Preparation of soil sampling protocols: Sampling techniques and strategies

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:5974467

Mason, B J

The document serves as a companion document to the Soil Sampling Quality Assurance User's Guide, Second Edition. The two documents together provide methods, techniques, and procedures for designing a variety of soil measurement programs and associated Quality Assurance Program Plans, implementing those programs and then analyzing, interpreting, and presenting resultant data. Properly designed sampling plans based upon the laws of probability provide a means of making decisions that have a sound and defensible basis. The document summarizes various statistical and geostatistical concepts and procedures pertaining to the design, implementation, and data interpretation of appropriate sampling designs. Soil sampling takes place either in the surface layer (0-6 in.) or at greater depths. The methods of sampling each may be different but make use of two basic techniques. Samples can either be collected with some form of core sampling or auger device, or they may be collected by use of excavations or trenches.

• Research Organization: Nevada Univ., Las Vegas, NV (United States). Environmental Research Center
• OSTI ID: 5974467
• Report Number(s): PB-92-220532/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540220* -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
AROMATICS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
CONTAMINATION
DATA
DECISION MAKING
IMPLEMENTATION
INFORMATION
KRIGING
LAND POLLUTION
LAWS
MANAGEMENT
MATHEMATICS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PLANNING
POLLUTION
PROBABILITY
QUALITY ASSURANCE
SAMPLING
SOILS
SOLID WASTES
STATISTICAL DATA
STATISTICS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES