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Rational use and protection of soils in market conditions requires adequate application of new scientific and methodological approaches. One of these systems-analytical methods of soil inventory organization is combination of traditional ground methods with technologies of geographic information systems (GIS) based on wide use of aerospace images of different resolutions. As a result of the research, a method of soil mapping using ArcGIS software was developed that is practically accessible to a wide audience of GIS users. Using GIS technology, a digital soil map based on scanned soil maps of Zhanakush rural district of Chingirlau district in West Kazakhstan region was developed.
Салихов et al. (Fri,) studied this question.