Characterization of spatial variability of soil physical properties at UTP campus

This paper describes the experimental of the characterization of spatial variability of soil
physical properties at UTP campus. The objective of the experiment are to characterize
spatial structure of soil physical properties under tropical climate in terms of
semivariogram parameters, to map the variation in soil physical properties in UTP
campus,and to evaluate the effect of land use changes on the variability of soil physical
properties. All of the planned project activities and tool required were explained in details
further in this report. The study indicated geostatistical analysis in conjunction with
conventional statistical analysis could reveal spatial variability nature of soil properties
and causes behind the variability. Of significance importance to land management to land
management practices is the finding that the variability of the soil properties are largely
due to topographic features and land disturbances