Broad-Scale Soil Monitoring Through a Nationwide Soil-Testing Database

Blandine Lemercier (1) , D. Arrouays (2) , Stéphane Follain , N.P.A. Saby , C. Schvartz , Christian Walter (1)

1 SAS - Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation
2 SESCPF - Service d'Etude des Sols et de la Carte Pédologique de France

Spatial variability of soil properties strongly influenced by human activity is not well documented by most soil surveys.Soil tests performed at farmers' request represent a large capital of soil information.In France, the results of a large part of these soil tests are continuously gathered in a unique database, the national soil testing database (named BDAT).The aims of the project were to analyse the evolution of soil features within discrete entities over successive time periods

Mots clés: Soil Science & Conservation; Geographical Information Systems; Cartography; Geophysics:Geodesy

Domaines: Science des sols

Blandine Lemercier, D. Arrouays, Stéphane Follain, N.P.A. Saby, C. Schvartz, et al.. Broad-Scale Soil Monitoring Through a Nationwide Soil-Testing Database. Workshop on Digital Soil Mapping for Regions and Countries with Sparse Soil Spatial Data Infrastructures, Jul 2006, Dordrecht (DE), Germany. pp. 273-281, ⟨10.1007/978-1-4020-8592-5_23⟩. ⟨hal-00729102⟩