2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): Transnational Soil Data Harmonization Database Development.

676-5 Transnational Soil Data Harmonization Database Development.



Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 2:15 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 361AB
Endre Dobos, Physical Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Miskolc, Egyetemv�ros, Miskolc, 3515, Hungary, Erika Micheli, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Szent Istvan University, 1. Pater K., Godollo, 2103, Iceland and Jozef Kobza, Vyskumny ustav podoznalectva a ochrany pody, Regionalne pracovisko, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic
This paper summarizes the results of the work of a joint Hungarian-Slovakian team to harmonize the data of the two countries and create a WRB based database covering a transnational area. The project has collected recent and archived soil profile data, soil monitoring sites and large scale soil maps of different origin. These data sources were translated to a set of common variables using direct calculations/transformations or pedotransfer rules where direct tranlation were not possible. The harmonized soil profile dataset were than employed to extrapolate the soil variables using geostatistics and remote sensing/digital terrain modeling tools. The extrapolated soil properti layers were used as input factors into the pedotransfer rules to derive WRB reference groups and characteristic diagnostics.