The Automated Land Evaluation System (ALES)

The Automated Land Evaluation System, or ALES (pronounced "ay-less"), is a computer program that allows land evaluators to build expert systems to evaluate land according to the method presented in the Food and Agriculture Organization "Framework for Land Evaluation". It is intended for use in project or regional scale land evaluation.

ALES was developed at Cornell University from 1986-1996 and is still distributed by Cornell. It is supported by the program author, D G Rossiter, who moved to ITC Enschede in the Netherlands in 1997. Although ALES is a DOS program which has not been updated since 1996, it is still a rich expert-system environment and continues in use as part of the land evaluator's toolkit. As long as you want to use it, we will support it.

• The ALES Software
• Introduction to ALES
• Background and philosophy
• Published studies using ALES
• Land Evaluation lecture notes
• Contact information:
  • Technical and scientific questions: e-mail
  • Administrative questions: e-mail

    Postal address:
    
    Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
    Administrative Suite
    235 Emerson Hall
    Cornell University
    Ithaca, NY 14853
    Phone: +1 (607)-255-1410; Fax: +1 (607)-255-2644

Last Updated: 2007_194

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