Scope

The Pedometrics section publishes high-quality articles in quantitative soil science, digital soil science, and technology-oriented soil science. Pedometrics is the development and application of statistical and mathematical methods applicable to data analysis problems in soil science.

The areas covered in the Pedometrics section include, but are not limited to:

·       Digital soil, digital soil-ecosystems

·       Emergent frontiers in digital soil mapping

·       New algorithms to model soils

·       Prediction and modeling of soil properties, soil functions, soil indices, soil ecosystem services

·       Novel quantitative approaches in soil health, soil security or soil quality

·       Artificial intelligence (machine learning and deep learning) in soil science

·       Global soil assessments

·       Soil geoplatforms

·       Soil science in the cloud

·       Soil spectroscopy / proximal soil sensing

·       Ensembles of soil data and models

·       Data mining of geospatial BIGDATA sets to model soil dynamics

·       Remote-sensing or geotechnology supported soil assessments

·       Soil sensor networks to monitor soil change

·       Modeling and simulation of soil processes

·       Pedogenic and Earth system modeling

·        Uncertainty assessment of soil predictions

·       “Soil in the machine, soil and the machine, soil outside the machine”: Digital soil philosophy and ethics of pedometrics (i.e., new paradigms, worldviews, theories, multi-perspectival voices)

Articles that emphasize novel aspects of digital soil science, transdisciplinary interfaces (e.g., pedometrics-econometrics, pedometrics-digital agriculture, or pedometrics-computer science) or highlight discovery of new insights how soils function and develop are especially invited.   

Reports or applied soil science studies that are focused on management are outside the scope of this section. Fundamental empirical pedological studies and research focused on empirical biogeochemical soil processes should be submitted to specialized soil science journals.

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