Disaggregation of land types using terrain analysis, expert knowledge and gis methods

South African Journal of Plant and Soil

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 123-129

  Van Zijl, George M ^a   Le Roux, Pieter Al ^a   Turner, David P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Digital soil mapping; Digitial elevation model; Soil survey; SoLIM software

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; LAND TYPE; LITHOLOGY; PARENT MATERIAL; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE; SOIL SURVEY; SURVEY; TERRAIN;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84887822662     PISSN: 02571862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02571862.2013.806679     Document Type: Article

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