Using the NRCS National Soils Information System (NASIS) to provide soil hydraulic properties for engineering applications

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1715-1718

  Rawls, Walter J ^a   Nemes, A ^a,b   Pachepsky, Yakov A ^c   Saxton, Keith E ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Environmental Microbiology and Food Safety Laboratory   (United States)

^d Saxton Engineering and Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Pedotransfer functions; Soil data bases; Soil hydraulic properties; Soil properties

Indexed keywords

PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SOIL DATA BASES; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL PROPERTIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEDIMENTS;

SOILS;

DATA SET; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PEDON; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36248988659     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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