Data Analysis
The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) is pioneering innovative methodologies, products, tools, and systems to improve the way that soils are evaluated, mapped, and monitored. Some of the innovations include: soil spectral analysis, digital soil mapping and remote sensing technologies, multi-level modeling, mobile data collection and dissemination, mobile soil testing, mobile labs, and ICT4ag.
In this section we provide a first look at some of our ongoing efforts to analyze both existing and new data collections to predict soil and related environmental properties using both new and well-established techniques.
The Miombo woodlands, which are dominant in subtropical eastern and southern Africa (Angola, Burundi, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), are being severely degraded due to intensified human pressure. Encroachment of cultivation … Continue reading →
Scientists working with the Africa Soil Information Service shared new data and techniques for mapping key soil and land characteristics during a week-long data analysis session at the AfSIS East Africa regional labs in Arusha, Tanzania. The hands-on session, which … Continue reading →
Here at the Soil-Plant Spectral Diagnostics Laboratory at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi, Kenya, we have received over 4,000 AfSIS soil samples from sentinel sites and diagnostic trials over the past six months, with a total of over … Continue reading →
