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Land cover maps are tools that provide vital information about the Earth's land use and cover patterns. They aid policy development, urban planning, and forest and agricultural monitoring. [1] [2] The systematic mapping of land cover patterns, including change detection, often follows two main approaches: Field survey
Typical information in a published county soil survey includes the following: [1] a brief overview on how to use the survey; a general soil map for comparing the sustainability of large sections of the county; a detailed map with specific soil series outlined and indexed; a section on the use and management of soils
Land use capability maps are maps created to represent the potential uses of a "unit" of land. They are measured using various indicators, although the most common are five physical factors ( rock type , soil type , slope, erosion degree and type, and vegetation).
The National Cooperative Soil Survey Program (NCSS) in the United States is a nationwide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies and institutions. This partnership works together to cooperatively investigate, inventory, document, classify, and interpret soils and to disseminate, publish, and promote the use of information about the soils of the United States and its trust ...
Such maps are typically richer in context and show higher spatial detail, yet are not necessarily more accurate than traditional soil maps. Soil maps produced using (geo)statistical technique can also include an estimate of the model uncertainty. [3] An example of a traditional soil map showing soil mapping units, described soil profiles and ...
Digital soil mapping tries to overcome some of the drawbacks of the traditional soil maps that are often only focused on delineating soil-classes i.e. soil types. [5] Such traditional soil maps: do not provide information for modeling the dynamics of soil conditions and; are inflexible to quantitative studies on the functionality of soils.
An optimum figure for topsoil in the UK is a C:N ratio of less than 20:1. ... erosion through the use of cover crops in order to build organic matter in the soil. The ...
Map of the United States showing what percentage of the soil in a given area is classified as an Ultisol-type soil. The great majority of the land area classified in the highest category (75%-or-greater Ultisol) lies in the South and overlays with the Piedmont Plateau, which runs as a diagonal line through the South from southeast (in Alabama) to northwest (up into parts of Maryland).