RT Journal Article T1 Spatial soil sampling design using apparent soil electrical conductivity measurements A1 Siqueira, Glécio Machado A1 Dafonte Dafonte, Jorge A1 Paz González, Antonio A1 Vidal Vázquez, Eva A1 Valcárcel-Armesto, Montserrat A1 Guedes Filho, Osvaldo K1 Geostatistics K1 Semivariogram K1 Spatial variability K1 Optimization K1 Soil sampling AB Soil sampling is an important stage of digital soil mapping. The objective of this study was to characterize the spatial design of soil sampling using soil apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) and its optimized spatial sampling. For the characterization, it was used the Spatial Simulated Annealing (SSA) technique, incorporated on the software SANOS 0.1, and the method of response surface sampling design on the software ESAP 2.35. The ECa was measured at 1,887 points in an area of 6 ha located in the northwestern region of Spain. The EM38-DD equipment (Geonics Limited 2005) was used at 2 depths: vertical dipole (1.5 m effective measurement depth) and horizontal dipole (0.75 m effective measurement depth). Semivariogram showed trend for ECa in vertical dipole (ECa-V) and ECa in horizontal dipole (ECa-H). Software SANOS 0.1 and ESAP 2.35 were used to obtain the 40-point sampling scheme, using the 2 schemes (SANOS and ESAP). ECa-V estimation values at the 1,887 points were calculated with residual ordinary kriging. The sampling scheme obtained from ESAP was better than with SANOS PB Instituto Agronômico de Campinas SN 0006-8705 YR 2016 FD 2016-09-29 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16248 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16248 LA eng NO Siqueira, Glécio Machado, Dafonte, Jorge Dafonte, González, Antonio Paz, Vázquez, Eva Vidal, Armesto, Monteserrat Valcarcel, & Guedes Filho, Osvaldo. (2016). Spatial soil sampling design using apparent soil electrical conductivity measurements. Bragantia, 75(4), 459-473. Epub September 29, 2016.https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1678-4499.445 NO The authors are grateful to the Ministerio de AsuntosExteriores y de Cooperación (MAEC-AECID) from Spainfor the granting of scholarships for PhD studies. This workhas been funded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia(project CGL2005-08219-C02), by Xunta de Galicia(PGIDIT06PXIC291062PN), Spanish Ministry of Economyand Competitiveness (project CGL2013-47814-C2) and bythe European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) DS Minerva RD 24 abr 2026