Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook

Author: National Committee on Soil and Terrain,
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643098615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
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.

Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources

Author: NJ McKenzie
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099050
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description
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 Physical Measurement and Interpretation for Land Evaluation

Author: Keppel Coughlan
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 064309959X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
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.

Australian Soils and Landscapes

Author: Neil McKenzie
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643069585
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
A unique compendium of the most important and widespread soils of Australia and their associated landscapes.

Soil Chemical Methods

Author: G. E. Rayment
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 064306768X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 517

Book Description
Describes over 200 laboratory and field chemical tests relevant to Australasia and beyond.

Australian Soil and Land Survey

Author: Ronald C. McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
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.

Australian Laboratory Handbook of Soil and Water Chemical Methods

Author: G. E. Rayment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
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.

Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook

Author: National Committee on Soil and Terrain (Australia)
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643093958
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
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.

Soil Analysis

Author: K. I. Peverill
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643063765
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 427

Book Description
A practical guide to soil tests for Australian soils and conditions.

Soil Structure and Fabric

Author: R Brewer
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643106189
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
Soil Structure and Fabric sets out a method of describing the structure and fabric of soils that proceeds consistently from macroscopic descriptions in the field to descriptions from standard thin sections as viewed with a light microscope. Most of the book is devoted to the description and classification of the microscopic characteristics of soils.