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Guidelines for surveying soil and land resources /

Provides guidelines to promote the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McKenzie, Neil, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Melbourne : CSIRO Pub., 2007.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Australian soil and land survey handbook ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Part 1: Introduction; 1 Rationale; 2 Approaches to land resource survey; 3 Scale; Part 2: Landscape context and remote sensing; 4 Geology, geomorphology and regolith; 5 Soil and landscape processes; 6 Digital terrain analysis; 7 Hydrology; 8 Vegetation; 9 Land use mapping; 10 Remote sensing with air photography; 11 Remote sensing with imaging spectroscopy; 12 Temporal analysis with remote sensing; 13 Remote sensing with gamma-ray spectrometry; Part 3: Survey mechanics; 14 Survey specification and planning; 15 Survey resources; 16 Field operations.
  • 17 Measuring soil18 Qualitative survey; 19 Classifying soil and land; Part 4: Digital soil mapping and pedometrics; 20 Sampling using statistical methods; 21 Statistical analysis; 22 Predicting soil properties using pedotransfer functions and environmental correlation; 23 Geostatistics; 24 Analysing uncertainty; 25 Information management; 26 Synthesis studies: making the most of existing data; Colour plates; Part 5: Land evaluation; 27 Conventional land evaluation; 28 Quantitative land evaluation; 29 Intensive survey for agricultural management; 30 Monitoring soil and land condition.
  • 31 Legal and planning framework32 Communication; Index.