BS EN ISO 25177:2019
Soil quality. Field soil description
| Standard number: | BS EN ISO 25177:2019 |
| Pages: | 62 |
| Released: | 2019-10-30 |
| ISBN: | 978 0 580 92332 6 |
| Status: | Standard |
BS EN ISO 25177:2019
This standard BS EN ISO 25177:2019 Soil quality. Field soil description is classified in these ICS categories:
- 13.080.01 Soil quality and pedology in general
This document provides guidance on the description of soil in the field and its environmental context. It is applicable to natural, near-natural, urban and industrial sites. The soil observations and measurements can be made on a project site level, on a plot level, on layer or horizon level and on specific soil constituents.
It also provides guidance on how to describe layers of anthropogenic (artificial) material or layers that were not modified by pedogenic processes in the strict sense and how to describe coarse material of natural or artificial origin.
This document can be used in combination with other publications that provide guidance or requirements regarding specific aspects of soil observations and measurements.
It might not be possible or necessary to record data under all the headings listed in Clauses 4 to 11.
Overall guidance for presentation of information from soil surveys is given in ISOÂ 15903 .
The guidance provided assumes that sampling will be done in accordance with ISOÂ 18400 .