POLARIS: A 30-meter probabilistic soil series map of the contiguous United States

• Published in: Geoderma Vol. 274; pp. 54 - 67
• Main Authors: Chaney, Nathaniel W., Wood, Eric F., McBratney, Alexander B., Hempel, Jonathan W., Nauman, Travis W., Brungard, Colby W., Odgers, Nathan P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.07.2016
• Subjects: algorithms; artificial intelligence; Availability; Computer information security; Data base management systems; Digital soil mapping; Discontinuity; energy; Environment models; Environmental modeling; environmental models; geographical distribution; High performance computing; hydrology; information systems; Mathematical models; monitoring; politics; potassium; precision agriculture; prediction; soil; Soil (material); soil map; soil surveys; thorium; uncertainty; United States; uranium; USA; United States; Digital soil mapping; Environmental modeling; High performance computing

A new complete map of soil series probabilities has been produced for the contiguous United States at a 30m spatial resolution. This innovative database, named POLARIS, is constructed using available high-resolution geospatial environmental data and a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithm (DSM...