Some of the EarthÕs systems are changing fast. Because of this the worldÕs peoples are expressing themselves through the current ambiance of global change under some degree of uncertainty. I am therefore keen to explore and broaden our understanding of the fourth dimension- time, in the scheme of land surface processes. We should apply existing knowledge or develop new or enhanced techniques to 'É link land-atmosphere energy and material fluxes...' and 'to better understand the feedback loops between the landscape and atmosphere'. This is important for monitoring material fluxes at the local and regional scales. My research portfolio is therefore diversifying from quantitative soil landscape modelling into land use change and its impacts on material fluxes. We need to look at time-dependent landscape processes as influenced by the anthropological factor, and then extending this to the understanding of global changes. My past research has addressed the topics and problems of interest to practitioners of soil mapping and indeed practitioners of land resource assessment, by developing a number of quantitative spatial prediction techniques for mapping the soil-landscape or soilscape. The techniques I have developed are based on quantification of interrelationships of the soil with the land surface configuration to take advantage of rich and emerging new data sources (remote sensing, Gamma Radiometric data, proximal sensing with Electromagnetic Induction, etc). An innovative technique that he been involved in developing, termed as regression-kriging, has been widely cited by other researchers. Additionally I was one of the first to apply the fuzzy sets theory to mapping the soil continuum as a continuous land surface body, and I am continuing the work in both areas
