However, they played an important role in the understanding of soil properties and land use planning, and came later to provide a useful basis for national soil mapping. The geological surveys gave rise to the so-called Quaternary and Petrological Maps, the first one being published 1857. The maps show mineralogy and texture and genesis of the parent material, e.g. texture of glacial till and w...

SSSAJ: Volume 75: Number 3 • May–June 2011 Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 75:1044–1053 Published online 26 Apr. 2011 doi:10.2136/sssaj2010.0002 Received 1 Jan. 2010. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic o...

Dust is a common atmospheric phenomenon in Iran especially in central arid regions.  This severely affects environment as well as resident’s health. Among the results of this phenomenon are Respiratory diseases, bash radiation, accelerated soil erosion, Desertification and degradation of ecosystems. Some dusts are originated from local desert conditions but adjacency to neighboring countries de...

Dust is a common atmospheric phenomenon in Iran especially in central arid regions.  This severely affects environment as well as resident’s health. Among the results of this phenomenon are Respiratory diseases, bash radiation, accelerated soil erosion, Desertification and degradation of ecosystems. Some dusts are originated from local desert conditions but adjacency to neighboring countries de...

nowadays balanced scorecard has a critical role in implementing strategies for many organizations. strategy map as the 3rd generation of bsc by inverting mission and vision into strategic objectives is the linkage between formulating and implementing strategies. however, the methodology of developing strategy maps has many ambiguities. this study with inspiring by other authors and exploring li...

This study explores approaches for wind erosion risk assessment utilising available time-series Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and climate products. We present a simple index and a ruleset based approach to identify wind erosion risk areas across Australian using time-series of ground cover, soil moisture and wind speed. These approaches and data sets were implemented in ...

This study aims to understand the spatial distribution of organic carbon and its sequestration potential in Tunisian soils. Soil organic carbon (SOC) stock was estimated in the 0-30 cm and to 0-100 cm soil depth for Tunisia using maps of soils and of the departments, combined with results from a soil database. The original soil classification was simplified to nine soils. Tunisia contains 24 go...

This paper presents a case study in assessment of erosion hotspots in an Andean watershed. To do this, we made use of an interface called Geospatial Modelling of Soil Erosion (GEMSE): a tool that integrates Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model. Its advantages are: (i) it is independent of any special GIS software used to create maps and t...

Remotely sensed data from satellites are often validated by comparing them against ground-based measurements which usually are relatively sparse. Conventional consistency analysis methods provide information on each data point individually and in relation to its neighbors. In this study, a consistency analysis method based on wavelet-based feature extraction and one-class support vector machine...