Katalin Takács

HUN-REN ATK Institute for Soil Sciences

In 2023, the European Commission released a legislative proposal for a Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience which aims to define a legal framework to achieve healthy soils across the European Union (EU) by 2050. A key component of the initial Directive is the mandate for Member States to establish basic geographic soil governance units, refe...

Soil organic carbon (SOC), known as the most important soil attribute, affects various soil functions and services, essential for nutritious food and clean drinking water. Since recognizing its key role in many environmental challenges, there has been an increasing demand for spatial information on SOC. Our objective is to present the results of a...

The role of soil organic carbon (SOC) is crucial not only for numerous soil functions and processes but also for addressing various environmental crises and challenges we face. Consequently, the demand for information on the spatiotemporal variability of SOC is increasing, posing new methodological challenges, such as the need for information on SO...

Spatially explicit, quantitative information on soil hydraulic properties is required in various modelling schemes. At European scale, EU-SoilHydroGrids proved its applicability in a number of studies, in ecological predictions, geological and hydrological hazard assessment, agri-environmental models, among others. Inspired by its continental antec...

Salt meadows, protected within National Parks, cannot be directly surveyed, yet understanding their soil condition is crucial. Our study indirectly estimates soil parameters (Total Salt Content (TSC), Na, and pH) related to salinization/sodification/alkalinization using spectral indices and UAV survey-derived elevation model, focusing on continenta...

Documentary climate data describe evidence of past climate arising from predominantly written historical documents such as diaries, chronicles, newspapers, or logbooks. Over the past decades, historians and climatologists have generated numerous document-based time series of local and regional climates. However, a global dataset of documentary clim...

A methodology is presented for the quantitative assessment of soil biomass productivity at 100 m spatial resolution on a national scale. The traditional land evaluation approach-where crop yield is the dependent variable-was followed using measured yield and net primary productivity data derived from satellite images, together with digital soil and...

A közösségi tudomány – citizen science – már évtizedek óta működő kutatási forma, ahol egy-egy kutatás a lakosság segítségével valósul meg. Az „Alsóban az élet” kampány az érdeklődők bevonásával 2021 tavaszán indult hazánkban. A kutatásban résztvevők kézhez kaptak egy pamut alsóneműt, amelyet kb. 20 cm-es mélységben kellett elásniuk, ezzel „táplálé...

The GlobalSoilMap initiative significantly inspired the DOSoReMI.hu (Digital, Optimized, Soil Related Maps and Information in Hungary) project, which was started intentionally for the renewal of the national spatial soil data infrastructure in Hungary. The main objectives of our work has been to broaden the possibilities, how demands on spatial soi...

Spatial 3-D information on soil hydraulic properties for areas larger than plot scale is usually derived using indirect methods such as pedotransfer functions (PTFs) due to the lack of measured information on them. PTFs describe the relationship between the desired soil hydraulic parameter and easily available soil properties based on a soil hydrau...

Spatial 3D information on soil hydraulic properties for areas larger than plot scale are usually derived with indirect methods due to lacking measured information on those. Soil hydraulic properties are calculated with applying pedotransfer functions (PTFs) – which describe the relationship between the desired soil hydraulic parameter and easily av...

Inland excess water (IEW) is a form of surplus surface water, often regarded as a specific flood type. However, it occurs most frequently in local depressions of large flat areas, irrespective of river floods and the surface water networks. IEW is considered to be a typical Carpathian Basin problem, as it can cause major land degradation problems i...

The history of the research of Debrecen scholars on salt-affected soils of Hortobágy and the region is very rich and diverse. Focusing on mapping, the following stages can be distinguished, indicating the completeness of the maps and the purpose of the performed work− First, quantitative maps (Arany, 1926) for the utilization of the lands at 1:75,0...

The DOSoReMI.hu (Digital, Optimized, Soil Related Maps and Information in Hungary) project was started intentionally for the renewal of the national soil spatial infrastructure in Hungary partly inspired by GSM.net initiative. During our activities we have significantly extended the potential, how soil information requirements could be satisfied. S...

A dataset of annual freshwater ice phenology was compiled for the largest river (Danube) and the largest lake (Lake Balaton) in eastern–central Europe, extending regular river and lake ice monitoring data through the use of historical observations and documentary records dating back to AD 1774 and AD 1885, respectively. What becomes clear is that t...

Over the last decades extensive work has been done on sampling optimization. Many of the related papers focused on the optimization of sampling for only one soil property. However, there is a necessity to prepare a sampling strategy which is optimized for multivariate digital soil mapping (DSM) purposes. The aim of our work was to elaborate a sampl...

Soil erosion by water is one of the most significant forms of soil degradation not just globally, but also in Europe. A new soil erosion risk map of Hungary has been compiled and published recently, using the combined outputs of the USLE and PESERA models. Our study aimed at providing evaluation of the map by using semi-quantitative validation data...

A data set of annual freshwater ice phenology was compiled for the largest river (Danube) and the largest lake (Lake Balaton) in East Central Europe, extending regular river and lake ice monitoring data through the use of historical observations and documentary records dating back to 1774 AD and 1885 AD, respectively. What becomes clear is that the...

The DOSoReMI.hu (Digital, Optimized, Soil Related Maps and Information in Hungary) project was started intentionally for the renewal of the national spatial soil infrastructure in Hungary partly inspired by GlobalSoilMap (GSM) initiative. During our activities we have significantly extended the potential, how soil information requirements could be...

The tasks of national spatial planning (i.e., delineation of areas with natural constraints or areas with excellent productivity; support of irrigation strategies; flood, drought, and climate change impact risk assessment) increasingly demand advanced or new kinds of spatial soil information, which cannot be fully satisfied by legacy soil maps or f...

With the ongoing DOSoReMI.hu project we aimed to significantly extend the potential, how soil information requirements could be satisfied in Hungary. We started to compile digital soil maps, which fulfil optimally general as well as specific national and international demands from the aspect of thematic, spatial and temporal accuracy. In addition t...

ABSTRACTThe conservation of soil resources is increasingly becoming a critical issue worldwide, with growing interest in carbon stocks and water storage within the soil. Hungary is no exception, and there has been a demand for a country level soil erosion map that incorporates digital information available from the latest surveys and digital mappin...

Development of DSM can be notably attributed to frequent limitations in the availability of proper soil information; consequently, it has been typically used in cases featured by limited soil data. Since SCORPAN equation includes other or previously measured properties of soil, the usage of legacy soil data supports the applicability of DSM and imp...

Spatial information about physical soil properties is in great demand, being basic input data in numerous applications. Soil texture can be characterized by different approaches, such as particle size distribution, plasticity index or soil texture classification. In accordance with the increasing demands for spatial soil texture information, our ai...

Due to former soil surveys and mapping activities significant amount of soil information has accumulated in Hungary. Present soil data requirements are mainly fulfilled with these available datasets either by their direct usage or after certain specific and generally fortuitous, thematic and/or spatial inference. Due to the more and more frequen...

Information collected with remote sensing technology has been utilized in soil mapping in numerous ways. Aerial photos and satellite images provide proper base maps and spatial framework for soil mapping. Remotely sensed data give both direct and indirect information on various soil features, thus supporting the two basic concepts applied for the c...

A felszini foldtani kepződmenyek talajkepződesi szempontbol tortenő ertekelese gyakorlati celu kozelites, amely a teruleten legvaloszinűbben előfordulo talajkepző kőzet leirasat szolgalja. A talajtani felvetelezesek hazai adatbazisokban elerhető, talajkepző kőzet adatai a sik- es dombvideki mezőgazdasagi teruleteken sűrűsodnek, azonban tematikusan...

Inland excess water hazard was regionalized and digitally mapped using auxiliary spatial environmental information for a county in Eastern Hungary. Quantified parameters representing the effect of soil, geology, groundwater, land use and hydrometeorology on the formulation of inland excess water were defined and spatially explicitly derived. The co...

The main objective of the DOSoReMI.hu (Digital, Optimized, Soil Related Maps and Information in Hungary) project is to significantly extend the potential, how demands on spatial soil related information could be satisfied in Hungary. Although a great amount of soil information is available due to former mappings and surveys, there are more and more...

Parent material, belonging either to autochthonous or allochthonous sediments, is formed by various physical and chemical processes that change the bedrock and repre-sents one of the key factors in soil-forming processes. The 1:100,000 scale AGROTOPO Database (VÁRALLYAY et al., 1979; AGROTOPO Adatbázis, 1994) clearly describes the soil types and t...

Anthropogenic effects on rivers, including engineering regulation, hydropower usage, and water pollution, not only change bed morphology and/or water quality but also affect the river ice regime. The length of the ice-affected season and the relative frequency of ice appearance might alter due to anthropogenic activities. Moreover, anthropogenicall...

Within the confines of Earth Observation Scientific Knowledge and Technology Transfer in Hungary (EKAT) titled ESA PECS project we gained forum for utilization of our earth observation (EO) knowledge and possibility for further development of experiences. The project aims the horizontal preparation of Hungary for ESA membership – for a dynamically...