Australian Soil And Land Survey Handbook
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Author | : National Committee on Soil and Terrain, |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009-03-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0643098615 |
The Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook specifies methods and terminology for soil and land surveys. It has been widely used throughout Australia, providing one reference set of definitions for the characterisation of landform, vegetation, land surface, soil and substrate. The book advocates that a comprehensive suite of land and soil attributes be recorded in a uniform manner. This approach is more useful than the allocation of land or soil to preconceived types or classes. The third edition includes revised chapters on location and vegetation as well as some new landform elements. These updates have been guided by the National Committee on Soil and Terrain, a steering committee comprising representatives from key federal, state and territory land resource assessment agencies. Essential reading for all professionals involved in land resource surveys, this book will also be of value to students and educators in soil science, geography, ecology, agriculture, forestry, resource management, planning, landscape architecture and engineering.
Author | : NJ McKenzie |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2008-04-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0643099050 |
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.
Author | : Keppel Coughlan |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2002-11-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 064309959X |
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.
Author | : Neil McKenzie |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2004-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0643069585 |
A unique compendium of the most important and widespread soils of Australia and their associated landscapes.
Author | : G. E. Rayment |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 064306768X |
Describes over 200 laboratory and field chemical tests relevant to Australasia and beyond.
Author | : Ronald C. McDonald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
This handbook specifies methods, standards and terminology for the description of sites in the field. It provides Australia with one set of definitions and has been designed for field use. This edition has been revised and contains a number of new sections. The book is aimed at students and educators in soil science, geography, ecology, agriculture, forestry, resource management, planning, landscape architecture and engineering.
Author | : G. E. Rayment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Volume 3 of a three-volume set of Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbooks for the practising chemist/analyst, setting out guidelines for the survey of components of land resources. It is designed to minimise the effect of such variables in surveying as the choice of analytical methods, quality of field sampling, preservation of samples, etc, and to promote standardisation of soil and water analysis.
Author | : National Committee on Soil and Terrain (Australia) |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0643093958 |
Contains significant changes to the Vegetation chapter and revisions to the Location chapter bringing it up-to-date with the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and changes to the Substrate chapter relating to the regolith.
Author | : K. I. Peverill |
Publisher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 0643063765 |
A practical guide to soil tests for Australian soils and conditions.
Author | : Pavel Krasilnikov |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2009-12 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1849774358 |
Soil classification and terminology are fundamental issues for the clear understanding and communication of the subject. However, while there are many national soil classification systems, these do not directly correlate with each other. This leads to confusion and great difficulty in undertaking comparative scientific research that draws on more than one system and in making sense of international scientific papers using a system that is unfamiliar to the reader. This book aims to clarify this position by describing and comparing different systems and evaluating them in the context of the World Reference Base (WRB) for Soil Resources. The latter was set up to resolve these problems by creating an international 'umbrella' system for soil correlation. All soil scientists should then classify soils using the WRB as well as their national systems. The book is a definitive and essential reference work for all students studying soils as part of life, earth or environmental sciences, as well as professional soil scientists.Published with International Union of Soil Sciences