Issue 27, October 2018

In this issue

Editorial - Big Data

The New Zealand economy is centred on the quality of its natural environment, with primary sector production highly dependent on the resilience and health of our many soils.

Our Environment web application gets a major refresh

The New Zealand economy is centred on the quality of its natural environment, with primary sector production highly dependent on the resilience and health of our many soils.

Being certain about uncertainty

The New Zealand economy is centred on the quality of its natural environment, with primary sector production highly dependent on the resilience and health of our many soils.

Figure 1: Two levels of proposed soilscapes for the Waikato Region, North Island. Level 2 soilscapes are spatially nested inside Level 1 soilscapes. Coloured zones represent different soilscapes.

Soilscapes for digital soil mapping in New Zealand

The New Zealand economy is centred on the quality of its natural environment, with primary sector production highly dependent on the resilience and health of our many soils.

Figure 1: Soil sampling in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.

Mapping soil pH in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

The New Zealand economy is centred on the quality of its natural environment, with primary sector production highly dependent on the resilience and health of our many soils.

Figure 1: Change in volumetric soil organic carbon with depth. Points show the 1-cm resolution values predicted directly by vis-NIR spectroscopy. Broken lines show the reference data collected at 10-cm intervals (figure from Roudier et al. (2015)).

Pedometrics: new approaches for quantitative soil analysis

The New Zealand economy is centred on the quality of its natural environment, with primary sector production highly dependent on the resilience and health of our many soils.

Figure 1: The NSDR web viewer, accessible from https://viewer-nsdr.landcareresearch.co.nz/

Raising the treasure of soil legacy data

The New Zealand economy is centred on the quality of its natural environment, with primary sector production highly dependent on the resilience and health of our many soils.

Figure 1: Screenshot of the application; the exact layout will depend on whether the application is run on a large screen or a mobile phone. The sample locations for two realisations of 20 samples using simple random sampling are shown with red or orange markers for the different realisations.

A tool for better soil sampling

The New Zealand economy is centred on the quality of its natural environment, with primary sector production highly dependent on the resilience and health of our many soils.

Figure 3. Manaaki Whenua’s new integrated airborne sensing system, comprising a hyperspectral camera and a LiDAR scanning unit mounted together on a DJI M600 hexacopter.

New RPAS Capabilities at Manaaki Whenua

The New Zealand economy is centred on the quality of its natural environment, with primary sector production highly dependent on the resilience and health of our many soils.