Digital mapping of GlobalSoilMap soil properties at a broad scale: A review

S Chen, D Arrouays, VL Mulder, L Poggio, B Minasny… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Soils are essential for supporting food production and providing ecosystem services but are
under pressure due to population growth, higher food demand, and land use competition …

Climate-smart soils

K Paustian, J Lehmann, S Ogle, D Reay, GP Robertson… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Soils are integral to the function of all terrestrial ecosystems and to food and fibre production.
An overlooked aspect of soils is their potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions …

Realizing the potential of digital development: The case of agricultural advice

R Fabregas, M Kremer, F Schilbach - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Sustainably raising agricultural productivity for the 2 billion people living in
smallholder farming households in the developing world is critical for reducing world poverty …

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

T Hengl, J Mendes de Jesus, GBM Heuvelink… - PLoS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
This paper describes the technical development and accuracy assessment of the most
recent and improved version of the SoilGrids system at 250m resolution (June 2016 update) …

Linking soils to ecosystem services—A global review

K Adhikari, AE Hartemink - Geoderma, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil plays a crucial role in ecosystem functioning. In the 1990s ecosystem services (ES)
research focused on developing the concept and framework and only a few studies linked …

[HTML][HTML] A global spectral library to characterize the world's soil

RAV Rossel, T Behrens, E Ben-Dor, DJ Brown… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil provides ecosystem services, supports human health and habitation, stores carbon and
regulates emissions of greenhouse gases. Unprecedented pressures on soil from …

A review on regional convection‐permitting climate modeling: Demonstrations, prospects, and challenges

AF Prein, W Langhans, G Fosser… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Regional climate modeling using convection‐permitting models (CPMs; horizontal grid
spacing< 4 km) emerges as a promising framework to provide more reliable climate …

Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: Challenges and perspectives

K Van Looy, J Bouma, M Herbst, J Koestel… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides
multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to …

The future of Earth observation in hydrology

MF McCabe, M Rodell, DE Alsdorf… - Hydrology and earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
In just the past 5 years, the field of Earth observation has progressed beyond the offerings of
conventional space-agency-based platforms to include a plethora of sensing opportunities …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of global agricultural monitoring systems and current gaps

S Fritz, L See, JCL Bayas, F Waldner, D Jacques… - Agricultural systems, 2019 - Elsevier
Global and regional scale agricultural monitoring systems aim to provide up-to-date
information regarding food production to different actors and decision makers in support of …