Leigh A. Winowiecki

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed the soil organic carbon (SOC) stock estimates and sequestration potentials from 20 regions in the world (New Zealand, Chile, South Africa, Australia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, India, China Taiwan, South Korea, China Mainland, United States of America, France, Canada, Belgium, England & Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Russia).

TL;DR: Increased demand and advanced techniques could lead to more refined mapping and management of soils, and conventional soil mapping delineates space mostly according to qualitative criteria and renders maps using a series of polygons, which limits resolution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and analyzed a global soil visible-near infrared (vis-NIR) spectral library, which is currently the largest and most diverse database of its kind, and showed that the information encoded in the spectra can describe soil composition and be associated to land cover and its global geographic distribution, which acts as a surrogate for global climate variability.

TL;DR: This paper present a toolbox for philosophical dialogue, consisting of a set of questions for self-examination that cross-disciplinary collaborators can use to identify and address their philosophical disparities and commonalities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed models for digital soil mapping based on remote sensing data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) platform for Africa and presented maps of soil organic carbon (SOC), pH, sand and sum of exchangeable bases, as well as prevalence of root-depth restrictions in the upper 50 cm of the soil profile.