Research Article

Updating Categorical Soil Maps Using Limited Survey Data by Bayesian Markov Chain Cosimulation

Table 1

Cross-field transition probability matrix from sample data (5 soil series) to colocated data in the legacy soil map (7 soil series).

DataSoil seriesLegacy soil map
S1S2S3S4S5S6S7

Sample dataSU2.00001.0000.0000.0000.0000.0000.0000
SU3.0000.0000.9011.0000.0989.0000.0000
SU4.0000.0000.00001.0000.0000.0000.0000
SU6.0000.0000.0000.0000.0000.8143.1857
SU7.2169.0000.0000.0000.0000.0271.7560

S1 is a soil series in the legacy soil map. SU2 is a soil series in the updated soil map.