| Land Capability |
assesses the limitations to land use imposed by the characteristics if the land and specifies management options |
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| Land Cover |
represents the physical surface of the earth. It includes combinations of natural features such as vegetation, soil, exposed rocks, water bodies as well as anthropogenic (man-made) features such as agriculture and the built environment. Land cover classes can generally be identified by characteristic patterns using remote sensing. |
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| Land Management Practice |
refers to the means by which the land management objective is achieved, that is the ‘how’ of land use (eg cultivation practices, cell grazing or broad acre grazing) |
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| Land use |
refers to the purpose to which land is committed, that what the land manager wants to achieve (eg grazing on native or improved pastures) |
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| Land Suitability |
describes the fitness of a given area/type of land for a specified land use |
