[HTML][HTML] Applications and challenges of digital soil mapping in Africa

AM Nenkam, AMJC Wadoux, B Minasny, FBT Silatsa… - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
The mapping of soils in Africa is at least a century old. We currently have access to various
maps depicting mapping units locally and for the continent. In the past two decades, there …

Machine learning digital soil mapping to inform gully erosion mitigation measures in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

C Du Plessis, G Van Zijl, J Van Tol, A Manyevere - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil erosion is probably the most common form of land degradation, leading to on and off
site detrimental effects, such as an increase in river sediment load which have been shown …

Combining historical remote sensing, digital soil mapping and hydrological modelling to produce solutions for infrastructure damage in Cosmo City, South Africa

G Van Zijl, J Van Tol, D Bouwer, S Lorentz, P Le Roux - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Urbanization and hydrology have an interactive relationship, as urbanization changing the
hydrology of a system and the hydrology commonly causing structural damage to the …

Farm-scale digital soil mapping of soil classes in South Africa

T Flynn, A Rozanov, F Ellis, W de Clercq… - South African Journal of …, 2022 - journals.co.za
This study involved the evaluation of farm-scale digital soil classification in the Sandspruit
catchment of the Western Cape Province, South Africa. The study aimed to evaluate a digital …

Importance of detailed soil information for hydrological modelling in an urbanized environment

J Van Tol, G Van Zijl, S Julich - Hydrology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Soil information is critical in watershed-scale hydrological modelling; however, it is still
debated which level of complexity the soil data should contain. In the present study, we have …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of soil information on process-based hydrological modelling in the Upper Goukou Catchment, South Africa

E Smit, J Van Tol - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although soils form an integral part of landscape hydrological processes, the importance of
soil information in hydrological modelling is often neglected. This study investigated the …

Digital soil mapping for hydropedological purposes of the Cathedral Peak Research Catchments, South Africa

R Harrison, J van Tol - Remote Sensing of African Mountains: Geospatial …, 2022 - Springer
Conventional soil mapping in montane environments is often a difficult and laborious task,
given access difficulties, the topography of the environment, and the time required to …

Topographic attributes to map land use capability of soils derived from basalt

JC de Oliveira Junior, NM Mucha… - Environmental Earth …, 2022 - Springer
Subtropical soils derived from basalt cover an area of 1.5× 106 km2 intensively used for
agriculture in South America. There is little information about such soils on a scale …

Modelación hidrológica con el modelo SWAT empleando diferentes distribuciones espaciales del tipo suelo en la cuenca del Río Mixteco

G Colín-García, E Palacios-Vélez… - Terra …, 2023 - scielo.org.mx
La cuenca del río Mixteco se ubica en el estado de Oaxaca, México y comprende una
superficie total de 6 559.20 km2; esta presenta fuerte degradación de sus recursos …

Digital soil maps can perform as well as large-scale conventional soil maps for the prediction of catchment baseflows

Z Gagkas, A Lilly, NJ Baggaley - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapid advance of digital soil mapping (DSM) has resulted in the generation of fine
resolution soils spatial datasets with associated uncertainty that can be as accurate but more …