Soil inference system for bridging the environmental modelling gap

澳大利亚的环境面临着退化和长期可持续性的问题。有必要使用模拟模型来预测未来的景观过程。关于土壤的适当信息的有限可用性是这一关键模型的根本障碍。该项目将开发一个推理系统，从非常有限的信息预测土壤性质。研究结果将用于描述土壤质量，监测农业管理的效果，主要是提供有关可持续土地利用的决策者所需的信息。

The Australian environment is confronted with issues of degradation and long-term sustainability. There is a need to predict landscape processes into the future using simulation models. The limited availability of appropriate information on the soil is a fundamental barrier to this crucial modelling. This project will develop an inference system to predict soil properties from the very limited information. The results will be used to describe soil quality, to monitor the effects of agricultural management, and principally to provide information needed by policy makers concerned with sustainable land use.