Browsing by Subject "Petrography"

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    Towards regionalisation of soils in Northern Thailand and consequences for mapping approaches and upscaling procedures
    (2008) Schuler, Ulrich
    The purpose of this study was to identify the key factors of soil formation and distribution in North-western Thailand in order to enable predictive mapping. Further objectives were to investigate different soil mapping approaches, regarding their suitability for specific areas and scales and to assess the potential of local (soil) knowledge for soil mapping and land use planning. In order to cover the essential petrographic inventory of North-western Thailand three different petrographic areas were selected. The investigated topics were petrographic diversity, spatial organisation of soils and variability of their physical and chemical properties, as well as local soil knowledge of farmers in the respective areas. In addition thematic maps were generated comprising geology, WRB soil groups, and different soil properties. Soil mapping was carried out by using four different methods, the intensive mapping approach, maximum likelihood method, randomised grid cell approach, as well as elicitation of local knowledge. The intensive mapping approach comprised transect investigations, investigation points of the randomised grid cell approach, and additional investigation points, which were selected for areas with increased soil and petrographic variability. All maps based on the intensive mapping approach contained the highest sampling point density and maximum amount of information. These maps were used as a reference for the other mapping approaches applied here.