FAO Land Cover Classification System (LCCS), CORINE land cover, INSPIRE land use/cover themes, land use capability classification and Land Parcel Identification System LPISS) are common international examples.
Mapping of Morphological structure are performed from General Directorate of Soil and Water surveys including Slope, Erosion and Land Use Capability Classification data.
The slope has major influence on the soil and water of the watershed and thereby influences the land use capability.
Additional file 1: Description of land use capability units in the study area (National Water and Soil Conservation Organisation, 1975).
Additional file 4: Process-based sediment mass (t), percent of total mass and sediment generation rate (t ha -1 ) by land use capability unit.
Slope failure dimensions and bulk density were used to calculate catchment-based sediment mass and generation rates by: (i) failure type, (ii) vegetation type, (iii) slope group, (iv) Land Use Capability unit (LUC), and by (v) catchment.
Regarding the soils' land use capability, the valley floor around Huancayo – mainly consisting of alluvial, fluvial and glacial Quaternary deposits (Instituto de Geología y Minería, 1975) – was considered suitable for the production of annual and biennial crops by the former National Office of Natural Resources Evaluation ONERN (Oficina Nacional de Evaluación de Recursos Naturales, 1981).
Thus, the productivity, the land-use capability (LUC), and the distance from the city center were considered as well as the physical attributes of the land.
Enhanced land-use capability, however, can reduce the vulnerability of the region.
Although many current land use, land capability models and many soil related applications use soil type information, a new global soil type map is not among the objectives of the GSM project.
