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AutoMAPticS - Automatic MAPping of Soils

Type: 
National
State: 
Ongoing
Research Groups: 
Geographic Modeling, Cities and Spatial Planning
Lead Researcher: 
Inês de Figueiredo Mascarenhas Lopes (IGOT)
e-Geo Team: 
José António Tenedório
Coordinating Institution: 

Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território da Universidade de Lisboa (IGOT)

Institutional partners: 
Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Planeamento Regional (e-GEO)
Funding: 
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Duration: 
2011 - 2014
Objectives: 
The AutoMAPticS (Automatic MAPping of Soils) project aims to complete the soil-map coverage of continental Portugal at 1:100 000 using a landscape approach. There are two main PR approaches to mapping the spatial distribution of soils using a soil-landscape modelling (SLM) approach: one based on Expert Systems (ES) and another on Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS). Whilst ES is based on the expert knowledge of the variation of soils in the landscape, using only landscape surrogate data, the KBS is based on the existence of both surrogate landscape data and soils data.
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