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Category : Soils
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Division of Soils Technical Paper
Author: Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources
Author: Neil McKenziePublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643090916
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Provides guidelines to promote the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia.
Technical Report S.
Author: Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources
Author: NJ McKenziePublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099050
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources promotes the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia. These surveys are primarily field operations that aim to identify, describe, map and evaluate the various kinds of soil or land resources in specific areas. The advent of geographic information systems, global positioning systems, airborne gamma radiometric remote sensing, digital terrain analysis, simulation modelling, efficient statistical analysis and internet-based delivery of information has dramatically changed the scene in the past two decades. As successor to the Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbook: Guidelines for Conducting Surveys, this authoritative guide incorporates these new methods and techniques for supporting natural resource management. Soil and land resource surveyors, engineering and environmental consultants, commissioners of surveys and funding agencies will benefit from the practical information provided on how best to use the new technologies that have been developed, as will professionals in the spatial sciences such as geomorphology, ecology and hydrology.
Soil Physical Measurement and Interpretation for Land Evaluation
Author: Keppel CoughlanPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 064309959X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Soil physical measurements are essential for solving many natural resource management problems. This operational laboratory and field handbook provides, for the first time, a standard set of methods that are cost-effective and well suited to land resource survey. It provides: *practical guidelines on the soil physical measurements across a range of soils, climates and land uses; *straightforward descriptions for each method (including common pitfalls) that can be applied by people with a rudimentary knowledge of soil physics, and *guidelines on the interpretation of results and integration with land resource assessment. Soil Physical Measurement And Interpretation for Land Evaluation begins with an introduction to land evaluation and then outlines procedures for field sampling. Twenty detailed chapters cover pore space relations, water retention, hydraulic conductivity, water table depth, dispersion, aggregation, particle size, shrinkage, Atterburg limits and strength. The book includes procedures for estimating soil physical properties from more readily available data and shows how soil physical data can be integrated into land planning and management decisions.
Technical Report
Author: United States Army Tank-Automotive Command. Mobility Systems LaboratoryPublisher:
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Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Soil Biology Primer
Author: Technical Paper
Author: CSIRO (Australia). Division of Land Resources ManagementPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Soils: Basic Concepts and Future Challenges
Author: Riccardo ScalenghePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113946003X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
This book was born as an international tribute to Fiorenzo C. Ugolini, an outstanding soil scientist, now retired from university teaching and research. It is a synthesis of the knowledge of soils, their genesis, functions and management, and includes contributions from leading soil scientists. It provides the basic concepts as well as data and practical examples from across the discipline. The book also discusses the increasingly important role of soils in enabling the preservation of life and contains a rare attempt to cross-harmonize the Soil Groups of the World Reference Base of Soil Resources with the Orders of the Soil Taxonomy. It also considers the possible existence of extraterrestrial soils based on the findings from the last space missions. This volume will be a valuable resource for researchers and students of soil science, soil conservation, geography and landscape ecology.
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