Training pedologist for soil mapping: Contextualizing methods and its accuracy using the project pedagogy approach
Elias Mendes Costa 
, Marcos Bacis Ceddia , Felipe Nascimento dos Santos , Laiz de Oliveira Silva , Igor Prata Terra de Rezende , Douglath Alves Correa Fernandes
10/Mar/2021
ABSTRACT There is a growing demand for more detailed knowledge about soils, their functions, and connections with human activities and environmental services. In Brazil, where soil survey and mapping have been scarce since the 1990s, there is a remarkable sense of urgency. Recently, a national soil program was created (PronaSolos) to attend to the massive demand for soil information. PronaSolos is an effort to return to the systematic soil mapping of the national territory, which requires many pedologists who master […]
How is the learning process of digital soil mapping in a diverse group of land use planners?
Ricardo Simão Diniz Dalmolin, Jean Michel Moura-Bueno, Alessandro Samuel-Rosa , Carlos Alberto Flores
03/Feb/2020
ABSTRACT The use of new technologies, the development of new software, and the advances in the machines ability to process data have brought a new perspective to soil science and especially to pedology, with the advent of digital soil mapping (DSM). To meet the demand for soil surveys in Brazil, it will be necessary to popularize the techniques used in DSM. To identify and map the soil to generate maps of land use capability, we proposed a theoretical and practical […]
