US 2022/0067336 A1 · SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR INTEGRATIVE COMPUTATIONAL SOIL MAPPING

Abstract

An integrative computational soil mapping system and process that reduces the required number of soil property measurements without jeopardizing the statistical precision of the resulting digital soil maps. The integrative computational soil mapping system and process saves monetary resources and time by reducing the number of soil property measurements required to produce digital soil maps and by offering soil sample locations which capture the maximum amount of representativeness of the soil characteristics in a determined area. In addition, the inventive system and process are integrative computational soil mapping that utilize algorithms based on state-of-the-art computational statistics and machine learning methods for the production of digital soil property maps and also provides soil sampling locations to collect new soil property measurements. These soil property measurements can be used to update and potentially improve previous versions of digital soil property maps, produced by the computational process.

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A system for integrative computational soil mapping, the system comprising:

a computer having a processor and a memory;
and
a software module stored in the memory, comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
receive electronic data representing soil information for an area of interest;
automatically or semi-automatically generate environmental layers using spatial analysis related to a cluster category;
automatically or semi-automatically perform selection of environmental layers;
automatically or semi-automatically perform data dimensionality reduction for environmental layers in each cluster category;
automatically or semi-automatically perform cluster analysis for each cluster category;
automatically or semi-automatically generate generic soil-landscape classes from spatial interactions of clustering groups across the cluster categories;
assign at least one soil property measurement to each generic soil-landscape class;
generate a digital soil map of the soil property measurement for the area of interest;
and
output the digital soil map to an electronic display for a user.

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A process for integrative computational soil mapping, the process comprising the steps of:

receiving electronic data representing soil information for an area of interest;
automatically or semi-automatically generating environmental layers using spatial analysis related to a cluster category;
automatically or semi-automatically performing cluster analysis for each cluster category;
automatically or semi-automatically generating generic soil-landscape classes from spatial interactions of clustering groups across the cluster categories;
assigning at least one soil property measurement to each generic soil-landscape class;
generating a digital soil map of the soil property measurement for the area of interest;
and
outputting the digital soil map to an electronic display for a user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and process for integrative computational soil mapping

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