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In recent times we have bared witness to the advancement of the computer and information technology ages. With such advances, there have come vast amounts of data and tools in all fields of endeavor. This has motivated numerous initiatives around the world to build spatial data infrastructures aiming to facilitate the collection, maintenance, dissemination and use of spatial information. Soil science potentially contributes to the development of such generic spatial data infrastructure through the ongoing creation of regional, continental and worldwide soil databases, and which are now operational for some uses e.g., land resource assessment and risk evaluation (Lagacherie and McBratney 2006).
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Malone, B.P., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B. (2017). Digital Soil Mapping. In: Using R for Digital Soil Mapping. Progress in Soil Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44327-0_1
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