Books, Reports & Special Issues

 

 

 

 

  • A.B. McBratney, and B.M. Whelan (1995). The Potential for Site-specific Management of Cotton Farming Systems. Discussion Paper No 1. 46pp. Co-operative Research Centre for Sustainable Cotton Production, Australian Cotton Research Institute, PO Box 59, Narrabri, NSW 2390.**

The potential application of precision agriculture to sustainable cotton production

 

Presents a quantitative analysis of the soil data described in Publication a1 above. This report contains several new approaches, e.g., continuous soil layer classes, fuzzy land evaluation, and the concept of land versatility.

 

  • A.W. Ward, W.T. Ward, A.B. McBratney and J.J. de Gruijter (1992). MacFUZZY A program for data analysis by generalised fuzzy k–means on the Macintosh. Division of Soils Divisional Report 116, CSIRO Australia, Melbourne. 49 pp. + disk.*

Describes with examples from the earth sciences, the method of generalised fuzzy k-means, a numerical classification technique devised by De Gruijter and McBratney ( Publication e4) and provides a computer program, written in C, for carrying out this procedure.

 

  • A.B. McBratney, S.R. Cattle, J.B. Stewart, P.E. Tolmie, J. Walsh, D.B. Yates, S. Young and K.L. Elton (1991). The Soil Stack: an Interactive Introductory Guide to the Science, Technology, Degradation, Management and Care of Soil. Environmental Education Program, University of Sydney. 40 pp. + 4 disks. **

A manual and 4 disks containing an interactive package for teaching and learning. The package focuses on problems of soil degradation in Australia.

 

  • C.J. Moran, A.B. McBratney and A.J. Koppi (1990). The SOLICON soil imaging system: a description of the software. Division of Soils Divisional Report 110, CSIRO Australia, Melbourne. 134pp.**

Describes a flexible image analysis system developed by the authors for the specific purpose of quantifying soil images, especially images of soil structure., The system software, which runs under UNIX, has its own command language.

 

  • D. McGarry, W.T. Ward and A.B. McBratney (1989). Soil studies in the lower Namoi valley: methods and data. 1: The Edgeroi data set. 2 vols. CSIRO Australia, Division of Soils, Glen Osmond, South Australia. 852 pp. **

Presents the soil, landscape, and vegetation data, in tabular and graphic form, from 227 soil profiles described and measured during a systematic survey of part of the lower namoi valley. One of the most comprehensive soil data sets collected in Australia.