Soil Mapping for Sustainable Land Use Planning
3rd Joint Workshop of the IUSS Working Groups
Digital Soil Mapping & GlobalSoilMap
21st to 24th January 2025,
Bengaluru, India
About the Conference
This international conference is a joint effort of two working groups of the
International Union of Soil Science (IUSS) commission “pedometrics”,
namely the Digital Soil Mapping Working Group (DSMWG) and the
GlobalSoilMap working group (GSM WG).
Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) is a process to generate spatial soil information
integrating soil data with environmental information using (geo) statistical
and machine learning approaches. The key issues of digital soil mapping
include the adoption of new mapping tools and techniques, data
management systems, innovative delivery of soil data, and methods to
analyse, integrate, and visualize soil and environmental datasets. It has
been further extended to Digital Soil Assessment that provide examples and
methods for using the generated maps for various land management
purposes. The DSM working group meets every two years once in different
locations. Previous examples are 2016 – Aarhus (Denmark), 2014 – Nanjing
(China), 2012 – Sydney (Australia), 2010 – Rome (Italy), 2008 – Logan (Utah,
USA), 2006 – Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 2004 – Montpellier (France).
The aims of the GlobalSoilMap working group (GSM WG) are
- To update the specifications of the GlobalSoilMap project for producing fine grids of soil properties
- To conduct research activities about the methodologies to predict these properties
- To provide assistance and training,
- To report progress to the IUSS.
The GlobalSoilMap working group had two dedicated conferences: Orléans (France) 2013 and Moscow (Russia) 2017. The first two joint workshops of the two working groups were organized in Santiago (Chile) and Orléans (France) in 2019 and 2023 respectively.
Key Topics for this Joint Workshop
- Advances in Digital Soil Mapping
- Advances in soil mapping and Land Resource Inventory
- Data collection and processing of soil data, soil and environmental sampling optimization and links to Spectroscopy and spectral library
- Applied statistics for DSM including upscaling and downscaling
- Uncertainty estimation and propagation
- DSM and Digital Soil Assessment
- Soil information for environmental modelling and management
- Soil organic carbon mapping; carbon sequestration, modelling and forecasting
- Soil degradation and links with other issues (water, air, biosphere and human health)
- Soil functions and ecosystem services mapping and soil security mapping
- Soil mapping for sustainable land use planning
- GlobalSoilMap Project
- Advances
- Specifications and Requirements
- National Scale Examples
- Integration of Local data into Global Product
- Harmonisation issues
Important Dates
| Abstract Submission Deadline | 15th September, 2024 |
| Abstract Acceptance Notification | 15th September, 2024 |
| Early Bird Registration Deadline | 1st October, 2024 |
| Conference Programme | |
| Pre-Conference Training | 20th January, 2025 |
| Conference Dates | 21 to 23rd January, 2025 |
| Post-Conference Tour | 24th January, 2025 |
Registration
| Participant Category | Physical Mode | |||
| On/before deadline | After deadline | |||
| Indian Participants | ||||
| National Delegates | ₹ 10000 | ₹ 12000 | ||
| Indian Students | ₹ 4000 | ₹ 5000 | ||
| Accompanying Person* | ₹ 6000 | |||
| International Participants | ||||
| International Delegates | $ 450 | $ 500 | ||
| International Students | $ 250 | $ 300 | ||
| SAARC Countries Delegates | $ 300 | $ 350 | ||
| SAARC Countries Student | $ 150 | $ 200 | ||
| Accompanying Person* | $ 200 | |||
Sponsorship Details
Sponsorship for the Conference is invited from different organizations, professionals, manufacturers and suppliers as per following. The Platinum sponsor will get free advertisement in banners, posters and souvenir (Full page colour). Gold sponsor will get free advertisement in banners, posters and souvenir (Full page B&W). Silver sponsor will get free advertisement in banners, posters and souvenir (Half page B&W). In addition to above, sponsorship for Conference Lunch and Dinner are also invited separately.
Platinum Sponsor
Rs.2,00,000/-
Registration - 5 participants
Diamond Sponsor
Rs.1,50,000/-
Registration - 4 participants
Gold Sponsor
