SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Chair: Dominique Arrouays - Chair of the GlobalSoilMap Working Group of the International Union of Soil Sciences - Past member of the IPCC (Nobel Peace Prize, 2007). Three best papers in Pedometrics (2008, 2010, 2019). Gold medal of the French Academy of Agriculture (2014). Past member of the ITPS of the UN-FAO Global Soil Partnership (2013-2015). Chair of the GLADSOILMAP Consortium. Cited by Food-Tank among the 13 most influential soil scientists from around the globe working to better understand soils and promote practices for maintaining healthy, fertile lands (2017). Top 2% of global researchers (Stanford list). Member of the Editorial boards of: Geoderma, Geoderma Regional, Remote Sensing, Frontiers in Soil Science, Soil Security. Editor-in-Chief of the French Journal of Soil Science. More than 200 referred journal articles. - INRAE, InfoSol, France. 

Co-chair: Laura Poggio - Chair of the Digital Soil Mapping Working Group of the International Union of Soil Sciences since 2016 - Best paper in Pedometrics (2016) - Member of the editorial boards of: Geoderma, Geoderma Regional. Leader of the world program “SoilGrids” - Laura is working on the development of modelling approaches for new mapped soil products (properties and functions) to support sustainable land management in a changing climate. She is chair of the EGU SSS10: Metric, Informatics, Statistics and Models in Soils. Member of the GLADSOILMAP Consortium.  ISRIC - World Soil Information, The Netherlands. 

Members in last name alphabetical order:

Kabindra Adhikari is a soil scientist, and has published more than 50 journal articles related to digital soil mapping (DSM) with an h-index of 22, developed the national DSM products in Denmark for the GlobalSoilMap.net project, actively involved in developing DSM in Nepal. Geoderma best Review Paper awardee 2016, Co-editor of book “Remote Sensing of Soils: Mapping, Monitoring and Measurement” by Elsevier Publications. Associate Editor in Pedometrics, Section of Frontiers in Soil Science, PeerJ, and Agronomy journals, Guest Editor of Special Issue "Recent Advances in Soil Monitoring and Mapping in Agriculture Systems" of Agronomy, Guest Editor of Special Issue "Digital Soil Mapping for Agri-Environmental Management and Sustainability" of Land - USDA - Agricultural Research Service, USA.

Songchao Chen - Best Paper in Pedometrics 2019. Dan Yaalon Medal of the best young scientist of the International Union of Soil Sciences 2022. He has published more than 70 journal articles with an h index of 35. Member of the Editorial boards of Geoderma, Associated Editor in Pedometrics Section of Frontiers in Soil Science, Guest Editor of Remote Sensing. -  ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, China.

Subramanian Dharumarajan - Senior Scientist is pioneer of digital soil mapping in India. Actively involved in developing digital soil mapping products for India at different levels using novel approaches. He has handled various projects financed by French Natural Research Agency, World Bank, MOEF&CC, Dept. of Space (Govt. of India) and State Planning Commission in various capacities. More than 80 research papers in peer reviewed journals and received various national and international awards such as Indian Council of Agricultural Research (New Delhi)-outstanding scientist award, Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationists (Dehradun)-young scientist award, Indian Society of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning ( Nagpur)-Young scientist award and Endeavour Fellow (Australia). Leader- IndianSoilGrids Working Group, Lead editor of book “Remote Sensing of Soils: Mapping, Monitoring and Measurement” by Elsevier Publications - National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, Bangalore, India.

Gerard Heuvelink - Special professor in Pedometrics and Digital Soil Mapping at Wageningen University (NL), visiting professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China). Past chair of the Pedometrics Commission of the IUSS (2003-2006), former president of the Netherlands Soil Science Society (2004-2007). Winner of the best pedometrics paper award in 2006 and 2017. Recipient of the Richard Webster medal of the Pedometrics Commission in 2014 and of the Peter Burrough medal of the International Spatial Accuracy Research Association in 2020. Chair of the Organizing Committee of the 25-th anniversary Pedometrics Conference in Wageningen in 2017. Recognized by the Web of Science Group as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2019 and 2020. Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Soil Science, Editorial Board member of Geoderma, Spatial Statistics, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, and International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.

Zamir Libohova - Secretary of the Digital Soil Mapping Working Group of the International Union of Soil Sciences. Chair of the Digital Detection, Interpretation, and Mapping of Soil and Landscape Properties Working Group (S835) and Soil Geomorphology Committee (S835) of the Pedology Division of the ASA-CSSA-Soil Sci Soc. America. Member of the editorial boards of: Agronomy, Frontiers in Soil Science, Geoderma Regional, Remote Sensing. Member of the GLADSOILMAP Consortium - United States Department of Agriculture, ARS, USA.

Budiman Minasny - Past Chair of the Pedometrics Commission of the International Union of Soil Sciences. Two best papers in Pedometrics (2001 & 2014). Recipient of Richard Webster Medal 2022. Highly cited researcher from 2019 to 2021 (Clarivate Web of Science). Top 2% of global researchers (Stanford list). Australian field leader in Soil Sciences 2020 by The Australian newspaper. Published more than 240 refereed journal articles with an h index of 81. His work has a global impact on the causes and controls of soil carbon and the potential of soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change. Editor in Chief of Geoderma. Member of the editorial board of: Geoderma Regional. Member of the GLADSOILMAP Consortium - The University of Sydney, Australia.

Vera Leatitia (Titia) Mulder - Past Chair of the Pedometrics Commission of the International Union of Soil Sciences. Current general board member of the Dutch Soil Science Society. Best paper in Pedometrics (2013). Geoderma best paper (2013). Pedometrics Margaret Oliver Medal (2019). Associate editor European Journal of Soil Science and Frontiers in Soil Science, Editorial board member of Geoderma Regional. Member of the GLADSOILMAP Consortium. Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Anne Richer-de-Forges - Co-editor of the book “GlobalSoilMap. Basis of the Global Spatial Soil Information System” (2013) Taylor&Francis. Lead editor of the book “Global Soil Security. Towards more science-society interfaces” (2019) Taylor&Francis. - Co-editor-in chief of the French Journal of Soil Science. Scientific Officer of the GLADSOILMAP Consortium - INRAE France.

Pierre Roudier - Vice-Chair of the Global Soil Map Working Group of the International Union of Soil Sciences, Council Member of the New Zealand Soil Science Society. Principal Investigator at the Centre of Research Excellence Te Pūnaha Matatini since 2013. Best paper in Pedometrics (2016). Member of the editorial boards of: Geoderma, Geoderma Regional, Frontiers in Soil Science. Advisory Board Member, Commission 1.5: Pedometrics, IUSS. Member of the GLADSOILMAP Consortium - Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, New Zealand. 

Alexandre Wadoux - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2023-2025). Chair of the Pedometrics Commission of the International Union of Soil Sciences. Pedometrics. Pedometrics Margaret Oliver Medal (2021). Associate Editor in the European Journal of Soil Science. Member of the editorial boards of Geoderma and Soil Security. The University of Sydney, Australia.

LIST OF POSTERS

Sessions 1 & 2: Country report and case studies

5 - An overview of the Consortium GLADSOILMAP supported by the LE STUDIUM Loire Valley Institute for advanced research studies (France). Joining efforts between sub-national, national, continental and global scale digital soil mapping of soils, soil properties and soil functions

Dominique Arrouays, Anne C. Richer de Forges, Budiman Minasny, Laura Poggio, Zamir Libohova, Vera-Leatitia (Titia) Mulder, Pierre Roudier, Manuel P. Martin, Philippe Lagacherie, Guillaume Martelet, Pierre Nehlig, Hocine Bourennane

15 - A new semi-automatic data processing pipeline: from text recognition of soil legacy data to feeding the French national soil database DONESOL

Amine Chemchem, Rida Moumni, El-Bachir Rehhali, Paulo Pimenta, Lalla Aicha Sow, Yasmine Aït Ali Yahia, Sanae Mourabit, Maider Arregui, Tom Brunelle, Loïc Maisonnasse, Anne Richer-de-Forges, Antoine Olgiati, Jean-Philippe Chenu, Antoine Schellenberger, Sarah Morisset, Anne Fromage-Mariette, Philippe Lagacherie

23 - Comparing Global and European Soil Databases for Clay, Silt and Sand Contents

Mathilde Puche, Dennis Fox​, Mostafa Banitalebi Dehkordi

24 - Geostatistics contribution in forensic science for the origin identification of soil traces

Amélie Devresse, Chantal de Fouquet, Xavier Freulon

31 - Comparison of soil information from different sources. Coherence, complementarities, interest of their joint use for digital soil mapping of topsoil texture. A pilot study on forest soils in the department of Loiret (France).

Alexandre Eymard, Anne C. Richer-de-Forges, Loïc Commagnac, Guillaume Martelet, Hélène Tissoux, Anne Bialkowski, Dominique Arrouays

34 - Leveraging legacy soil data for national DSM in a data-rich country: opportunities and obstacles in Austria

Stefan J. Forstner, David Kessler, Tobias Huber, Klaus Klebinder, Josef Gadermaier, Klaus Katzensteiner, Sigrid Schwarz, Andreas Baumgarten, Hans-Peter Haslmayer, Günther Aust, Ernst Leitgeb, Michael Englisch

58 - Predictive mapping of wetlands for mainland France using a machine learning procedure

Blandine Lemercier, Sébastien Rapinel, Léa Panhelleux, Laurence Hubert-Moy, Guillaume Gayet, Rachel Vanacker, Bertrand Laroche, François Chambaud, Joanie Catrin, Anis Guelmami

71 - Using homosoils for quantitative extrapolation of soil mapping models

Andree Nenkam Mentho, A. Wadoux, B. Misnany, A. McBratney, Pierre C.S. Traore, Gatien N. Falconier, A.M. Whitbread

98 - Regional scale mapping of topsoil carbon sequestration potential in Taiwan

Chien-Hui Syu, Bo-Jiun Yang, Hsin-Ju Yang, Tsang-Sen Liu, Yi-Ting Zhang, Horng-Yuh Guo

117 - National scale mapping of surface soil thickness in mountainous, upland, and hilly areas of Japan

Naoyuki Yamashita, Yasuhiro Ohnuki

118 - GloSIS: Global and National Soil Information Systems

Yusuf Yigini, Marcos Esteban Angelini, Isabel Luotto, Christian Omuto, Moritz Mainka, Ronald Vargas

121 - Predictive mapping of the Guerrara region’s soil landscapes (Northern Sahara, Algeria)

Abdelhakim Zidi, Mohammed Achab, Tewfik Mostephaoui, Brahim Djili, Baelhadj Hamdi-Aïssa

130 - Digital Soil Map and Soil Information System in Nepal

Shree Prasad Vista

Session 3: Covariates & Remote Sensing 

9 - Lithological map of metropolitan France

Anne Bialkowski, Isabelle Bernachot, Hugues Bauer, Frédéric Chêne, Hélène Tissoux​

17 - Soil organic carbon prediction and mapping using Sentinel-2 multi-temporal imagery data over Greek croplands

João A. Coblinski, Jessica R. Rojas, Nikolaos Tsakiridis, Nikolaos Tziolas, George Zalidis

26 - Spectral monitoring of cattle slurry and digestate spreading on wheat crop at the field scale (Nouzilly, France)

Maxence Dodin, Florent Levavasseur, Antoine Savoie, Lucie Martin, Christophe Staub, Jean Foulon, Emmanuelle Vaudour

27 - Gamma-ray spectrometry to determine soil properties for soil mapping in precision agriculture

Jasper Dreyer, George van Zijl, Laurent Ameglio

32 - A decision-level fusion-based scenario for production of more accurate land crop maps

Solmaz Fathololoumi, Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei, Asim Biswas​

35 - Combining time-series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 for soil organic carbon estimation and mapping. Application to agricultural soils of a catchment area in Brittany, France

Youssef Fouad, Didier Michot, Amaury Bardelle, Pascal Pichelin, Nicolas Baghdadi, Hayfa Zayani, Emmanuelle Vaudour

36 - Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon based on Sentinel-2 NDVI data in Sardinia, Italy

Antonio Frongia, Manca Daniele, Biggio Maria Luisa, Cocco Marco, Melis Massimo, Marrone Vittorio Alessandro, Puddu Rita, Fanni Stefania

82 - Integration of remote sensing soil organic carbon mapping using vegetation composites.

Laura Poggio, Giulio Genova, Luis de Sousa, Pablo d’ Angelo, Paul Karlshoefer, Peter Schwind, Uta Heiden

84 - The Theia "Digital Soil Mapping" Scientific Expertise Centre of France

 Anne C. Richer-de-Forges, Philippe Lagacherie, Dominique Arrouays, Anne Bialkowski, Hocine Bourennane, Xavier Briottet, Vincent Bustillo, Youssef Fouad, Cécile Gomez, Stéphane Jacquemoud, Blandine Lemercier, Philippe Maisongrande, Guillaume Martelet, Manuel P. Martin, Didier Michot, Pascal Pichelin, Nicolas P.A. Saby, Hélène Tissoux, Emmanuelle Vaudour, Alexandre M.J.-C. Wadoux, Christian Walter, Anne Puissant

88 - Data Repository of the Brazilian Soil: curating multi source data for spatio-temporal mapping of soil properties

 Alessandro Samuel-Rosa, Marcos Alexandre dos Anjos, Graziele Feltrin Dias Wendlin, Vitor Peruzzi de Almeida, Taciara Zborowski Horst

104 - Potential of using Sentinel-2 temporal mosaics over a 5-year period to map soil organic carbon (SOC) in Beauce, Northern France.

Diego Urbina-Salazar, Emmanuelle Vaudour, Anne C. Richer-de-Forges, Songchao Chen, Anne Bialkowski, Guillaume Martelet, Nicolas Baghdadi, Johanna Wetterlind, Dominique Arrouays

107 - Soil diversity as a co-variate in digital soil mapping (DSM)

Radim Vašát, Luboš, Borůvka, Oldřich Vacek, Vít Šrámek​

109 - Relevance of Sentinel-2 satellite images for monitoring manure and digestate spreadings on annual crops and grasslands over a farm (Nouzilly, France)

Emmanuelle Vaudour, Maxence Dodin, Antoine Savoie, Lucie Martin, Christophe Staub, Jean Foulon, Fayçal Bouraoui, Ioannis Trichakis, Florent Levavasseur

127 - Using CNN-LSTM deep learning model for enhancing predictive mapping of soil carbon with long time phenological information

Lei Zhang, Yanyan Cai, Lin Yang, Chenghu Zhou

128 - Regional Mapping of Peatland Boundaries using Airborne Radiometric Data and Supervised Machine Learning

Dave O’Leary, Colin Brown, Eve Daly

Session 4: Sampling/Validation / uncertainty

83 - Can we evaluate the accuracy of digital soil maps for local prediction of particle size distribution with hand-feel soil textures observations?

Anne C. Richer-de-forges, Dominique Arrouays, Laura Poggio, Songchao Chen, Marine Lacoste, Budiman Minasny, Zamir Libohova, Pierre Roudier, Vera L. Mulder, Hervé Nédélec, Guillaume Martelet, Blandine Lemercier, Philippe Lagacherie, Hocine Bourennane

102 - Does increasing number of field observations necessarily improve the mapping of parent material?

Tünde Takáts, János Mészáros, Zsófia Adrienn Kovács, Gáspár Albert, László Pásztor

76 - Variable resolution pixels or how to get rid of uncertainty maps

José Padarian, Alex McBratney

114 - Evaluating the quality of soil legacy data used as input of Digital Soil Mapping models

Malithi Weerasekara, Philippe Lagacherie 

28 - Accounting for operational constraints when sampling for Digital Soil Mapping. A Middle-East dryland case study.

Maxime Dumont, Paul Tresson, Hassan Boukcim, Marc Ducousso, Stéphane Boivin, Olivier Taugourdeau, Guilhem Brunel

Session 5: Pedological knowledge and DSM

110 -  Shapley values reveal the drivers of soil organic carbon stocks variation

Alexandre M.J-C. Wadoux, Nicolas P.A. Saby, Manuel P. Martin

123 - Mapping soil organic carbon stock and soil pH in an alpine pasture (Andossi Plateau, Northern Italy)

Sara Agaba, Chiara Ferré, Gaia Mascetti, Roberto Fucella, davide Abuelkhair, Roberto Comolli

Session 6: Digital soil assesment of soil functions and services 

4 - Agricultural soil ecosystem services bundles definition through spatial analysis. A regional approach in Navarre (Spain).

Rodrigo Antón, Iñigo Virto, João Augusto Coblinski, Isabelle Cousin

16 - Predicting current and future surface soil pH in China under climate change

Qianqian Chen, Songchao Chen, Yongsheng Hong, Zhou Shi​

33 - Improving the annual crops mapping accuracy using feature level-based fusion of Surface biophysical properties

Solmaz Fathololoumi, Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei, Asim Biswas

42 - An approach to map nitrous oxide emission risk by soils at regional scale based on soil properties.

Agnès Grossel, Catherine Pasquier, Hocine Bourenanne, Isabelle Cousin, Ghislain Girot, Catherine Hénault

50 - Modelling the impact of agricultural management on soil carbon stocks and their mapping at the regional scale under tropical climate

Shih-Hao Jien, Jyu-Yuan Chen, Yung-Hsin Chiang​

51 - Assessment of digital soil mapping using causal machine learning

Nafiseh Kakhani, Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Ndiye M. Kebonye, Thomas Scholten

43 - Tillage erosion as a covariate for the organic carbon mapping in cropland over Denmark.

Sebastian Gutierrez, Anders B. Møller, Amélie Beucher, Goswin Heckrath, Mette B. Greve, Lis W.de Jonge, Mogens H. Greve

74 - Using the 1:1 000 000 French Soil Geographical Database to assess relationships between soil ecosystem services on arable areas in France

Gregory Obiang Ndong, Olivier Therond, Isabelle Cousin

80 - Global soil functions modelling

Laura Poggio, Niels H. Batjes, Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, Bas Kempen, Andre Kooiman, David G. Rossiter, Rik van den Bosch

89 - Regolith Mapping of a catchment area to recommend the agricultural drains removal to combat the droughts of the SEICHE river : Analyse of the critical zone in hardrock aquifer.

Jean-Michel Schroëtter, Flora Lucassou, Guillaume Deray

101 - Application of machine learning techniques for soil erosion mapping on vineyards

Tünde Takáts, János Mészáros, Gáspár Albert, László Pásztor

86 - Mapping of soil-based ecosystem services, soil threats and their evolution in European arable lands – A systematic review

Jessica R. Rojas, João A. Coblinski, Chiara Piccini, Sophie Cornu, Nicolas Saby, Luboš Borůvka

119 - Soil mapping data for assessing soil security based on soil quality, erosion and production potential

Jung-Hwan Yoon, Hyucksoo Kim, Kyung Jae Lim, Sungchul Kim, Pasquale Borrelli, Panos Panagos, Jae E. Yang

LOCATIONS

Auditorium du Musée des Beaux Arts d'Orléans, 1 rue Fernand Rabier 45000 Orléans - FR

The event will take place in the city centre at the Auditorium of the Musée des Beaux Arts d'Orléans located 1 rue Fernand Rabier and very near the cathedral.The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, founded in 1797, is one of the oldest French provincial museums.

Hôtel Dupanloup : 1, rue Dupanloup - 45000 ORLEANS - FR

The conference venue is unique. Located right next to the Orléans’ cathedral, the episcopal palace of Orléans, built between 1635 and 1641, locally known as the Hôtel Dupanloup, is a classical French building which served until 1905 of residence to the bishops of Orléans.  Since 2014, the renewed palace hosts the International University Center for Research and Le Studium Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies.

Participants will be welcomed in this exceptional surrounding, blending Middle Age and Renaissance cultures with modern design and will have the opportunity to discover French cuisine and wines.

REGISTRATION FEES

The registration fee is 300€ including two lunches, a Wine & Cheese cocktail and the coffee breaks.

IUSS members are members of IUSS or of a National Soil Science Society subscribing to the IUSS and having paid his contribution to IUSS. They have a special discount.

Early bird means that registration payment should be completed before November 10th 2022.

Students means people under preparation of a MSc or a PhD. A certificate is required. People being in a postdoc position or having already defended their PhD are not considered as students.

The Gala dinner is optional but should be paid at the same time as the registration fees.

* Low Income Countries who are eligible for the special rate are listed below: 

Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bisseau, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Philippines,  Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome And Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Awards winners :

• Best student oral presentation

Mapping soil organic carbon stocks in mineral soils in Poland
Sylwia Pindral, Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - Poland

• Best oral presentation

MapBiomas Soils: Revealing the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil carbon stocks and their relationships with changes in climate and land cover and use in Brazil
Taciara Zborowski Horst, Federal University of Technology - Parana - Brazil

• Best student poster presentation

Accounting for operational constraints when sampling for Digital Soil Mapping. A Middle-East dryland case study
Maxime Dumont - Valorhiz_FR

• Best poster presentation

Comparison of soil information from different sources. Coherence, complementarities, interest of their joint use for digital soil mapping of topsoil texture. A pilot study on forest soils in the department of Loiret (France)
Alexandre Eymard, INRAE Info&Sols, Orléans - France

• Best innovative idea

Informative probabilistic maps of soil nutrient levels
Ben Marchant, British Geological Survey  - UK