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Pedotransfer Functions and Soil Inference Systems

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Abstract

The term pedotransfer function (PTF) was coined by Bouma (1989) as ‘translating data we have into what we need’. Pedotransfer functions are regression functions used to predict soil properties that would be otherwise infeasible to obtain. Typical reasons for this infeasibility include, but are not limited to, the cost, time, difficulty or hazard involved in procuring direct measurements. Each PTF is developed around some insight into a soil’s physical, chemical or biological properties that relates a set of input parameters (predictor properties) to an output parameter (a predicted property).

“You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”.

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish essayist (1667–1745)

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    Uta Stockmann

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Padarian, J., Morris, J., Minasny, B., McBratney, A.B. (2018). Pedotransfer Functions and Soil Inference Systems. In: McBratney, A., Minasny, B., Stockmann, U. (eds) Pedometrics. Progress in Soil Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63439-5_7

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