Chapter 9 - Compilation of Functional Soil Maps for the Support of Spatial Planning and Land Management in Hungary

Pásztor, László and Laborczi, Annamária and Takács, Katalin and Szatmári, Gábor and Fodor, Nándor and Illés, Gábor and Farkas-Iványi, Kinga and Bakacsi, Zsófia and Szabó, József (2017) Chapter 9 - Compilation of Functional Soil Maps for the Support of Spatial Planning and Land Management in Hungary. In: Soil Mapping and Process Modeling for Sustainable Land Use Management. Elsevier, Atlanta, pp. 293-317. ISBN 978-0-12-805200-6

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Abstract

Abstract The tasks of national spatial planning (i.e., delineation of areas with natural constraints or areas with excellent productivity; support of irrigation strategies; flood, drought, and climate change impact risk assessment) increasingly demand advanced or new kinds of spatial soil information, which cannot be fully satisfied by legacy soil maps or formerly elaborated databases. Due to the lack of recent, extended, nationwide mapping, the data of previous surveys should be exploited thoroughly. Digital soil mapping integrates geographic information systems (GIS), geostatistical, and data mining tools and makes possible the elaboration of target-specific soil maps with improved and/or specific thematic, spatial, and temporal accuracy as opposed to former, more general soil maps. For the satisfaction of the recent demands, soil conditions of Hungary have been digitally mapped based on various available recent and legacy soil datasets, and spatially exhaustive, environmental, and auxiliary information. The produced digital soil property maps have been miscellaneously utilized in various regional planning activities.

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