Soil Surveyor: Fettercairn Data Set

Synopsis: A CAL module for soil science which simulates a soil mapping assignment and is designed to develop skills in soils mapping. It allows the student to examine many facts of a landscape and simulate fieldwork techniques. It demonstrates that there are definable relationships between land forms, parent material, climate, vegetation, and soil, and between soil attributes; that these relationships enable us to predict the unseen from the seen; that to make wise decisions about land use and management, information has to be dug out of the landscape; decisions are often made on the basis of predictions about the pattern of the soil cover and the response of soils to management. Approximately 15 hours of teaching material.
Series: Mertal Courseware
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Multimedia; Computer program. Floppy disk. PC Windows version only.
Year of production: 1995
Availability: Sale; 1996 sale: £45.00 (inclusive)
Notes: Available to UK higher education institutions.
Documentation: Accompanying print material.
Uses: Environmental science, soil science, land use and agricultural/horticultural science.
Subjects: Environmental science
Keywords: computer-assisted learning; soils; Teaching & Learning Technology Programme

Name: University of Aberdeen, Centre for CBL in Land Use and Environmental Sciences (CLUES)
Email: clues@abdn.ac.uk
Web: http://www.clues/abdn.ac.uk:8080/ External site opens in new window
Phone: 01224 273755
Address: King’s College
Aberdeen
AB24 5UA
Notes: Contact: John Milne (for LUCIE progject (7/97)

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