利用航片的信息特征进行土壤调查和制图,可以缩短调查时间,增加内容的详尽度,提高图斑界线的精确性。可是国内在荒漠区使用航片调查土壤的实践还比较少。笔者1963年曾在新疆玛纳斯河地区进行土壤调查并用1959年秋拍摄的六万分之一黑白全色 The use of information features of aerial photographs for soil survey and mapping can shorten the investigation time, increase the detailedness of the content and improve the accuracy of the boundary of the patch. However, the practice of using aerial photos to survey soil in desert areas is still relatively small. In 1963, the author conducted a soil survey in the Manas River area of ​​Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and used sixty thousandth of black and white panchromatic photographs taken in the autumn of 1959