The workshop will be held under the auspices of: The INTERNATIONAL UNION OF SOIL SCIENCES 
The Working Group on Digital Soil Mapping (WG-DSM).

Organizing committee:

• Giuseppe Scarascia – CRA Roma, Italy
• Florence Carré – JRC, Italy
• Rosario Napoli – CRA Roma, Italy
• Rosa Francaviglia – CRA Roma, Italy
• Edoardo A.C. Costantini – CRA Firenze, Italy
• Alessandro Marchetti – CRA Roma, Italy
• Chiara Piccini – CRA Roma, Italy
• Federica Riccioni – CRA Roma, Italy
• Simone Priori – CRA Firenze, Italy
• Antonio Leone – CNR Roma, Italy

Scientific committee:

• Janis BOETTINGER – Utah State University, USA
• Alex McBRATNEY – University of Sydney, Australia
• Neil McKENZIE – CSIRO, Australia
• Philippe LAGACHERIE – INRA, France
• Thorsten BEHRENS – University of Tuebingen, Germany
• Florence CARRE – JRC, Italy
• Jon HEMPEL – USDA NRCS, USA
• Alfred HARTEMINK – ISRIC-World Soil Information, Netherlands
• A-Xing ZHU – University of Wisconsin, USA
• Maria de Lourdes MENDONÇA-SANTOS – EMBRAPA Solos, Brazil
• Cristiano BALLABIO – University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy
• Budiman MINASNY – University of Sydney (Australia)
• Raphael VISCARRA-ROSSEL – CSIRO, Australia
• Bas VAN WESEMAEL – Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Francesca GARFAGNOLI – University of Firenze, Italy
• Sabine GRUNWALD – University of Florida, USA

Draft Program:

• SUNDAY 23 – 15.00 – 18.00 Pre-Registration
• MONDAY 24 – 1st day, Workshop sessions
• TUESDAY 25 – 2nd day, Workshop sessions – Social Dinner
• WEDNESDAY 26 – 3rd day, Workshop session – Departure to Siena
• THURSDAY 27 – Field Trip to Siena
  

Workshop Topics (first draft):

• DSM techniques for high spatial resolution soil properties mapping (sensors)
• Partially dynamic environmental scenarios in DSM/DSA
• DSM in 3-D: 3D space and 1D time and 2D space
• Continental/Global DSM techniques and standards
• Innovative Soil Inference Systems
• Digital Soil Assessment: techniques and example implementations
• Digital Soil Mapping and Digital Soil Assessment operational tools
• Modelling uncertainties in Digital Soil Assessment

Scientific Field Trip:

• Tuscany: Siena 27-28 May 2010
• The field trip will be organized in three days, with the following draft program:

26 May, (17.00)

• start from Rome with a Bus, direction Brolio Site (Siena Chianti hills).
• Lunch in Brolio area
• Dinner and Night nearby Brolio

27 May,

• morning: visit to the experimental fields in Brolio in which the CRA-ABP is carrying out some soil investigations with both proximal sensors and remote sensing image on soil-crop (vineyards) relations.
• Visit of Vine Factory “Castello di Brolio”.
• afternoon: site stop in Montagnola Senese Area, and discussion about a) digital soil mapping of both soils and quaternary paleosoils; b) 3D reconstruction of pedostratigraphic levels supporting the quaternary geological map of the area
• Dinner and Night in Siena

28 May, (8.30)

• departure to Rome
• arrival at lunchtime.
  

Conference Registration fee:

• 300 € (Until the 1 of March 2010)
• 350 € (After the 1 of March 2010)