Editorial: Digital soil mapping - advancing the knowledge frontiers

Advancing the frontiers of soil science towards a geoscience

The visions, directions, and images of soil science are changing. Historically, soil science has followed a circuitous path in its evolution from a discipline with foundational roots in geology, to an applied agricultural and environmental discipline, and now to a bioand geo-science through the Earth’s Critical Zone investigations. This closes the loop or spiral, but along the way, soil science...

On digital soil mapping

We review various recent approaches to making digital soil maps based on geographic information systems (GIS) data layers, note some commonalities and propose a generic framework for the future. We discuss the various methods that have been, or could be, used for fitting quantitative relationships between soil properties or classes and their ‘environment’. These include generalised linear model...

The Digital Earth as Knowledge Engine Editorial

The Digital Earth [13] aims at developing a digital representation of the planet. It is motivated by the need for integrating and interlinking vast geo-referenced, multi-thematic, and multi-perspective knowledge archives that cut through domain boundaries. Complex scientific questions cannot be answered from within one domain alone but span over multiple scientific disciplines. For instance, st...

Advancing frontiers in industrial health.

Frontiers in geofluids: editorial

This special double issue of Geofluids marks both the tenth anniversary of the launch of the journal and the first volume to appear only online. Geofluids has truly tracked a fundamental change in the nature of scientific publication. For this issue, we sought to bring together a collection of papers spanning a range of topics to which the role of fluids in the Earth is central. Geofluids was f...