SPATIAL EVALUATION OF LAND AND SOIL PROPERTIES IN THEEXAMPLE OF NEVŞEHİR PROVINCE, TURKEY

In this study, some land and soil properties were spatially evaluated withthe help of 1/25.000 scaled digital soil maps belonging to Center of Nevşehirprovince in the Central Anatolia Region, Turkey. Land use capability, largesoil groups, soil depths, erosion, slope and spatial distributions of currentland uses were carried out in the research. Arc GIS 10.3.1 software, whichis one of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software, was used forspatial analysis. With a maximum of 262518 da in the study area, VI. classlands. Class I lands cover an area of 247 decares. In terms of large soil groups,regosol and colluvial soils are dominant and the area covered by these soils is450187 decares. The least area was found to be reddish brown soils with 124da. It has been determined that the least area in the depth classes is A class(greater than 150 cm) soils. In the study area, it is the soil with the maximumC class (50-90 cm) depth. When the land was examined in terms of slope, itwas determined that the land with the highest 3rd degree slope (12-20%) wasformed. The research area consists of soil structure that can be exposed to the2nd degree erosion class at most. When the current land uses are examined,it is the garden area with the least usage area in the region and the area itcovers is 3400 decares. It has been observed that the most dry farming areasare located in the study area. It is thought that the results obtained as a resultof the study will be the basis for the agricultural studies to be carried out inCenter of Nevşehir province.