The Center for Remote Sensing Seminar
Remote Sensing Supported Digital Soil Modeling
Dr. Sabine Grunwald
Professor
Soil and Water Science
University of Florida
Abstract
Global climate and land use change impose forcings onto soil-ecosystems impacting their
integrity, functioning, and ecosystem services. Soils are at the heart of the critical zone that
extends from the top of the tree canopy to the bottom of aquifers where terrestrial life
flourishes and feeds most of humanity. Digital soil models fuse site-specific soil properties
and environmental co-variates to quantify the spatial distribution of soil properties and
assess soil evolution through time. Remote sensing provides numerous critical
environmental co-variates representing phenology, vegetation characteristics and stress,
and climatic properties that feed into complex, geospatial digital soil models. A suite of
remote sensing supported digital soil models that assess soil carbon and phosphorus in
mixed-use ecosystems in Florida will be presented.
Frazier Rogers Hall
Room 122
Friday, November 18, 2011
3:00 - 4:00 pm