Springer India Private Limited

The Advances in Geographic Information Science series aims to: present current and emerging innovations in GIScience; describe new and robust GIScience methods for use in transdisciplinary problem solving and decision making contexts, illustrate GIScience case studies for use in teaching and training situations, analyze GIScience tools at the forefront of scientific research, and examine the future of GIScience in an expanding knowledge-based economy. The scope of the series is broad and will encompass work from all subject disciplines that develop and use an explicitly spatial perspective for analysis and problem solving.

About this book:

This international, English-language journal publishes original, interdisciplinary articles on all aspects of informatics dealing with the Earth system. Informatics is the science of the application of formal and computational methods to the systematic analysis, management, interchange, and representation of information and knowledge. Earth Science Informatics, as a scientific discipline, focuses on two major aspects:

• The formal representation of the spatial and temporal relationships between entities in the Earth system.
• The design, development, and application of computational tools to acquire, store, analyze, visualize, manage, represent, utilize and communicate information about the spatio-temporal dynamics of the Earth system.

About this book:

Progress in Soil Science series aims to publish books that contain novel approaches in soil science in its broadest sense – books in the series should focus on true progress in a particular area of the soil science discipline. The scope of the series is to publish books that enhance the understanding of the functioning and diversity of soils in all parts of the globe. The series includes multidisciplinary approaches to soil studies and welcomes contributions of all soil science subdisciplines.

Keywords:

• Soil Science
• Soil genesis, geography and classification
• Soil chemistry, soil physics, soil biology, soil mineralogy
• Soil fertility and plant nutrition
• Soil and water conservation
• Pedometrics.