Characterization of spatial variability of soil physical properties at UTP campus

• Main Author: Mohd Azhiim B Razak, Mohd Azhiim
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2009
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/569/1/mohd_azhim_b_razak.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/569/

This paper describes the experimental of the characterization of spatial variability of soil physical properties at UTP campus. The objective of the experiment are to characterize spatial structure of soil physical properties under tropical climate in terms of semivariogram parameters, to map the variation in soil physical properties in UTP campus,and to evaluate the effect of land use changes on the variability of soil physical properties. All of the planned project activities and tool required were explained in details further in this report. The study indicated geostatistical analysis in conjunction with conventional statistical analysis could reveal spatial variability nature of soil properties and causes behind the variability. Of significance importance to land management to land management practices is the finding that the variability of the soil properties are largely due to topographic features and land disturbances