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Soil Mapping of Inaccessible Sites using Remote Sensing and GIS

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Civil Engineering Department, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan

Corresponding author email: tariqawan02@gmail.com

Abstract: Geotechnical investigation in hilly areas for the low-rise projects becomes troublesome and costly
process. Owning the difficulties in mobilization and setting up the drilling equipment on the rolling terrains. The
current study aimed at development of digital soil maps using emerging geographical information systems for a
renowned hilly area in Pakistan. The research work included collection and processing of available geotechnical
data followed by georeferencing and digitization of acquired soil properties. Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW)
and Kriging method of spatial interpolation was applied for preparation of thematic maps of soil class. The
accuracy of maps developed was evaluated using linear regression method in which predicted soil class from
developed maps and actual soil class are compared. Considering the maximum anticipated depth of foundation
for low rise projects thematic maps of soil class were developed up to 20 feet depth with 5 feet interval in using
colour contours. IDW maps gave better representation of soil variation then Kriging because IDW determines the
soil type at unsampled location using linearly weighted method.

Keywords:

Introduction

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 Research Methodology

Study area and data description

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Table 1:

Soil Assigned Soil Assigned

Class Values Class Values

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Results and Discussions

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 Validation and Prediction Accuracy

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Conclusion and Recommendation

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Acknowledgement

References

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