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Soil Surveys — They're Not Just for Farmers.
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2009 Soil surveys may sound boring and useful only to farmers; however, nothing could be further from the truth. Soil surveys do contain inventories of the soils of an area; however, they also contain a wealth of tabular data that help interpret whether a ...
Lorraine J. Pellack
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Soil Surveys and Soil Analyses
The Journal of Agricultural Science, 1911 In undertaking a survey of the soils of a given district the methods of analysis and the classification to be adopted (which in its turn shapes the scheme of the work) must be determined by the purpose before the investigator at the outset. His end may be scientific–to assign the soils in question to their types, or practical–to give information to the
Hall, A. D., Russell, E. J.
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Estimating soil degradation in montane grasslands of North-eastern Italian Alps (Italy) [PDF]
, 2019 Grasslands cover a large portion of the terrestrial ecosystems, and are vital for biodiversity conservation, environmental protection and livestock husbandry.
Masin, Roberta +4 more
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The Forum of European Geological Surveys Geochemistry Task Group 1994-1996 inventory [PDF]
, 1997 The Forum of European Geological Surveys (FOREGS) includes representatives from 33 European countries and is responsible for co-ordinating Geological Survey activities in Europe.
Fordyce, F.M. +5 more
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Geostatistics or machine learning for mapping soil attributes and agricultural practices
Revista Ceres, 2020 Applying the upcoming technologies in agriculture has been a major economic, environmental and social challenge for scientists and farmers. In order to overcome such challenge, this study evaluated the advantages and limitations of using geostatistics ...
Wanderson de Sousa Mendes +4 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Performing ecological surveys for secretive, fossorial snakes is challenging. Traditional survey methods involve visual observation under artificial cover objects (ACOs); this is labor-intensive and requires multiple consistent surveys of suitable ...
Laura Matthias +4 more
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Spatial variation in biodiversity, soil degradation and productivity in agricultural landscapes in the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2009 There is a growing concern about food security and sustainability of agricultural production in developing countries. However, there are limited attempts to quantify agro-biodiversity losses and relate these losses to soil degradation and crop ...
Bruggen, A.H.C., van +3 more
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Hydrological Aspects of Electromagnetic Surveys
Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, 2014 Interpreting Electromagnetic (EM) surveys - Electromagnetic induction techniques have now largely replaced previous descriptive, and largely subjective, techniques used for soil salinity surveys.
Baden G. Williams, John Anderson
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How well does digital soil mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA [PDF]
SOIL, 2022 We present methods to evaluate the spatial patterns of the geographic distribution of soil properties in the USA, as shown in gridded maps produced by digital soil mapping (DSM) at global (SoilGrids v2), national (Soil Properties and Class 100 m Grids of
D. G. Rossiter +4 more
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DETERMINATION OF SOIL VOLUME BY PLANIALTIMETRIC SURVEY METHODS [PDF]
Engenharia Agrícola, 2020 Considering the importance of topographic surveys to determine soil volumes and study efficient and accessible alternatives for this operation, this study aimed to analyze methods and respective equipment for planialtimetric surveys to determine soil ...
Luiz S. Vanzela +2 more
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