Acknowledgements
Cranfield University – National Soil Resources Institute
Thomas Mayr
Ronald Corstanje
Joanna Zawadzka
Teagasc – Spatial Analysis Unit
Reamonn Fealy
Giuseppe Lo Papa
Teagasc – Johnstown Castle Research Centre
Rachel Creamer
Eddie McDonald
State-of-the-Art
• Historic: National Soil Survey (An Foras Taluntais)
• Full survey: c 44% of country
• Generalised reconnaissance: 56% of country
• Data format: paper, some digitised
• Data storage: local, not public
• Daly & Fealy (2007): Scoping study on SIS
Digital Soil Mapping
Data compilation
Data compilation
General Soil Map
Pot Evapotranspiration Habitat Map
Elevation
Subsoil MapConMap
Stratification
Inference
Deployment
Feature Space Analysis Bayesian Belief Network
Validation
10,363 auger bores
Data Fusion
Accuracy
Number of observations
Source maps
Final Map
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