Manual of Methods for Soil and Land Evaluation

Manual of Methods for Soil and Land Evaluation
Author: Edoardo A.C. Costantini
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-01-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781578085712

The goal of the manual is to supply an operational tool for pedologists, agronomists, environmentalists, and all of the other specialists who carry out land evaluation for agriculture and forestry or, more generally, stakeholders and policy makers who make decisions at the local level based on the knowledge of the nature of soil. Discussion of the topics is not only technical and operational, but also in-depth and didactic; therefore, the text may also be used as a valid complement for students majoring in subjects that involve soil use, management and conservation. The literature offers a wide choice of possible soil and land evaluation methods, while knowledge of the relationships existing between the physical characteristics of lands, particularly those of soils, and the requirements of specific uses is limited.

Manual of Methods for Soil and Land Evaluation

Manual of Methods for Soil and Land Evaluation
Author: Edoardo A. C. Costantini
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138113985

The goal of the manual is to supply an operational tool for pedologists, agronomists, environmentalists, and all of the other specialists who carry out land evaluation for agriculture and forestry or, more generally, stakeholders and policy makers who make decisions at the local level based on the knowledge of the nature of soil. Discussion of the topics is not only technical and operational, but also in-depth and didactic; therefore, the text may also be used as a valid complement for students majoring in subjects that involve soil use, management and conservation. The literature offers a wide choice of possible soil and land evaluation methods, while knowledge of the relationships existing between the physical characteristics of lands, particularly those of soils, and the requirements of specific uses is limited.

Soil Analysis

Soil Analysis
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.

Soil Physical Measurement and Interpretation for Land Evaluation

Soil Physical Measurement and Interpretation for Land Evaluation
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.

Booker Tropical Soil Manual

Booker Tropical Soil Manual
Author: J.R. Landon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2014-01-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317902092

First published in 1991. This is a more portable version of the Booker Tropical Soil Manual, in which the format (and weight) of the first edition have been reduced whilst retaining as much as possible of the original clarity. It also includes new content and appendices that cover the revised FAO publications on soil classification and on water quality for agriculture.

Booker Tropical Soil Manual

Booker Tropical Soil Manual
Author: J.R. Landon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 847
Release: 2014-01-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317902084

First published in 1991. This is a more portable version of the Booker Tropical Soil Manual, in which the format (and weight) of the first edition have been reduced whilst retaining as much as possible of the original clarity. It also includes new content and appendices that cover the revised FAO publications on soil classification and on water quality for agriculture.

Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources

Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources
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.

Soil Organic Carbon Mapping Cookbook

Soil Organic Carbon Mapping Cookbook
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2018-05-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9251304408

The Soil Organic Carbon Mapping cookbook provides a step-by-step guidance for developing 1 km grids for soil carbon stocks. It includes the preparation of local soil data, the compilation and pre-processing of ancillary spatial data sets, upscaling methodologies, and uncertainty assessments. Guidance is mainly specific to soil carbon data, but also contains many generic sections on soil grid development, as it is relevant for other soil properties. This second edition of the cookbook provides generic methodologies and technical steps to produce SOC maps and has been updated with knowledge and practical experiences gained during the implementation process of GSOCmap V1.0 throughout 2017. Guidance is mainly specific to SOC data, but as this cookbook contains generic sections on soil grid development it can be applicable to map various soil properties.

Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources

Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources
Author: Neil McKenzie
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0643090916

Provides guidelines to promote the development and implementation of consistent methods and standards for conducting soil and land resource surveys in Australia.