous Areas Using Compound Terrain Index and the National Wetland Inventory John Galbraith Virginia Tech
13.10 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Toward Digital Soil Mapping in Canada: An overview of existing soil survey data and related expert knowledge Xiaoyuan Geng Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada
13.20 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Digital Soil Property Mapping using legacy data Thomas Mayr Cranfield University
13.30 - 14.00 Discussion      
session 2 14.00 - 14.30 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates TBA    
14.30 2 - Sampling schemes,environmental covariates in DSM. Modeling Soil Depth based upon Topographic and Landscape Attributes Teklu Tesfa Utah State University
14.40 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates in DSM. Using remotely sensed vegetation cover to digitally map soils in remote, steep, humid temperate climates Bruce Frazier Washington State University
14.50 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates Applying geochronology in predictive digital mapping of soils Jay Noller Oregon State University
15.00 - 15.30 Break      
15.30 2 - Sampling schemes,environmental covariates in DSM. Land surface feedback dynamic patterns extracted from MODIS and their relationships with soil types A - Xing Zhu University of Wisconsin - Madison
15.40 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates in DSM. Applying Conditional Latin Hypercube (cLHS) for selecting soil sampling location for Digital Soil Mapping at Parque Estadual da Mata Seca, MG, Brazil Maria Mendonça - Santos Embrapa Solos
15.50 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates in DSM. Scale effects on terrain attribute calculation and their use as environmental covariates for digital soil mapping James Thompson West Virginia University
16.00 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates in DSM. A discussion of some new, or not yet widely used, approaches for analysing DEM data to extract and classify landform patterns and landform elements for use in digital soil mapping. Robert MacMillan LandMapper Environmental Solutions Inc.
16.10 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates Application of Conditioned Latin Hypercube Sampling in Arid Rangelands in Utah Colby W. Brungard Utah State University
16.20 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates in DSM. Conventional Soil Survey Methods versus Digital Soil Mapping Techniques in the Mojave Desert, California, USA Carrie - Ann Haydu - Houdeshell USDA - NRCS
16.30 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates in DSM. Remote spectral sensing of biological soil crusts in digital soil mapping, Canyonlands National Park, USA Megan Hirschi Utah State University
16.40 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates A new comprehensive method for identifying terrain shape from DEMs Jacek S. Blaszczynski BLM National Operations Center
16.50 - 17.20 Discussion      
18.30 - 20.30 Opening Social The Italian Place, 48 Federal Avenue, Downtown Logan    
Thursday, 2 October 2008
  8:00 Recap of Day1, Intro to goals of Day 2 Audiorium (Room 216), Eccles Conference Center, Utah State University    
session 3 8:20 - 8:50 Keynote for 3 (Tentative) The Soil Spectroscopy Group and the development of a global spectral library Raphael Viscarra Rossel CSIRO Land & Water
8:50 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. The use of hyperspectral imagery for Digital Soil Mapping in Mediterranean areas : first results and perspectives Philippe Lagacherie INRA LISAH
9.00 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. DSM in Rural Areas in South Africa: Various Cases, with specific reference to Agriculture. Lucky Maako Tshwane University of Technology
9.10 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. Estimation of soil variables using laboratory, field and airborne hyperspectral measurements for soil erosion assessment in agricultural ecosystems Heike Gerighausen German Aerospace Center, German Remote Sensing Data Center
9.20 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. Classifying Ugandan Dambo Wetland Soils Using Multispectral and Topographic Remote Sensing Data Philip Dennison University of Utah
9.30 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. Soil Organic Carbon Estimation from Lab - Based Spectroscopy in the State of Florida Gustavo Vasques Soil and Water Science Dept., University of Florida
9.40 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. ‘VIS/NIR mapping of SOC and extent of organic soils in the Nørre Å valley’ Maria Knadel University of Aarhus, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. of
9.50 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. Predictive soil maps based on geomorphic mapping, remote sensing, and soil databases in the desert southwest U.S.A. Steven Bacon Desert Research Institute
10.00 - 10.30 break      
10.30 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. Digital Soil Mapping Using Quantitative Hydrology Remote Sensing Emily Engle New Mexico Tech
10.40 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. Improving soil carbon mapping at field scale level by using near infrared spectroscopy and topographicalderived parameters Juan David Munoz Michigan State University
10.50 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. Potential and limitations of "on - the - go" VisNIR spectroscopy for measuring and mapping soil clay and organic carbon content Ross Bricklemyer Washington State University
11.00 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. Exploring ASTER Imagery for Digital Soils Mapping in the Mojave Desert Christine Blinn Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
11.10 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status. Using Electromagnetic Induction Images of a Watershed Subsurface to Predict Soil Textural Properties Hiruy Abdu Utah State University
11.20 3 - Sensors, technologies for soil properties/status, 6 - Protocol for making DSM operational. Digital soil - class mapping using proximal and remotely sensed data at the field level John Triantafilis UNSW
11.30 - 12.00 discussion      
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch Rooms 205 - 207, Eccles Conference Center, Utah State University    
session 4 13.00 - 13.30 4 - Innovative inference systems Topography revisited - Towards a new spatial data mining framework for terrain based digital soil mapping Thorsten Behrens University of Tübingen, Germany
13.30 4 - Innovative inference systems Large scale digital mapping of soil cover patterns Daniil Kozlov Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Russia
13.40 4 - Innovative inference systems Spatial Prediction and Uncertainty Assessment for Mapping the Spatial Distributions of Soil Organic Carbon in Hebei Province of China Yongcun Zhao State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
13.50 4 - Innovative inference systems Application of Artificial Neural Network and Decision Tree in a GIS - based Predictive Soil Mappingin sloping area. A Case Study of Hoi Num Rin Subwatershed, Thailand Ruamporn Moonjun International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation
14.00 4 - Innovative inference systems Digital Mapping of Soil Attributes in an arid and flat region Ahmad Jalalian Isfahan University of Technology
14.10 4 - Innovative inference systems Prediction of soil parameters using Artificial Neural Network Hussein Elarabi Associate Professor at BRRI, UofK
14.20 4 - Innovative inference systems Mapping heavy metal content in soils with Multi - Kernel SVR and LIDAR derived data Cristiano Ballabio Dept. of Environmental and Land Sciences. University of Milano - Bicocc
14.30 4 - Innovative inference systems Evaluation of the Transferability of a Knowledge - Based Soil - Landscape Model Jessica Philippe USDA - NRCS
14.40 4 - Innovative inference systems Mapping Soil Subsurface Structures from Borehole Observations Chuanrong Zhang University of Connecticut
14.50 4 - Innovative inference systems Random Forests Applied as a Soil Spatial Predictive Model in Arid Utah Alexander Stum USDA Natural Reources Conservation Service
14.40 - 15.20 discussion      
15.20 - 15.50 break      
session 5 15.50 - 16:30 7 - Global DSM, 6 - Protocol for making DSM Methodology for global digital soil mapping Alex mcBratney The University of Sydney
16.30 4 - Innovative inference systems Homosoil, a procedure for identifying areas with similar soil forming factors Budiman Minasny The University of Sydney
16.40 7 - Global DSM, 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Updating of small - scale soil maps of China using digital soil mapping technology Gan - Lin Zhang State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
16.50 7 - Global DSM, 6 - Protocol for making DSM GlobalSoilMap.net: Canada - United States Case Study Jon Hempel NRCS - Natural Resources Conservation Service
17.00 - 17.30 discussion      
19.00 - 22.00 Workshop Dinner, Live Music, Dancing Ballroom of The Bullen Center, Cache Valley Center for the Arts, 43 South Main, Dowtown Logan    
Friday, 3 October 2008
  8:00 Recap of Day2, Intro to goals of Day 3 Audiorium (Room 216), Eccles Conference Center, Utah State University    
session 6 8.20 - 8.50 5 - DSM products for environmental applications terraGIS - a web - based Geographic information System for natural resource management in cotton John Triantafilis UNSW
8.50 5 - DSM products for environmental applications Mapping the CN ratio of the forest litters in Europe Florence CARRE JRC
9.00 5 - DSM products for environmental applications. Using DSM data for modeling wind erosion events - bridging the gap between DSM and DSA Reuter Hannes JRC
9.10 5 - DSM products for environmental applications. Automatic Interpretation of Quickbird Imagery for Digital Soil Mapping (North Caspian Region, Russia) Maria V. Konyushkova V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute
9.20 5 - DSM products for environmental applications Monitoring of Soil Salinity in Irrigated Lands of Golodnaya Steppe (Uzbekistan) Dmitry I. Rukhovich V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Russia
9.30 5 - DSM products for environmental applications Estimating soil organic matter content by regression kriging. Alessandro Marchetti CRA - Research Centre for the Soil - Plant System
9.40 5 - DSM products for environmental applications, 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Modelling and Digital Soil Mapping of the Organic Carbon Stock in the topsoil (0 - 10 cm) of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil M.L. Mendonca - Santos Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Solos.
9.50 5 - DSM products for environmental applications, 1 - Legacy data in DSM. Comparison of Geographic Weighted Regression and Regression Kriging in predicting the SOC pool at a regional scale Umakant Mishra Ohio State University
10.00 - 10.30 break      
10.30 5 - DSM products for environmental applications Digital Soil Mapping Using Soil - Land Inference Model (SoLIM) You Jiao National Land and Water Information Service, Agricultural
10.40 5 - DSM products for environmental applications. Compiling digital soil map of China at the scale of 1:1,000,000 using Soil Taxonomy based on Soil Database of China Xuezheng Shi State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10.50 5 - DSM products for environmental applications. Compiling functional soil maps and estimating their reliability using spatio - temporal features of Digital Kreybig Soil Information System László Pásztor Research Institute for Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
11.00 5 - DSM products for environmental applications. Spatial variability of soil properties within small productive landscapes in the Central Colombian Andes Franco Obando - Moncayo Universidad de Caldas, Departamento de Sistemas de Producción
11.10 5 - DSM products for environmental applications Biogeochemical Soil - Landscape Modeling Sabine Grunwald University of Florida
11.20 5 - DSM products for environmental applications Soil Mapping by integrating Remote Sensing, Geostatistics and GIS Martin Dokiburra National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land use Planning, INDIA
11.30 5 - DSM products for environmental applications Mapping surface soil pH in Europe (Tentative) Rueter Hannes JRC
11.40 - 12.10 discussion      
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch Room 205 - 207, Eccles Conference Center, Utah State University    
session 7 13.00 - 13.30 6 - Protocol for making DSM operational - Keynote Multi - criteria Assessment of Digital Soil Modeling Approaches Sabine Grunwald University of Florida
13.40 6 - Protocol for making DSM operational, 5 - DSM products for environmental applications. Completion of Operational Predictive Ecosystem Mapping (PEM) for 8.2 Million ha in the Cariboo Forest Region of BC, Canada: Results, Lessons Learned and Initial User Applications Robert (Bob) MacMillan LandMaper Environmental Solutions Inc.
11.00 6 - Protocol for making DSM operational, 5 - DSM products for environmental applications. Landform Mapping of the North Cascades National Park, Washington Phil Roberts Washington State University
13.50 6 - Protocol for making DSM operational. National Operational Initiative DSM Coordination: Mojave Desert Case Study Amanda Moore USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
14.10 6 - Protocol for making DSM operational. 2 - Sampling schemes, environmental covariates in DSM. Applying the Optimum Index Factor to Multiple Data Types for Production Soil Survey Suzann Kienast - Brown USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
14.20 6 - Protocol for making DSM operational. USDA Forest Service TEUI - Geospatial Toolkit: Haans Fisk USDA Forest Service
14.30 6 - Protocol for making DSM operational. USDA Forest Service TEUI - Geospatial Toolkit: A Case Study in Pre - Mapping for an Ecosystem Inventory Sanford Moss USDA Forest Service
14.40 6 - Protocol for making DSM operational. Computer - assisted Geopedology for Predictive Soil Mapping D G Rossiter ITC Enschede
14.40 - 15.10 discussion      
15.10 - 15.40 break      
  15.40 rapporteur session 1      
  15.50 rapporteur session 2      
  16.00 rapporteur session 3      
  16.10 rapporteur session 4      
  16.20 rapporteur session 6 (topic 5)      
  16.30 rapporteur session 7 (topic 6)      
  16.30 - 17.00 workshop wrap - up, identify future priorities for DSM      


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