Open AccessUsing GIS towards soil mapping of Latifia project/Baghdad, Iraq
Author(s) -
Hisham Ahmed Al – Mashhadani,
N. A. E. AL-Mosawi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/388/1/012084
Subject(s) - series (stratigraphy) , geography , soil series , soil map , cartography , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , geology , soil classification , soil science , soil water , paleontology , geotechnical engineering
A cartographic analysis of the Latifiya area project map was carried out using GIS for an estimated total area of 48001.94 ha, whose coordinates are between 32, 99 90233 60388 north, 44 37219, 44 34 056 east, where a picture of the map was taken by the scanner. The results of the analysis have shown that the highest frequent soil series was DM87 series, with the largest area of 10142.58 ha, with an area of 22.46% and a frequency of 55, while the series MW9 has the smallest area that reached 924.60 hectares with an area of 2.04% at8 appearance Aruqub area reached 6419.89 hectares by 14.21% area of the totalarea, as well as have been identified or soil association units and reached number7 Repetition Soil units associated by a series of DM87 the largest area where the units associated to DW56,DW85, DW33, DW3.