| Description |
xiv, 557 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Australian soil and land survey handbook series ; v. 2 |
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Australian soil and land survey handbook ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Part 1: Introduction -- Ch 1. Rationale -- Ch 2. Approaches to land resource survey -- Ch 3. Scale -- Part 2: Landscape context and remote sensing -- Ch 4. Geology, geomorphology and regolith -- Ch 5. Soil and landscape processes -- Ch 6. Digital terrain analysis -- Ch 7. Hydrology -- Ch 8. Vegetation -- Ch 9. land use mapping -- Ch 10. remote sensing with air photography -- Ch 11. Remote sensing with imaging spectroscopy -- Ch 12. Temporal analysis with remote sensing -- Ch 13. Remote sensing with gamma-ray spectrometry -- Part 3: Survey mechanics -- Ch 14. Survey specification and planning -- Ch 15. Survey resources -- Ch 16. Field operations -- Ch 17. Measuring soil -- Ch 18. Qualitative survey -- Ch 19. Classifying soil and land -- Part 4: Digital soil mapping and pedometrics -- Ch 20. Sampling using statistical methods -- Ch 21. Statistical analysis -- Ch 22. Predicting soil properties using pedotransfer functions and environmental correlation -- Ch 23. Geostatistics -- Ch 24. Analysing uncertainty -- Ch 25. Information management -- Ch 26. Synthesis studies: making the most of existing data -- Part 5: Land evaluation -- Ch 27. Conventional land evaluation -- Ch 28. Quantitative land evaluation -- Ch 29. Intensive survey for agricultural management -- Ch 30. Monitoring soil and land condition -- Ch 31. Legal and planning framework -- Ch 32. Communications |
| Summary |
Provides guidelines to promote the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia |
| Analysis |
AUSTRALIA |
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LAND USE |
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LANDFORMS |
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SOIL CLASSIFICATION |
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SOIL SURVEYS |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Land use surveys -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Land use surveys -- Australia.
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Landforms -- Australia -- Classification.
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Landforms -- Australia -- Classification -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Soil surveys -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Soil surveys -- Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
McKenzie, Neil, 1958-
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
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| ISBN |
0643090916 |
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9780643090910 |
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