APPLICATION OF SPACE IMAGES STANDARDIZATION METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SOIL COVER OF ARABLE LANDS IN KRASNODAR REGION
The results of application of space images standardization method for identification of soil cover of arable lands are described. The album of standards is presented, examples of soils identification for key plots are presented. It is shown that colour and tone of space images of studied objects serve for allocation of landscape contours while texture/structure, the form and the size of contours allow to classify images by forms of relief and to speak about methods to identify soils. The following basic features of a soil cover identified on space pictures which form low-contrast combinations on meso- and micro-relief are allocated: spottiness of chernozems typical and meadow-chernozemic soils; variations of chernozems typical and chernozems typical eroded at low rate; variations of chernozems typical, chernozems typical eroded at low rate and meadow-chernozemic soils