Soil Resources and Its Mapping Through Geostatistics Using R and QGIS (Hardback, Priyabrata Santra, Mahesh Kumar, N.R. Panwar & C.B. Pandey)

1. Fundamentals of Geostatistics 

Priyabrata Santra and Gerard Heuvelink

2. Digital Soil Mapping

3. Soils of Arid Regions of India, Their Taxonomic Classification and Fertility Characteristics

Mahesh Kumar, N.R. Panwar and Priyabrata Santra

4. Basics of Soil Sampling Through Field Survey and Processing of Georeferenced Data for Geostatistical Analysis

N.R. Panwar and Priyabrata Santra

5. Introduction To R

Priyabrata Santra and Uttam Kumar Mandal

6. Spatial Data Handling and Plotting in R

Priyabrata Santra

7. Data Type, Data Management and Basic Plotting in R

Priyabrata Santra and Uttam Kumar Mandal

8. Semivariogram Modeling in R

Priyabrata Santra and Debashish Chakraborty

9. Kriging in R for Digital Soil Mapping

Priyabrata Santra, Mahesh Kumar, N.R. Panwar and

Uttam Kumar Mandal

10. Indicator Kriging and Natural Resource Management

Partha Pratim Adhikary and Ch. Jyotiprava Dash

11. Introduction of QGIS for Spatial Data Handling

Priyabrata Santra and Mahesh Kumar

12. Processing Covariate Data for Their Use and Interpretation in GIS Environment

Pratap Chandra Moharana

13. Accuracy and Uncertainty Analysis of Spatial Prediction

Priyabrata Santra

14. Spectral Signatures of Soils and Its Controlling Factors with Focus on Spectral Behaviour of Various Soil Types of India

A.K. Bera, Sushil B.Rehpade, Sagar S. Salunkhe and

S. Rama Subramoniam

15. Soil Resources Assessment: Scope of Hyperspectral Imaging

A.K. Bera, Sagar S. Salunkhe, Sushil B. Rehpade and

S. Rama Subramoniam

16. Soil Fertility Management to Combat Desertification in Hot Arid Rajasthan

Mahesh Kumar, Priyabrata Santra and C.B. Pandey 17 Desertification in the Arid Part of Rajasthan: Status Mapping

Through Interpretation of Multi-date Satellite Images

Pratap Chandra Moharana

18 Role of Major Land Resource Units in the Natural Resources Assessment and Planning in Arid Rajasthan

Pratap Chandra Moharana and C.B. Pandey

19. Variability in Soil Hydro-physical Properties in Field Conditions

R.K. Singh, Priyabrata Santra, H.M. Meena and R.K. Goyal

20. Soil and Water Conservation Measures for Enhancing Crop Productivity in Arid Regions

R.K. Goyal and R.K. Singh

21. Soil Resources in Forests of Rajasthan

N. Bala

22. Soil Microbial Diversity in the Drylands

Ramesh C. Kasana and N.R. Panwar

23. Geostatistical Application for Assessing the Soil Water Availability in farm Scale - A Case Study

Priyabrata Santra, U.K. Chopra and Debashis Chakraborty

24. Geostatistical Modeling of Soil Organic Carbon Contents

A Case Study

Priyabrata Santra and R.N. Kumawat

25. Digital Soil Mapping of Organic Carbon in Fruit Tree Based Land Use System in Arid Region Using Geostatistical

Approaches

Akath Singh, Priyabrata Santra, Mahesh Kumar and N.R. Panwar

Appendix

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