Soil and materials surveys by use of aerial photographs
Subtitle: presented at the thirty-seventh annual meeting, January 6-10, 1958
Series: National Research Council (U.S.). Publication -- 666; Its Bulletin -- 213; Publication (National Research Council (U.S.)) -- no. 666; Bulletin (National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board) -- 213
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Soil surveys; Aerial photography
Description: Paper 1: Describes the engineering soil survey and the research techniques and methods which were applied in the preparation of the engineering oil maps. Paper 2: Covers a statistical method of correlation used in a pilot study conducted in order to make engineering soils data available from a pedological map of Fayette County, KY. Paper 3: Aerial photographs have been used in Maine in the following types of highway location studies: preliminary cost estimates for portions of the interstate system, detailed study of proposed route locations, and relocation studies for secondary roads. Paper 4: Geology, aerial photographic interpretation, and geophysics are described as a research unit for the reconnaissance and exploration of sand and gravel deposits situated in an economically important location to the interstate highway system in North Dakota.
Table of contents: title: The engineering soil survey and its relation to engineering problems; title: An engineering soil survey of Fayette County, Kentucky; title: Airphoto analysis of terrain for highway location studies in Maine; title: Gravel prospecting by use of aerial photographic interpretations.