Guidlelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources

by Mckenzie, N. J.; Grundy, M. J.; Webster, R.; Ringrose-Voase, A. J.

• ISBN13: 9780643090910
• ISBN10: 0643090916
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resourcespromotes 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 modeling, 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Rationale	p. 3
Approaches to land resource survey	p. 15
Scale	p. 27
Landscape context and remote sensing	p. 45
Geology, geomorphology and regolith	p. 47
Soil and landscape processes	p. 61
Digital terrain analysis	p. 75
Hydrology	p. 93
Vegetation	p. 115
Land use mapping	p. 143
Remote sensing with air photography	p. 157
Remote sensing with imaging spectroscopy	p. 167
Temporal analysis with remote sensing	p. 179
Remote sensing with gamma-ray spectrometry	p. 189
Survey mechanics	p. 203
Survey specification and planning	p. 205
Survey resources	p. 225
Field operations	p. 241
Measuring soil	p. 263
Qualitative survey	p. 285
Classifying soil and land	p. 307
Digital soil mapping and pedometrics	p. 317
Sampling using statistical methods	p. 319
Statistical analysis	p. 327
Predicting soil properties using pedotransfer functions and environmental correlation	p. 349
Geostatistics	p. 369
Analysing uncertainty	p. 383
Information management	p. 395
Synthesis studies: making the most of existing data	p. 407
Colour plates	p. 419
Land evaluation	p. 427
Conventional land evaluation	p. 429
Quantitative land evaluation	p. 451
Intensive survey for agricultural management	p. 469
Monitoring soil and land condition	p. 491
Legal and planning framework	p. 515
Communication	p. 525
Index	p. 547
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