The soil survey map, transformed to a single-purpose map that is directly usable by someone other than the soil surveyor and colleagues

an area of the earth's surface, the characteristics of which embrace all reasonably stable, or predictably cyclic, attributes of the biosphere vertically above and below this area, including thos [..]

(LC): a simple attribute of the land that can be directly measured or estimated in routine survey in any operational sense, including by remote sensing and census as well as by natural resource invent [..]

"the process of assessment of land performance when [the land is] used for specified purposes" (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1985) "all methods t [..]

an evaluation of suitability based on some economic measure of net benefits, should a given LUT be implemented on a given land area.

a set of map delineations designated by a single name, and representing a single legend category.

A major subdivision of rural land use, such as rainfed agriculture, irrigated agriculture, grassland, forestry, recreation, annual crops, perennial crops, swamp rice cultivation, forest plantation, or [..]

"Soil is the collective term used ... for the natural bodies, made up of mineral and organic materials, that cover much of the earth's surface, contain living matter and can support vegetati [..]

of soil is air or shallow water. Its horizontal boundaries are where it grades to deep water or to barren areas of rock or ice. The lower boundary that separates soil from the not-soil underneath is m [..]