Approximation of the WRB reference group with the reapplication of archive soil databases

Dániel Balla; Tibor József Novák; Marianna Zichar

doi:10.1515/ausae-2016-0003

Abstract

In our study, we tested the existing and freely accessible soil databases covering a smaller geographical region surveyed and classified according to the Hungarian classification in order to approximate the WRB soil reference groups (RSG). We tested the results and applicability of approximation for the RSG with three different methods on 12 soil profiles. First, RSGs were assigned to Hungarian soil taxa based on results of previous correlation studies, secondly, a freely accessible online database of ISRIC was applied furthermore, and an automated reclassification developed and programmed by us was used, which takes the original soil data as input.

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Approximation of the WRB reference group with the reapplication of archive soil databases

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