Soil Resources and Its Mapping Through Geostatistics Using R and QGIS

Priyabrata Santra, Mahesh Kumar, Navraten Panwar, C.B. Pandey, ICAR- Central Arid Zone Research Institute Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

• 1. Fundamentals of spatial processes and geostatistics 2. Field soil sampling using GIS and spatial data handling 3. Spatial variability analysis using semi variogram approach 4. Introduction to ‘GSTAT’ package of R and QGIS 5. Kriging technique and other advanced geostatistical approaches 6. Procedures of preparing digital soil maps in R 7. Assessment of uncertainty and error of digital soil maps 8. Case studies on digital soil mapping