6. Summary

This chapter presented a general approach in using ANNs to produce high-resolution soil properties. It started from preparing input and target data, following by building ANN structure, training ANNs, and optimizing networks. Three successful ANNs for soil texture, SOC, and soil drainage described how to select the fittest hidden layer's nodes, how to select the best combination of inputs, and how to produce high-resolution maps. Two extending applications of the ANNs gave advices in using the obtained ANNs outside the area of ANN calibration.
