In the last 2-3 decades, sod information has become increasingly important for many disciplines to address the conflicting pressure on limited land resources. In addition to farming community, civil engineers and agricultural engineers, environmentalists, urban planners, disaster managers and policy makers also need soil information. Though a wide range of information on soils are available in scattered and unorganized format, the modern day information system of any natural resources requires its location in terms of time and space and exact referencing or geo-referencing of important spots has become very necessary. Therefore, soil information with exact coordinates can be used for developing such systems.
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