Przestrzenna charakterystyka środowiska glebowego Polski w systemie geoinformacyjnym

The spatial characterisation o f soil environment parameterised according to laboratory analyses belongs to the most problematical issues of soil cartography. The geo-informatic system presented in the paper is one o f few Polish solutions to this problem. It consists of a soil sample bank and a soil cartographic database, in which soil quality parameters are being transformed into a cartographic presentation. Resulting cartographic applications are redox resistance maps, maps of surface area o f soil types and maps of hydro-physical features of the soil environment.