Describe the different factors used in each classification system, and discuss how they are used to assess the potential of a particular land area for different uses.
Suitability is always used for specific production e.g. onion production, while capability is used in a broader sense, such as agriculture or urban development. The Land Capability Classification (LCC) System is a global land evaluation ranking that groups’ soils based on their potential for agricultural and other uses. LCC can help determine if land is suitable for certain uses and whether there are risks for degradation. Land capability classification is aimed at predicting the crop production potentials of the land improvement units and the use of the land resources. Land suitability is the ability of a portion of land to allow for the cultivation of crops continuously year in year out. Without careful planning, repeated agricultural use of the same plot of land can cause the soil's quality to diminish. The Land Capability Classification System, LCC for short, was created to help combat this. LCC groups soils based on their suitability for certain uses and risk of deterioration. Suitability level of the six factors: Soil depth (a), Soil texture (b), Soil pH (c), Temperature (d), Rainfall (e) and Slope (f) suitability classes. Land Suitability Analysis for Rice Production: A GIS Based Multi-Criteria Decision Approach.Land capability are subdivisions of capability classes, made on the basis of four dominating limitations, namely, (i) risk of erosion (e), (ii) wetness, drainage or overflow (w), (iii) rooting zone limitations (s), and (iv) climatic limitations. The seven stages of the MCDM-based AHP approach employed in this work are: (i) criterion selection, (ii) rank determination, (iii) pairwise comparison, (iv) weight calculation, (iv) score determination, (vi) weighted overlay analysis, and (vii) accuracy assessment.