Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook - by National Committee on Soil and Terrain

2010 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-153
Author(s):  
Ian Baillie
Keyword(s):  
National Committee ◽  
Land Survey ◽  
Australian Soil

Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Resource Assessment ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Federal State ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Land Survey ◽  
Uniform Manner ◽  
Australian Soil

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.

Australian Soil Classification

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Isbell ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Soil Classification ◽  
National Committee ◽  
New Order ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Basic Requirement ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Land Survey ◽  
Australian Soil ◽  
Main Change

The Australian Soil Classification provides a framework for organising knowledge about Australian soils by allocating soils to classes via a key. Since its publication in 1996, this book has been widely adopted and formally endorsed as the official national system. It has provided a means of communication among scientists and land managers and has proven to be of particular value in land resource survey and research programs, environmental studies and education. Classification is a basic requirement of all science and needs to be periodically revised as knowledge increases. This third edition of The Australian Soil Classification includes updates from a working group of the National Committee on Soil and Terrain (NCST). The main change in this edition accommodates new knowledge and understanding of the significance, nature, distribution and refined testing for soils comprising deep sands, leading to the inclusion of a new Order, the Arenosols. The introduction of the Arenosols Order led to a review and changes to Calcarosols, Tenosols and Rudosols. The Australian Soil Classification is Volume 4 in the Australian Soil and Land Survey Handbooks Series.

Rapid assessment of soil compaction damage I. The SOILpak score, a semi-quantitative measure of soil structural form

Soil Research ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Soil Compaction ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Rapid Assessment ◽  
Quantitative Measure ◽  
Visual Assessment ◽  
Land Evaluation ◽  
Structural Form ◽  
Cotton Industry ◽  
Land Survey ◽  
Australian Soil

Agricultural land evaluation is hampered by inadequate procedures for assessing the severity of soil compaction. Therefore, the ‘SOILpak scoring procedure’ has been developed within the Australian cotton industry to allow semi-quantitative assessment of soil structural form. It allows compaction severity in Vertisols to be separated into as many as 20 categories on a scale of 0.0 (severely compacted) to 2.0 (excellent structure for root growth). The procedure is based upon visual assessment of soil samples in the field as they are pulled apart by hand. The SOILpak scoring system is well accepted by advisory staff because of its speed and simplicity. However, there have been some problems with operator bias, and an inability to deal with continuity of vertical macropores, degree of encroachment of under-furrow compaction into the ridges where cotton is planted, and the presence of thin smeared layers. This paper presents a modified SOILpak scoring procedure that addresses these problems. Also, the SOILpak scoring procedure has been integrated with terminology in the ‘Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbooks’ so that it can be used by soil surveyors in other areas.

Australian Soil Classification

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Isbell ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Soil Classification ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Acid Sulfate Soils ◽  
Basic Requirement ◽  
National System ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Sulfate Soils ◽  
Australian Soil

The Australian Soil Classification provides a framework for organising knowledge about Australian soils by allocating soils to classes via a key. Since its publication in 1996, this book has been widely adopted and formally endorsed as the official national system. It has provided a means of communication among scientists and land managers and has proven to be of particular value in land resource survey and research programs, environmental studies and education. Classification is a basic requirement of all science and needs to be periodically revised as knowledge increases. This Second Edition of The Australian Soil Classification includes updates from a working group of the National Committee on Soil and Terrain (NCST), especially in regards to new knowledge about acid sulfate soils (sulfidic materials). Modifications include expanding the classification to incorporate different kinds of sulfidic materials, the introduction of subaqueous soils as well as new Vertosol subgroups, new Hydrosol family criteria and the consistent use of the term reticulate. All soil orders except for Ferrosols and Sodosols are affected by the changes.

An Interactive U.S. Land Survey Exercise

1996 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Philip R. Pryde
Keyword(s):  
Land Survey

The Political Economic Structure of Early Media Reform Before and After the Communications Act of 1934

Resonance ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-266
Author(s):  
Josh Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountain ◽  
Advisory Council ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
Educational Broadcasting ◽  
System Building ◽  
Before And After ◽  
National Advisory Council ◽  
Media Reform ◽  
Activist Groups

This paper examines how early media reform work evolved from political activism into a system-building advocacy campaign in support of Schools of the Air between 1930 and 1940. Calling upon archival work that focuses on 1935–1940 records, it examines how prominent activist groups the National Committee for Education by Radio (NCER) and the National Advisory Council for Radio in Education (NACRE) shifted their strategic approaches to adjust to the “public interest” mandate of the Communications Act of 1934. Though scholarship has chronicled disagreements between the NCER and NACRE over how to best support educational broadcasting, a dialectical interplay emerged after the act during the New Deal due to the influence of the Federal Radio Education Committee (FREC). FREC inspired A.G. Crane of the NCER to build the Rocky Mountain Radio Council (RMRC). The RMRC was the first sustainable educational media network, and the group coined the term public broadcasting. While the Communications Act signaled the end of the first wave of media activism, the policy also inspired reformers to develop a new system-building strategy that set the groundwork for NPR and PBS.

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