July 3-7, 2018 at the IGAC in Bogotá, Colombia

Three main objectives:

1) Update participants with state-of-the-art knowledge tools on Digital Soil Mapping (DSM), and address new soil properties, new resolutions and dynamic data related to soil formation.

2) Strengthen the current capacities in Digital Soil Mapping in Latin America and follow-up content development for the countries soil information systems.

3) Design a reproducible model of statistical classification of soil-territorial units based on spatially explicit variability of soil properties contained in available databases and other data sources.

Context:

In 2017, thanks to the RSP initiative, three training workshops on digital soil mapping were held in Aguascalientes Mexico, Montevideo Uruguay and Santiago de Chile. The main focus of these workshops were the mapping of soil organic carbon. Given the opportunity offered by the DSM to generate and update soil information, it is proposed to strengthen the knowledge acquired and address: 1) new properties, 2) finer resolutions, and 3) integrative approaches that facilitate the monitoring of soil condition and its productive capacity. As the next step it was proposed to strengthen the knowledge of the participants on DSM for the sustainable management of soils in areas without available/updated soil information. 

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