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Title Guidelines for surveying soil and land resources / N.J. McKenzie [and others]
Edition 2nd ed
Published Melbourne : CSIRO Pub., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 557 pages) : illustrations
Series Australian soil and land survey handbook ; v. 2
Australian soil and land survey handbook ; v. 2.
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
Summary Provides guidelines to promote the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Soil surveys -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Land use surveys -- Australia -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Landforms -- Australia -- Classification -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Soil Science.
Land use surveys
Landforms -- Classification
Soil surveys
Australia
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author McKenzie, Neil, 1958-
ISBN 9780643095809
0643095802
9781613443330
1613443331
9780643090910
0643090916