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Guidelines for surveying soil and land resources / N.J. McKenzie ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Australian soil and land survey handbook.
- Australian soil and land survey handbook series ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soil surveys--Australia--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Soil surveys.
- Land use surveys--Australia--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Land use surveys.
- Landforms--Australia--Classification--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Landforms.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (572 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Provides guidelines to promote the development and implementation of consistent methods for conducting soil and land resource surveys.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613155054
- 9780643099050
- 0643099050
- 9781283155052
- 1283155052
- 9780643095809
- 0643095802
- OCLC:
- 476178722
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