“…In recent years, GIS methods have been applied in various ways and degrees in digital soil mapping projects (Klingebiel et al, 1988;Skidmore et al, 1996;Rahman et al, 1997;Bell et al, 1999;McKenzie et al, 2000;Corner et al, 2002;Bathgate and Duram, 2003;McBratney et al, 2003;Lagacherie et al, 2007). Typically, data representing the soil-forming factors (i.e.…”