Download or read book Communication of Soil Survey and Related Soil Management Information written by Roger Pennock and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Soil Description written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soils are affected by human activities, such as industrial, municipal and agriculture, that often result in soil degradation and loss. In order to prevent soil degradation and to rehabilitate the potentials of degraded soils, reliable soil data are the most important prerequisites for the design of appropriate land-use systems and soil management practices as well as for a better understanding of the environment. The availability of reliable information on soil morphology and other characteristics obtained through examination and description of the soil in the field is essential, and the use of a common language is of prime importance. These guidelines, based on the latest internationally accepted systems and classifications, provide a complete procedure for soil description and for collecting field data. To help beginners, some explanatory notes are included as well as keys based on simple test and observations.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Digital Soil Mapping written by Janis L. Boettinger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Soil Mapping is the creation and the population of a geographically referenced soil database. It is generated at a given resolution by using field and laboratory observation methods coupled with environmental data through quantitative relationships. Digital soil mapping is advancing on different fronts at different rates all across the world. This book presents the state-of-the art and explores strategies for bridging research, production, and environmental application of digital soil mapping.It includes examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The chapters address the following topics: - evaluating and using legacy soil data - exploring new environmental covariates and sampling schemes - using integrated sensors to infer soil properties or status - innovative inference systems predicting soil classes, properties, and estimating their uncertainties - using digital soil mapping and techniques for soil assessment and environmental application - protocol and capacity building for making digital soil mapping operational around the globe.
Download or read book Soil Resource Inventories and Development Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elementary Principles in Management written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by the Soil Conservation Service for employees who wish to acquire a basic understanding of the principles of management. The Service provides this opportunity in self-development for those with interest and potential in this field.
Download or read book Delivery of Soil Survey Information to Non soil Specialists to Support Land Management by Means of Special Purpose Classifications and Conceptual Toposequence Models written by Gerard John Grealish and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between soil information and good decisions about land use and management, or even the recognition that a decision is needed and that soil information can play a role, needs to be improved. The link between soil information and applying it is critical to maximise the use of the soil resource in a sustainable way. Good management decisions require correct and understandable soil information for a location; confusing and inappropriate data can lead to suboptimal practices. Uncertainty about appropriate management arises because soils are highly variable both spatially (horizontally and vertically) and temporally. To support land management decisions that are generally made by non-soil specialists, information about the soil needs to be delivered in a format that they can understand, afford and apply. The aim of this work was to deliver soil information to improve land management by development of an approach to convey soil survey information by means of special purpose soil classifications and conceptual toposequence models. The approach is presented to: (i) salvage and reinterpret valuable soil survey legacy data from the plethora of detailed published soil survey technical reports and their numerous appendices of quantitative and qualitative data for future science and (ii) deliver complex or intricate soil survey information to non-soil specialists using a vocabulary and diagrams that they can understand. This was achieved by re-interpreting soil survey data in a framework comprising special purpose soil classifications and conceptual toposequence models for specific geographic regions and/or practical applications. The process involved an experienced soil surveyor to acquire and interpret conventional soil data. Then to distil the highly technical soil survey information into a format for a non-soil specialist audience, by constructing simple but readily understandable descriptive conceptual toposequence models and to develop a soil identification key. The soil identification key honours the same international (or national) classification sequence but is constructed in plain language that non-technical people understand and can apply to determine soil types. Soil types classified using the special purpose soil classification systems are correlated to formal international and national soil classification systems allowing technical soil property data and land suitability evaluations to be applied. To illustrate the wide applicability of this approach, case studies were conducted in three different parts of the world - Kuwait, Brunei, and Australia, each of which exhibit vastly different landscapes, climates, soil types and land use problems. The studies were driven by demands to contribute to on-going projects, having a direct impact on current and significant investment decisions. This thesis is submitted in the publication format through six papers as thesis chapters. The approach improved the delivery of soil information by addressing issues that included: communication - through the use of plain language and simple words; scale - using diagrams to mimic the landscape; identification of soils - by using readily recognisable observable soil features; technology transfer - by associating local soil types with national or international taxonomic soil classifications; and timely -achieved by reworking legacy soil survey data. Uptake of the information to answer current questions is discussed in the case studies and confirmed the value of this approach for presenting soil survey information in a user friendly nontechnical format that a non-soil specialist audience understood. The approach developed and used is applicable to other locations throughout the world outside of: (i) Brunei, especially in tropical landscapes, (ii) Kuwait, especially in arid and semi-arid landscapes and (iii) Australian winter rainfall landscapes, especially in Mediterranean landscapes - in order to establish similar local classifications and conceptual models.
Download or read book Use and Usefulness of a Simplified Soil Survey Report written by John M. Parsey and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digital Soil Mapping written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-12-18 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book compiles the main ideas and methodologies that have been proposed and tested within these last fifteen years in the field of Digital Soil Mapping (DSM). Begining with current experiences of soil information system developments in various regions of the world, this volume presents states of the art of different topics covered by DSM: Conception and handling of soil databases, sampling methods, new soil spatial covariates, Quantitative spatial modelling, Quality assessment and representation of DSM outputs. This book provides a solid support to students, researchers and engineers interested in modernising soil survey approaches with numerical techniques. It is also of great interest for potential soil data users.* A new concept to meet the worldwide demand for spatial soil data * The first compilation of ideas and methodologies of Digital Soil Mapping * Offers a variety of specialities: soil surveying, geostatistics, data mining, fuzzy logic, remote sensing techniques, Geographical Information Science,...* Written by 82 researchers from 13 different countries
Download or read book GlobalSoilMap written by Dominique Arrouays and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system contains contributions that were presented at the 1st GlobalSoilMap conference, held 7-9 October 2013 in Orléans, France. These contributions demonstrate the latest developments in the GlobalSoilMap project and digital soil mapping technology for which the ultimate aim is to produce a high resolution digital spatial soil information system of selected soil properties and their uncertainties for the entire world. GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the global spatial soil information system aims to stimulate capacity building and new incentives to develop full GlobalSoilMap products in all parts of the world.
Download or read book Soil Change Guide Procedures for Soil Survey and Resource Inventory written by U.S. Department of Agriculture and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many soil properties have changed and can change as a result of management, historical land use, or even natural factors, such as drought, interacting with land use. National soil survey databases currently include soil property information for the relatively static soil properties, such as texture, and also for properties affected by management, such as soil organic matter. The databases do not, however, distinguish the values of dynamic soil properties (e.g., organic matter, bulk density, infiltration rate) according to their land use, management system, ecological state, or plant community. ?Dynamic soil properties? as defined in this Guide are soil properties that change within the human time scale. Differences that may exist in these properties can affect the performance of the soil. Furthermore, some dynamic soil properties change very little in response to management and disturbances.
Download or read book Pedogenesis and Soil Taxonomy Concepts and Interactions written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1983-07-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pedogenesis and Soil Taxonomy: Concepts and Interactions
Download or read book Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources written by NJ McKenzie and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Description and Sampling of Contaminated Soils written by J. Russell Boulding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of EPA's bestselling book, Description and Sampling of Contaminated Soils: A Field Guide, Second Edition, has been revised and significantly expanded over the original edition. An ideal reference for anyone involved in site investigations, this guide describes how to determine the amount and extent of soil contamination and potential for movement of contaminants in the soil and groundwater. It contains checklists, tables, and step-by-step descriptions of methods and procedures for: Cost-effective, detailed site investigations for evaluating the potential for contaminant transport Field collection of information on soil engineering properties required for remediation selection and design This guide also features an adaptation of soil description procedures used by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (SCS) for investigating contaminated sites. The SCS soil description and classification procedures, when used in combination with the Unified Soil Classification System currently used by geologists and engineers, greatly improves contaminated site assessments.
Download or read book Global Change and Forest Soils written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Change and Forest Soils: Cultivating Stewardship of a Finite Natural Resource, Volume 36, provides a state-of-the-science summary and synthesis of global forest soils that identifies concerns, issues and opportunities for soil adaptation and mitigation as external pressures from global changes arise. Where, how and why some soils are resilient to global change while others are at risk is explored, as are upcoming train wrecks and success stories across boreal, temperate, and tropical forests. Each chapter offers multiple sections written by leading soil scientists who comment on wildfires, climate change and forest harvesting effects, while also introducing examples of current global issues. Readers will find this book to be an integrated, up-to-date assessment on global forest soils. - Presents sections on boreal, temperate and tropical soils for a diverse audience - Serves as an important reference source for anyone interested in both a big-picture assessment of global soil issues and an in-depth examination of specific environmental topics - Provides a unique synthesis of forest soils and their collective ability to respond to global change - Offers chapters written by leading soil scientists - Prepares readers to meet the daily challenges of drafting multi-resource environmental science and policy documents
Download or read book Proceedings of the Eighth International Soil Management Workshop Utilization of Soil Survey Information For Sustainable Land Use U S Department of Agriculture May 1993 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assistance Available from the Soil Conservation Service written by United States. Soil Conservation Service and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Soil Survey and Land Evaluation in Ecological Research written by R. F. Breimer and published by Paris, France : UNESCO. This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
