Digital soil resource inventories: Status and prospects

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 296-301

  Rossiter, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data availability; Digital information; Soil inventories; SOTER methodology; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY; METHODOLOGY; SOIL SURVEY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 7944220177     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/SUM2004258     Document Type: Review

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