Salote Baleisuva Pacific GIS/RS Conference nd November,2013 SPC/SOPAC

 Why do we need digital soil information  What do we have??  How we can produce Digital soil layers

 Also known as predictive soil mapping  Computer assisted production of soils and soil properties DSM makes extensive use of:  Technological advances  Computational advances

 We can use this information to make predictions based on soil properties  Increases the support and usefulness of soil survey in the future  provides information for modelling the dynamics of soil condition

 Agriculture planning requires soil information at 1:10,000 scale level for selected areas  Coconut resource and possibly forest inventories need soil information for stratification

 Age estimation does not work on poor soils  Fertility is related to soil  Essential to have capacity to recognize the soil type in the field

 We have the data/information on soil but lack the capacity and knowledge about soil

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 We need to establish soil maps at 1:10,000 scale  We need to re-establish digital soil layers with available information  We need to build the capacity to recognize main soil types in coconut resource inventories