Another name for Soil Survey (q.v.), avoids the confusion with 'survey' meaning 'land survey'

The soil survey map, transformed to a single-purpose map that is directly usable by someone other than the soil surveyor and colleagues

an area of the earth's surface, the characteristics of which embrace all reasonably stable, or predictably cyclic, attributes of the biosphere vertically above and below this area, including thos [..]

(LC): a simple attribute of the land that can be directly measured or estimated in routine survey in any operational sense, including by remote sensing and census as well as by natural resource invent [..]

"the process of assessment of land performance when [the land is] used for specified purposes" (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1985) "all methods t [..]

an evaluation of suitability based on some economic measure of net benefits, should a given LUT be implemented on a given land area.

(LQ): a complex attribute of land which acts in a manner distinct from the actions of other land qualities in its influence on the suitability of land for a specified kind of use; the ability of the l [..]

a set of map delineations designated by a single name, and representing a single legend category.

(LUT): A kind of land use described or defined in a degree of detail greater than that of a major kind of land use. In the context of irrigated agriculture, a land utilization type refers to a crop, c [..]

A major subdivision of rural land use, such as rainfed agriculture, irrigated agriculture, grassland, forestry, recreation, annual crops, perennial crops, swamp rice cultivation, forest plantation, or [..]